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2,700-year-old shields and helmet from ancient kingdom...
The martial artifacts found at the temple complex were likely offerings that an ancient kingdom made to their chief god.
9,000-year-old rock art of people swimming in what's now...
This series of paintings, found inside a cave in the Sahara, shows a pair of swimmers.
Why can't you suffocate by holding your breath?
The human body has a number of mechanisms that prevent you from holding your breath until you suffocate.
Space photo of the week: Entangled galaxies form cosmic...
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge"...
Did Roman gladiators really fight to the death?
Being a Roman gladiator was a bloody business, but did all gladiators really fight to the death?
South African rock art of mystery creature 'strangely flexed...
Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of...
Antechinus: The tiny marsupials where males have sex until...
All species in the antechinus genus have the same frenzied mating system, where males have sex until they die from organ failure,...
3 remarkable spiders: A vegetarian, a vampire and a predator...
In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species...
