Call it a UFO: an unidentified floating object. Beachcombers were baffled over a creepy, “skeleton-like” figure with fins that washed ashore in the UK, as seen in viral photos making waves online.

Paula and Dave Regan discovered the unsettling object while walking on a beach in Kent, England, on March 10 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor ...

In this new study, an international team of researchers combined several analytical methods to show that the supposed skeleton of Schwarzer Jonas clearly belonged to Schinderhannes and that the ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had ...

A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal Date: March 11, 2025 Source: Yale University Summary: For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that ...

The skeleton had mostly human-like features, but it also had the body proportions, jawbone and pitted occipital bone at the back of the skull that were characteristic of Neanderthals. At the time ...

Burial under the altar is reserved for only the most honored individuals. This is how the enigmatic skeleton was found, still wrapped in its eternal tools of torture, by a team of archaeologists ...

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A couple made an unsettling discovery during their stroll down a beach in England. Paula and Dave Regan were in the seaside town of Margate on March 10 when they spotted a mermaid-like skeletal ...

But a new study of the most complete skeleton of the species known to exist has answered many questions about the enigmatic critter — first described in 1883 by famed paleontologist Edward Drinker ...

See life-sized casts, fossils, and hands-on specimens like Eoraptor and Giganotosaurus. Visit the Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Kimberley Bos, of The Netherlands, is embraced after her run during fourth run at the skeleton world ...