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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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...