A pygmy legged dragon from Kyrgyzstan, ungulate whales and a live granny rug.

Cryptozoology is a field of knowledge devoted to searching for and studying animals whose existence is disputed or not proven by science. Such creatures are called cryptids. There’s also cryptobotany ...

Beginning in the middle of the 12th century, the Christian kingdoms began their advance, only to run across yet another Berber dynasty in the form of the Almohads. After their loss at Las Navas de ...

There was a showdown between Vercingetorix’s Gauls and Caesar’s Romans in the Battle of Alesia in 52 BC. Caesar’s influence peaked after the Romans’ triumph, when Gaul capitulated. The Battle of ...

The Merovingian dynasty was the first Frankish line of kings who ruled in Western Europe from AD 476 to 752. Dynasty of Frankish kings descending from Merovech, the Merovingians ruled over Gaul until ...

The Battle of Crécy was a significant military engagement that occurred on August 26, 1346, during the Hundred Years' War between England and France. It was fought near the town of Crécy-en-Ponthieu ...

Robert Koch put up a fight against the "invisible enemy," that is, tuberculosis. An unheralded country doctor made a significant contribution to medical knowledge at a time when physicians were ...

The public’s perception of black cats has always been negative due to their association with evil and superstition, witchcraft, and curses. In Ancient Egypt, people tended to avoid black cats.

When Charlemagne died in 814, his son, Louis the Pious, succeeded him on the throne. After his death, the Treaty of Verdun confirmed the division of the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms.

Without the Moon, our planet would be nowhere near as conducive to life. If the Moon did not exist, the first cells and organisms could possibly have developed much later or even never. The Moon seems ...