A skeleton which could belong to d'Artagnan, the French soldier who inspired the novel "The Three Musketeers," has been discovered in a church in the Dutch city where he died centuries ago, local ...

Children at a primary school in eastern France found a strange new attraction next to their playground this week: a skeleton sitting upright, peeking out the top of a circular pit. It is just the ...

A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the ...

AT FIRST, THE skeleton in grave 134 seemed unremarkable. In 2018, archaeologists in Germany descended upon the ancient town of Nida, about a mile and a half outside Frankfurt. The archaeologists ...

For those not familiar with the sport of skeleton, where the solo sledder lies flat on their stomach, head first, Akwasi Frimpong sums it up: "You're on a cookie sheet sled and it's like 'dude, good ...

In the space for three days in February, Matt Weston finished first in the high-stakes sport of skeleton (both in the men’s title and with mixed team partner Tabitha Stoecker), making him the first ...

There is a certain brand of madness reserved for those who choose to hurtle down a winding corridor of jagged ice with nothing but a thin sheet of fiberglass between ...

Olympic Skeleton is a high adrenaline sliding event which is a combination of speed, navigational skill, and pure daredevil courage. Though the discipline is similar to luge and bobsleigh with ...

Big investment in coaches and kit – £5.8m in the last cycle – has paid off despite lack of facilities and snow at home According to the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, 3,500 people have ...

Skeleton star Matt Weston wrote his name into British Olympic history by becoming the first athlete to win two gold medals at the same Winter Games After Weston won Team GB’s first medal of this ...

Matt Weston has won the first Team GB medal of the Winter Olympics with a gold in the men's skeleton. Weston, the current skeleton world champion, had the overnight lead, and produced a track record ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Matt Weston doesn't always win. It only seems that way. And at the Milan Cortina Olympics, the 28-year-old slider from Britain left no doubt -- he's the best skeleton racer ...