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Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a bank vault owned by the French statesman's son ...

The scales on crocodiles' heads are very different from the skin appendages of other animals and even distinct from the scales on the rest of their bodies ...

Jean Charles Blais had no idea that his studio in southern France was hiding a Roman funerary inscription dating to the first or second century C.E.

Conservationists hope the love story between Boris and Svetlaya might indicate a new, successful chapter in tiger repopulation efforts ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish riches that sustained Elizabeth I's empire ...

A new exhibition in London examines the relationship between the three Italian Renaissance artists, who came together in Florence in 1504 ...

An unusual approach to spotting tiny asteroids uses James Webb Space Telescope data in a boost for planetary defense research ...

Following the murder in 44 B.C.E., Brutus minted the gold aureus to promote his own image and celebrate his military victories ...

Instead of crunching mathematical calculations, GenCast was trained on four decades of historical weather data to produce an array of 15-day forecasts ...

Biologists say mating, climate change or simply being confused might have driven the creature to swim great distances, between Colombia and Zanzibar ...