The 240 million-year-old animal — nicknamed the "Chinese dragon" — belongs to the species Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a reptile that used its remarkably long neck to ambush unsuspecting prey ...

I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare ...

An investigation at the Vienna National Library has turned up two hitherto unknown fragments of texts in Old Frisian. According to the Fryske Academy, the first fragment is part of a 15th-century ...

With a vague sense of ethnic pride, a vaguer sense that I owed it to my great-grandfather and a complete ignorance of the Frisian language, I attended the 50th and final Frisian worship service in … ...

2.2 million-year-old teeth reveal secrets of human relatives found in a South African cave; Two new crocodiles discovered in the Caribbean; Giant mosasaur discovered in Mississippi ...

The petite rooms in the Old Frisian House illustrate life during the 18th and 19th centuries with a five-foot-seven-inch bed, a double-sided fireplace/oven between the kitchen and living room, and ...

The Dutch sport of dyke jumping – or ‘fierljeppen‘ – can trace its roots back to medieval times, when Frisian warriors used their long spears to cross waterways, experts have discovered. A study of ...

At 22, Dutch pole-jumper Sytse Bokma is getting to the top of his game -- literally. But on a muggy summer's afternoon in rural northern Netherlands, things just weren't going his way. Time after ...