A distinguished Victorian botanist, Auguste Glaziou’s hoax went undiscovered for 24 years.

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What killed off the Neanderthals? Many theories have been floated, from climate change and disease to being outcompeted and ...

There is often more that can be discovered by diving into old data.

The rings of Uranus were only discovered in 1977 and the outer rings, named for the Greek letters μ and ν (mu and nu), have ...

Voted for by the public, the image beat out 40 other images of animals caught just at the right, or wrong moment.

Across the pond, the oldest river in Europe is thought to be the Meuse, which flows 950 kilometers (590 miles) through three ...

The Moon illusion baffled the great philosophers of ancient Greece and the most brilliant minds of the Scientific Revolution ...

Found just a little over 400 kilometers (250 miles) off the coast of Mozambique, the island of Madagascar is not only the ...

But new research suggests something more fundamental may also be at play: the shape of the human skull itself. The rest of ...