New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in DNA sequencing are helping researchers resolve a ...

The Winter Olympics skeleton competition is a thrilling head-first sliding sport. Athletes start by running about 30 meters to gain speed, then leap onto their sleds, reaching speeds over 80 mph.

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The rockhead poacher is a little fish with a big pit in its head. The divot may be like a drum, making sound that rises above ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a ...

“It looks like the fish has a large chunk of its skull missing—as though somebody took a little ice cream scoop and took a ...