In fact, their poop piles are so dense that they show up on satellite images. And the guano stains aren’t just in the spots ...

One of Egypt’s most iconic reminders of the Old Kingdom is the Great Sphinx, which was carved right out of the Giza Plateau’s limestone bedrock, a collection of ancient seabed sediments that ...

Human vision is imperfect. Our eyes do not always represent the world exactly as it is. We have blind spots. We see after-images. We are tricked by optical illusions. But some of these imperfections ...

Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

There’s a bit of a mystery surrounding obesity. Even though it’s a risk factor for a whole host of health problems, it also seems to offer some mortality benefits. For example, obese individuals ...

What has hairy feet, legs dotted with eggs, and a mouth loaded with tentacles like a Sarlacc from Star Wars? That’s how researchers from the University of British Columbia describe seven such ...

City pigeons have been around since Neanderthals roamed Europe. They served as a valuable food source back then, whereas now they’re decried as a messy nuisance. In fact, some cities have imposed ...

More than 5,000 years ago, a royal woman called Meretneith (also written as Merneith), lived in ancient Egypt. She was possibly the daughter of Djer, the third king of the First Dynasty, a period when ...

Just like us, our cells can get old. But while these senescent cells stop dividing, they linger on, which is one reason they’re sometimes called “zombie cells.” Zombie cells aren’t functionally inert, ...

Imagine you’re suddenly transported to the wilderness, hundreds of miles from civilization, with nothing other than what you’re carrying with you right now. The way you view your personal effects ...

If you’ve ever lost some pocket change, it’s possible it could one day resurface as part of an archaeological study. Archaeologists began excavating beneath the walled garden of the Palazzo della ...

Speech contains a lot of information in it besides just the content of your words. Pauses, tone, emphasis, and more can convey a lot of meaning on their own. But according to a new paper published in ...