Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and whales. Any giant animal could have been used as evidence for the ...

"Given the octopus' remarkable intelligence, adaptability, and diverse range of survival strategies, it wouldn't be the most ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

The history of the Lucchese crime family doesn’t go back quite as far as that of the Genovese and Gambino families. While it was originally formed by members of the Morello gang who had split off, it ...

The discovery that Neanderthals and not Homo sapiens likely created the artwork is challenging longstanding beliefs that ...

The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...

When the Five Families were first recognized, what’s now the Bonanno family was known as the Maranzano family. After Salvatore Maranzano was murdered in 1931, Lucky Luciano awarded leadership of ...

The third man phenomenon is most often seen in people facing extreme peril in which they felt a presence that helped lead ...

Researchers are stunned by the recent discovery of a pair of Viking longhouses in Iceland. Most astonishingly, the estimated age of one of the structures pushes back previous estimates of the date of ...

Scientists have just carried out an extensive study on two mysterious plant fossils discovered in Utah – but it’s left them with more questions than answers. Only two known specimens of Othniophyton ...

In 2003, the bizarre “pizza bomber” case in Erie, Pennsylvania, captured the country’s attention. A pizzeria employee named Brian Wells had walked into a bank with a bomb strapped around his neck, ...