The longtime New Yorker writer’s 1956 book is a remarkable literary account of a brutal, bloody sport, offering wryly funny ...

It’s not a large exhibition, but it’s a versatile one, covering medieval bookmaking technology and science, the social lives ...

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A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

Curators think the volume's corners and spine are bound in the skin of William Corder, an infamous criminal who was convicted ...

The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.

A science museum in the city looks back at the history of feeding children in schools and reminds us how fraught the efforts ...

A new book explores Pennsylvania’s conservation legacy, which began in the 1800s and still shapes today’s environmental ...

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The fossil, according to Shelton, shows signs of preservation that give it a pearl-like iridescence, a feature rarely found in fossils this old. These types of fossils are called ammolite in ...

As for her age at death, "it's already clear that she is over a year old because her milk tusks have already appeared," he added. Both elephants and mammoths have early milk tusks that later fall out.

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found. It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original ...