Articles by Sarah Laskow

Expecting to find 5,000 camps and other sites, researchers have documented 42,500.

Fissures appear when groundwater is sucked away.

He influenced everything from Surrealism to the X-Men.

Once used to assassinate a Bulgarian dissident, the disguised firearm eventually became a trope of spy films.

It's the only such burial ever found in Roman Britain.

This 110-pound otter also had the teeth of a badger.

According to an apocryphal story, British ships defined the country by shooting cannonballs off the sides of their ships.

It took 34 years for the finder to track down the sender.

They were actually searching for God.

The skull dates back to the 12th or 13th century.

Two competing theories could both be true: Termites and plants both contribute to the circles' creation.

A home renovation uncovered a schoolgirl's bad grades from decades ago.

The National Mall must be protected.

Florida locals captured footage of a very large alligator at a local nature preserve.

Horace-Bénédict de Saussure wanted to climb a mountain and mark the sky's hue accurately.

The archivist at Pacifica Radio rediscovered a recording of MLK giving a speech in London.

It is, apparently, a substantial and unusual collection.

They spent decades on it.

Work on a hydropower gate revealed the statue's head.

A new paper details a natural explanation for a star's strange behavior.

Here lies Duchie, a good rabbit.

He scared his neighbor.

They were simple-looking white canisters.

Also, marmalade, pickle, and mustard jars.