St. Patrick may have been an Irish clergyman, but his death anniversary — observed annually on March 17 —  is celebrated worldwide, even in cities and towns with few or no ethni...

A team of Swedish scientists has successfully extracted and reconstructed the world's oldest DNA from the tooth of a Siberian mammoth, which roamed Earth over a million years ag...

The 1984 discovery of the Whydah Galley — the only fully verified and authenticated pirate shipwreck of the Golden Age of Piracy (1650-1720) ever found — has yielded an enormous...