History

Are legends of mermaids and mermen based on something real? If so, stories dating back to the first writings are nothing like the Little Mermaid.  Sinde 1988, more than 16,000 people have vanished in a triangular area, the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." The missing person rate is twice the national average, with...

A strange alien-looking creature spreading across the world's oceans is practically immortal. It's Turritopsis dohrnii, the "immortal jellyfish" that can avoid death when stressed. In a manner that's similar to a butterfly reverting to a caterpillar, the jellyfish reverts to its coral-like polyp stage. Then, it goes on to become a jellyfish again,...

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...

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,...

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...

Archaeologists made a fascinating find in Norway recently by uncovering not just one ancient Viking boat grave, but two. And the mysterious bit is that the man and the woman in the double grave were buried 100 years apart. Vikings often buried important members of their society inside boat graves,...

Of all the possible ways the Neanderthals may have gone extinct, it turns out that it may have been as simple as a common childhood affliction that ultimately spelled their doom. Illness is part of being human, no matter how much we don't like it. It helps build up our...

A team of researchers from Yamagata University, along with IBM researchers, has found 143 new Nazca Lines in Peru with the help of A.I. technology. One small geoglyph of a 'humanoid' was found using A.I technology alone for the first time. Among these never-before-seen formations are some strange and...