Researchers learned why Earth’s largest ape went extinct more than 200,000 years ...

Researchers learned why Earth’s largest ape went extinct more than 200,000 years ...

Gigantopithecus blacki are known to be the largest ever apes who lived on our planet. They died out between 295,000 and 215,000......

Thirty-eight years ago, the world watched a 13-year-old girl die in agony

Thirty-eight years ago, the world watched a 13-year-old girl die in agony

The eruption of the volcano Nevada del Ruiz in Colombia on 13 November 1985 destroyed the town Armero and 13 other villages.......

An American helped Soviet Russia mine gold for industrialization (part 2)

An American helped Soviet Russia mine gold for industrialization (part 2)

Read part 1 here.  One of them was John Dickinson "Jack" Littlepage. From 1928 to 1937 he was employed to......

An American helped Soviet Russia mine gold for industrialization (part 1)

An American helped Soviet Russia mine gold for industrialization (part 1)

One of them was John Dickinson "Jack" Littlepage. From 1928 to 1937 he was employed to coordinate the gold mining......

Scientists announced the start of a new epoch in Earth’s history

Scientists announced the start of a new epoch in Earth’s history

Over the last 11,700 years, we all lived in the Holocene epoch, a relatively stable period that enabled human civilization to......

The world’s oldest wooden structure discovered in Zambia

The world’s oldest wooden structure discovered in Zambia

A joint team from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University, both in the United Kingdom, has discovered that almost......

How the Muscovites betrayed the Ukrainian Cossacks to create the Russian Empire

How the Muscovites betrayed the Ukrainian Cossacks to create the Russian Empire

Tsarist historiography justifies the annexation of territories inhabited by Ukrainians - the majority of the old Kievan Rus -......

Why India removed Darwinism and Muslims from textbooks

Why India removed Darwinism and Muslims from textbooks

The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has removed references to the 19th century English naturalist......

Human ancestors were almost extinct 900,000 years ago

Human ancestors were almost extinct 900,000 years ago

Before growing to more than 8 billion people as of early September 2023, the human population nearly perished some 900,000 years......

Why did ancient Greeks compete naked at Olympic Games?

Why did ancient Greeks compete naked at Olympic Games?

It is hard to imagine participants in the Olympic Games or other sporting events competing in the nude today. That would defy the......

Resident of Russia Far East tried to set Lenin's Mausoleum on fire with Molotov ...

Resident of Russia Far East tried to set Lenin's Mausoleum on fire with Molotov ...

The pyramid-shaped structure where the body of Vladimir Ulyanov alias Lenin, the Bolshevik leader and first head of the Soviet......

Archaeologists discover ancient Maya city in Mexican jungle

Archaeologists discover ancient Maya city in Mexican jungle

The ruins of a previously unknown city of the Maya culture were found in late June 2023 by a team of archeologists deep inside......