DENVER – Maine has supervolcanoes. Wait, Maine has volcanoes? Yes, and their eruptions could have been among the biggest ever…
Read MorePrisoners of ‘ingenious’ 1962 Alcatraz escape could have survived
If they had timed their escape just right, three prisoners who slipped out of Alcatraz more than 50 years ago…
Read More540,000-year-old shell carvings may be human ancestor’s oldest art
The ancient, big-bodied relatives of modern-day humans not only ate freshwater shellfish, but engraved their shells and used them as…
Read More
Scientists find 800,000-year-old footprints in England
LONDON – They were a British family on a day out — almost a million years ago. Archaeologists announced Friday…
Read More112-million-year-old dinosaur ‘chase’ remade in 3D
About 112 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod dinosaur traversed some intertidal flats near what is now Glen Rose, Texas.…
Read MoreLooters caught ‘red-handed’ in attempted robbery of Dead Sea artifacts
On Sunday Israeli authorities indicted alleged antiquities robbers who had been caught searching for Dead Sea scrolls in the Judean…
Read More
Massive 5,000-year-old stone monument revealed in Israel
A lunar-crescent-shaped stone monument that dates back around 5,000 years has been identified in Israel. Located about 8 miles northwest…
Read More
Nine unopened Dead Sea Scrolls found
Nine newfound penny-sized pieces of parchment belonging to the Dead Sea Scrolls laid unopened for nearly six decades before they…
Read More
