The legendary robbers Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas were executed by guillotine in Mainz in 1803. In 1805, the first ...

Schinderhannes is a nickname for Johannes Bückler, a criminal who was born sometime in 1779 in Germany, to a family of ...

Department of Anatomy researcher Professor Siân Halcrow is collaborating with two biological anthropology colleagues from the ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

Starring Ellen Pompeo ("Grey's Anatomy"), who is also an executive producer, the limited drama series depicts the saga of ...

Since 70% of the skeleton was recovered, scientists at the Cruzy Museum are examining its growth patterns, anatomy, and ...

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...

Hulu's "Good American Family" is a new series about a couple and their adopted daughter with dwarfism. Is it a true story?

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery ...

But a new study of the most complete skeleton of the species known to exist has answered many questions about the enigmatic critter — first described in 1883 by famed paleontologist Edward Drinker ...