Turns out Scotland’s Isle of Skye was once home to an enormous flying reptile with a wingspan about a wide as your bed is long. The pterosaur, also known as a pterodactyl, had a wingspan of more than 8 feet.
A diver in Israel found a 900-year-old Crusader sword on the Carmel Beach seafloor in Israel. The sword is encrusted in marine life but scientists say it is “preserved in perfect condition”.
We know what Roman chariots looked like from the many painting and drawings that exist from the Roman era. But last month, archaeologists discovered a new intact Roman chariot buried in the ground near the ancient city of Pompeii.
“Daddy, what’s this?” 4-year-old Lily Wilder from Barry, South Wales, UK took her first step as a scientist this week when she spotted a perfectly preserved dinosaur footprint while walking on the beach.
The inside of an Agate stone found in the Rio Grande do Sul region of Brazil, surprised its finder because of its eerie resemblance to Cookie Monster. The Agate stone contains brilliant blue quartz crystals with the wide eyes and big smile of the beloved Cookie Monster character from Sesame Street.
A team of scientists recently unearthed the fossilized remains of a tiny jaw bone and claw in the United States. 3D scans of the fragments revealed they belonged to tyrannosaurs – the cousins of T. rex.
Archaeologists in Indonesia have found what is believed to be the oldest known cave art. The cave painting shows a pig, likely an adult male Sulawesi warty pig. The painting is at least 45,500 years old!
The near perfectly preserved woolly rhino was discovered in August 2020 in permafrost deposits by the river Tirekhtyakh in the Republic of Sakha in Arctic Yakutia. It is the best preserved juvenile woolly rhino every found in Yakutia.
The folks over at Caherconnell Fort created this outstanding infographic that features 10 of the ultimate archaeological discoveries throughout human history.
We know little about lies beneath the vast expanse of ice in Antarctica but researchers this week announced two findings that boggle the mind – analysis of satellite imagery reveals a hidden world underneath Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica that contains a canyon as deep and twice as long as the Grand Canyon and…
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