This massive ring was buried during one of Britain's most turbulent decades.

A century after they were discovered, they're finally getting some appreciation.

Neolithic people, not glaciers, moved the Altar Stone -- the six-ton central sandstone megalith at Stonehenge -- from northeast Scotland to Salisbury Plain, according to a new study led by archaeologists from Curtin University and Sheffield Hallam University.

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Paleontologists have confirmed that Praearcturus gigas, a creature that prowled shallow waters during the Devonian period, 415 million years ago, is the largest scorpion ever found.

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Britain in the 1960s liked to think of itself as a country moving forward. The postwar recovery was well underway, consumer culture was beginning to bloom, and cities across the country were being promoted as symbols of a new, modern age. Behind that image, in the back streets of Manchester, families were living in conditions […]