Once the pride of North Africa, the Barbary lion was thought to be extinct in the wild – but could it still survive today? In ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Narwhals have fascinated and confounded humans for centuries. The Peabody Essex Museum is diving into the mystery, history and science of the tusked “unicorns of the sea.” ...

Jackson's former friend and lawyer, John Mason, revealed in his new memoir, Crazy Lucky: Remarkable Stories from Inside the ...

Oct. 26—One of the most bizarre unsolved homicides in Northumberland County turns 120 years old next month. For more than a century, the mystery of the Shamokin Head has intrigued residents ...

Update: The carved emerald just sold for $6.2 million at auction, over double the original estimate. The original story on ...

The Murder Mystery Linking a Bird Specimen at the National Museum of Natural History to the Mysterious Death of an Arctic Explorer. In 1871, a naturalist aboard the U.S.S. Polaris collected ...

Reflections. The story of the 1883 Vasse "gunfire" reminds us that WA, despite its geographic isolation, remains connected to the wider world.Krakatoa's eruption was a stark demonstration of how ...

In 1885 Gilbert, along with Frank Burkey, Alfred Millard, W. F. Curley and W. V. Rooker, established the Omaha Daily World as an independent rather than politically directed newspaper.

Kirsten Menger-Anderson's time-travel mystery, 'The Expert of Subtle Revisions,' explores the way history is affected by how it is told and who does the telling.

Submitted by Anna Smith, a Three Rivers history and mystery lover.