3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (513+ words) Brigid Lynch was walking through a redwood forest in the San Mateo County hills when she noticed something unusual, half-submerged in the flowing water of a creek: a big smooth object that didn’t look like any of the other rocks....

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (724+ words) A new study put numbers to a longstanding imbalance in science: Many of the mammals discovered in poorer countries are still being physically archived in richer ones. The official record of biodiversity helps determine who has access to knowledge, research…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (653+ words) Deep in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, what appears to be an ordinary aspen grove is actually a single enormous organism. Known as Pando, the sprawling colony of quaking aspens is connected by one underground root system and is widely regarded…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (341+ words) A Pennsylvania family found a tooth from a megalodon, a prehistoric shark, in Sea Isle City this month, but how it got there remains a mystery. Above, megalodon teeth at the 2025 Sharks Tooth Festival in Florida. While finding a megalodon…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (487+ words) Bo Bowers was searching for shells with his father when he spotted something unusual wedged between rocks. Experts confirm the four-inch fossilized tooth belonged to the extinct giant shark, calling it one of fewer than five such finds ever documented…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (578+ words) An 11-year-old boy on a family vacation in New Jersey has uncovered a remarkably rare piece of prehistoric history. Bo Bowers was exploring the beach in Sea Isle City with his father, Michael, when the pair noticed something unusual wedged…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1302+ words) Andew Stowe holds a rare Thylacine tiger that sold at auction after being found at a car boot sale(Image: © SWNS) The 'one of a kind' discovery of the rare Thylacine mounted head, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, has…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (203+ words) It was called Purussaurus, and it was a beast. In the wetlands of prehistoric Colombia, there was once a fearsome 4,000-pound, 23-foot-long relative of the crocodile with a bite that could probably chomp through a car. And it needed it,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (673+ words) Anderson Taylor, an 11-year-old from Cambridge, Illinois, just became the youngest male museum curator in the world. According to The Smithsonian, the Guinness World Record was officially awarded to him after he opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in his…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (435+ words) Mike Bowers and his 11-year-old son, Bo, found a rare megalodon tooth while vacationing in Sea Isle City, N.J. The fossilized shark tooth, confirmed by experts, was likely deposited during beach replenishment project using offshore sand Megalodon teeth are extremely rare…...