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Antarctica recently yielded an extinct species of penguins that would have towered above the vast majority of humans. Shudder.

Marathon walking was all the rage among city-dwellers, and kicked off sporting traditions we still enjoy today.

Allow us to introduce you to a smattering of unsavory characters whose stunning acts of self-preservation made serious waves the 19th and 20th centuries.

In Malaysia, Brazil and the U.S., female politicians are making headlines. We've rounded up the juiciest news.

Told as a child that she wasn’t talented at math, Maryam Mirzakhani just made history.

The media seems to be overlooking the implications of two mega-centenarian eels and their obviously magical well.

Academic research is far more cutthroat than many in the public realize.

Reports claim Islamic State militants have buried women and children alive as part of their mass slaughter of the Yazidi ethnic minority.