Fishermen find ancient Roman shipwreck off coast of Sicily
Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was an underwater rock…
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admin Extinct toad from the ice age discovered at Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits
Scientists have discovered an extinct amphibian from the ice age at Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits. The fossils shed…
‘A moment in time’: Fossil footprints shed new light on the extinct ‘Nutcracker Man’
New evidence suggests the extinct hominin Nutcracker Man was nearly 2 feet taller and dozens of pounds heavier than once…
An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
Two teams are set to explore dramatically different theories about what happened to Amelia Earhart. Each believes it’s closing in…
Glimpse what life was like for survivors of the Pompeii disaster
A new docuseries and ongoing research are revealing that survivors charted a fresh start after an eruption devastated the ancient…
Bronze Age ‘shaman,’ previously assumed to be a male metalworker, was actually a woman
Bronze Age remains once thought to belong to a revered male metalworker are in fact female, new DNA analysis has…
Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness,…
Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota, nicknamed Gus, has become the world’s most expensive fossil sold at auction.
A chance encounter led to one of the largest T. rexes ever found. Now, it could be ‘lost to science’
A large T. rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Gus’ is on track to break auction records, and highlight one of paleontology’s biggest…
Fossils of an ancient sea creature are the oldest evidence of right-handedness
Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in modern animals that…