The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Ohio Thrift Store isn’t just a second-hand shop; it’s a 30,000-square-foot archaeological expedition where the artifacts of modern American life await rediscovery by savvy explorers with sharp eyes ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

D azzling octopuses, creepy deep-sea anglerfish, cusk eels, and crustaceans are just some of the deep-sea creatures that have ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

A roadside stop to photograph rock formations for a biology lesson unexpectedly turns into a powerful real-world example of ...

From race and IQ to sex and gender, Herman Pontzer's new book Adaptable is an ambitious and enjoyable exploration of how understanding ourselves better can help us bridge divides ...

With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it looked like a bizarre ...

The suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson made the request in a court filing this week Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also appears ...

The RSPCA is appealing for information after the horrific discovery of a dead dog, dumped in a canal in Wolverhampton in full view of passersby. The chestnut brown bulldog-type dog, thought to be ...