The remains of SM UC-61, a World War I German minelaying submarine (also known as a U-boat) is resurfacing on the coast…
Archaeologists dug up a lot of cool stuff in 2018, but they dug up a lot of weird, disgusting, and disturbing stuff as…
Egyptian authorities are not very happy with a video taken by Danish photographer Andreas Hvid, who climbed what…
Long before the two deadliest pandemics in history—the Plague of Justinian and the Black Plague—an ancient strain of…
This year taught us more about distant planets and our own world, about the ways we’re influencing our environment and…
One of the most intriguing items on display at the Queen Mary Pathology Museum—the skull belonging to British assassin…
A museum might wow you with all of its fossil specimens on display, but that’s often just a small part of what’s really…
A group of students last month was involved with the discovery of a stone artifact nearly 6,000 years old while on a…
Hurricane Michael, an unprecedented storm that slammed into the Florida Panhandle at Category 4 strength, may well be…
The first farmers to arrive in Europe from the Middle East brought their dogs along with them, effectively wiping out…
It’s September 30th, 2018, and the theme of the last week was memory. Not just at Gizmodo, where we wrapped up Memory…
The tech and science world has had a very interesting week: Researchers have discovered what happens when you give our…
The European Union passed its disastrous Copyright Directive this week, including amended versions of its onerous…
DNA evidence appears to have revealed an ancient parrot-breeding operation in the southwestern United States, a new…
In the 1990s, archeologists in Mexico City unearthed a 500-year-old skeleton near an ancient Aztec temple—a victim of…
A missing Russian Imperial Navy cruiser said to contain 200 tons of gold bullion worth an estimated $133 billion has…
A certain Chinese noblewoman—potentially Lady Xia, grandmother to the first emperor of China—had a menagerie buried…
It’s no secret that modern humans, with our fuel-burning cars, massive ranching and agriculture practices, and penchant…
An international team of researchers is claiming to have discovered the world’s oldest footprints. Dating back a…
To the victor go the spoils, or in some cases, the bodies of a vanquished enemy, as the discovery of remnants from an…
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