'Schinderhannes' is linked to at least 211 crimes. The bones of his partner 'Schwarzer Jonas' remain missing. By Laura Baisas Published Mar 24, 2025 1:15 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

In an idyllic corner of an English field, archaeologists uncovered a pit filled with skeletons that bore the signs of violent ...

Researchers proved that a misidentified skeleton from the 19 th century actually belongs to infamous outlaw Johannes Bückler, also known as Schinderhannes. Genealogical research found a living ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prehistoric human ...

A new, wide-ranging exploration of human remains casts doubt on a long-standing theory in archaeology known as the Kurgan hypothesis -- which, among other claims, suggests that humans first ...

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For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...