5,000-Year-Old Penguin ‘Mummies’ Found in Antarctica
Penguin mummies dating back thousands of years have been discovered in Antarctica.
An ornithologist from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Steven Emslie, has studied penguins in Antarctica for over 15 years. Over the years, he's discovered penguin remains from abandoned penguin colonies, tracing clues about climate changes.
In recent years, Emslie says...
Fairies: Nothing Like American Myths, Says Irish Farmer of Ancient Land
In Ireland, stories about the fairies persist today. However, they aren't like the fairies depicted in America at all. ?♂️ ?♀️
Rather than looking like the winged creatures of myth, Irish farmer Pat Noone says faires look like people. He's seen them often playing music, drinking, and dancing.
"The fairies ...
Child-eating Namahage of Japan Prepare COVID-19 Safety Measures for New Year
Every year at the New Year, fearsome monstrous mountain demons called Namahage visit children in Japan's Akita Prefecture on the Oga Peninsula.
There, at the northern tip of Japan's main island of Honshu, people continue the ancient customs. Although the tradition nearly died out, it has seen a rise in...
Scientists On How Trees Talk Through an Ancient ‘Otherworld’ Network
Trees talk to each other deep underground. It's an idea still relatively new to science but familiar to ancient beliefs.
Today, scientists are confirming that forests act like one big superorganism. Below the ground, fungal highways connect the trees. Through this highway, the oldest trees nurture their young. What's more,...
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson doesn’t believe Trump’s answers about UFOs
Controversial Fox News's Tucker Carlson appeared on the History Channel's Ancient Aliens program on November 22 to discuss UFOs and his prior July interview with President Trump on the matter. Carlson says he doesn't know what to believe about UFOs himself but also says, "he knows when he...
Ancient Dogs that Sing Like Whales Rediscovered in the Wild
Wild dogs among those thought to be "the most ancient domestic dogs on earth" have been rediscovered in Papua New Guinea after half a century.
These dogs, dubbed New Guinea Singing Dogs, have a yodeling howl that some think sounds like singing. According to others, their singing is comparable to...
Study finds that inbreeding and other demographic problems alone could have wiped out Neanderthals
Humans may not have been responsible for the ultimate extinction of the Neanderthals according to a new study by Dutch researchers who wanted to know if inbreeding and other demographic problems alone could have wiped them out.
Many different viable theories have been put forward by scientists to explain the...
World’s oldest chess piece could be a rook dating back to the 7th century
The game of chess has been around for a very long time, both fascinating and frustrating players of every age for 1,500 years. Now, one of the oldest chess pieces in history may have been found by archaeologists in the Middle East.
Chess can trace its origins to India in...
Mass extinction saw an invasion of giant-headed Komodo Dragon-like Triassic predators
Today, we marvel at creatures such as crocodiles and Komodo Dragons, but they would be even more fearsome if they had giant heads. And it turns out that giant-headed reptiles once roamed the Earth.
In the aftermath of mass extinction, apex reptilian predators with disproportionately large heads inherited dominion over...
Researchers discover new 91-million-year-old giant shark species in Kansas
Deep in the heart of northern Kansas, researchers excavated farmland that used to be under the ocean and ended up finding a brand new species of shark that lurked beneath the surface around 91 million years ago.
During the middle to the late Cretaceous period, the region of the United...