What to know about skeleton at the Winter Olympics: Hurtling head first down an icy chute on a sled

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Rare dinosaur skeleton exhibit going under hammer at Christie's in London

Millions of years ago, Spike would have roamed what were — back then at least — the abundant wetlands and coastal plains of western North America. Lately, however, a swanky showroom in central London ...
IGN

How Skeleton Crew Introduces Suburbs to Star Wars

Warning: this article contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew! You can check out IGN's review of the first two episodes. We may be nearing the end of 2024, but Disney ...
Mashable

The Home Depot's 12-foot skeleton is on sale for the first time ever, but there's a catch

It's been six years since the Home Depot launched its 12-foot skeleton yard decoration to viral, meme-ified acclaim. And for the past five, "Skelly" has been impossible to find in stock around ...
WWLTV

See what’s new at the Skeleton House this year

NEW ORLEANS — The Skeleton House is drawing big crowds, once again, in Uptown New Orleans. Old favorites have returned alongside many new arrivals, all sporting the Halloween attraction’s signature ...
Scientific American

Brains Remember Stories Differently Based on How They Were Told

Tell me about what you had for dinner last night. There are different ways you could fill in the details of that story. You could give perceptual descriptions of how your food looked and tasted. Or ...
CNN

An unusual quartz-tipped tool killed a man 12,000 years ago. Scientists are puzzling over who wielded it

A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice Age and contains the oldest human mitochondrial DNA found in the region. It ...
New York Post

Skelly the 12-foot skeleton decoration is back at Home Depot — and this year brings frightening friends

Summer may be in full swing, but spooky season is nigh for Home Depot shoppers. The home improvement mega store’s highly anticipated Halloween drop comes Monday, including a 12-foot skeleton sculpture ...
NJ.com

Home Depot is restocking its 12-foot skeleton for 2025. Here’s when to get it before it sells out

Halloween might be on October 31, but Home Depot is kicking off spooky season early this year. Every summer, Home Depot drops its Halloween collection, and this year’s release is bigger and better ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Paleontologist Matched Two Halves of the Same Fossil Stored at Different Museums—and Discovered a New Species

Likely in the 1930s, someone split a flat fossil slab in half, leaving the skeleton on one side and the skeleton's outline on the other. Natural History Museum Paleontologist Victor Beccari was ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Jar of Fossil Bones Long Stored at a Museum Led Scientists to Discover a Goblin-Like Lizard From 76 Million Years Ago

Bolg amondol raids an oviraptorosaur dinosaur nest in an artistic reconstruction of how the species may have looked and behaved. Cullen Townsend A container of bones at the Natural History Museum of ...
Live Science

How do archaeologists figure out the sex of a skeleton?

Archaeologists can estimate a person's sex with 95% accuracy, but many experts are focused on what can be learned about humans outside the male/female gender binary. When you purchase through links on ...