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Scientists Feared the World’s Smallest Snake Had Gone Extinct. They Just Found It Again
When fully grown, the Barbados threadsnake is only three to four inches long—shorter than many earthworms
Archaeologists Discover Mysterious Medieval Knight Buried Beneath an Ice Cream Parlor in Poland
The well-preserved skeleton was buried under a rare limestone tombstone, which suggests the individual may have been an important member of Gdańsk society during the Middle Ages
The U.S. Is Withdrawing From UNESCO for the Third Time in the Agency’s 80-Year History
The country previously left the agency for two brief stints—once from 1984 to 2003 and again from 2017 to 2023. The newly announced decision will take effect by the end of 2026
Octopuses Fall for the Rubber Hand Illusion, Just Like Humans, Pointing to a Sense of Body Ownership
The trick that plays with awareness of one’s own limb appeared to fool all six of the cephalopods tested in a series of experiments
‘Robo-Bunnies’ Are the Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida
Scientists are experimenting with robotic rabbits in hopes of luring the destructive snakes out of hiding so they can be euthanized
Germany’s Stunning Fairytale Castles Added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Built under the rule of Ludwig II, the grand palace complexes in Bavaria were among 26 new sites granted world heritage status
Cut Marks on Animal Bones Suggest Neanderthal Groups Had Their Own Unique Culinary Traditions
Neanderthals in two nearby caves used different techniques when butchering animal carcasses in what is now Israel, according to a new paper
Man Arrested for Trying to Break the Glass Protecting the Stone of Destiny in Scotland
The symbolic artifact, which has been used for centuries during the coronations of Scottish and English monarchs, is on display at the Perth Museum
Archaeologists Find 300-Year-Old Shipwreck in What Used to Be ‘One of the Baddest Pirate Lairs on Earth’
Pirates attacked the Portuguese warship, named the “Nossa Senhora do Cabo,” and made off with many of the treasures the ship was transporting from India to Portugal
Dinosaurs Gathered to Perform Mating Dances With Kicks and Spins at This Site in Colorado—and You Can Go See It for Yourself
Paleontologists have discovered what appears to be one of the largest dinosaur courtship arenas in the world, just 15 miles west of Denver
Underwater Archaeologists Were Looking for a Lost Shipwreck in Wisconsin. They Stumbled Upon a Different Vessel Instead
Researchers think they have located the final resting place of the “L.W. Crane,” a wooden side-wheel steam ship that caught fire and sank in the Fox River in 1880
The U.S. Army Is Getting Rid of Most of Its Ceremonial Horse Units
Senior military leaders at five forts will have one year to transfer, adopt out or donate the horses under their command
Preserved Blood Vessels Discovered in a Rib Bone From the World’s Largest T. Rex Could Shed Light on How Dinosaurs Healed
Scotty, a specimen unearthed in Canada, was probably injured in a fight, then died several months later
A California Gull Hitched a Ride on a Garbage Truck and Took an 80-Mile Journey to a Compost Facility. Then It Happened Again
GPS tracking data showed the bird zooming across bridges and interstates at 60 miles per hour on two occasions in 2018
The Largest Section of the Beloved Sycamore Gap Tree Is Going on Display in England
The iconic tree was illegally chopped down in September 2023, but its memory will live on in the form of a new art installation that invites visitors to touch—and even embrace—a piece of its trunk
A Paleontologist Matched Two Halves of the Same Fossil Stored at Different Museums—and Discovered a New Species
Meet Sphenodraco scandentis, a tree-dwelling, lizard-like reptile that roamed around with the dinosaurs during the Late Jurassic period roughly 145 million years ago
Neanderthals May Have Been Running a Sophisticated ‘Fat Factory’ in Germany 125,000 Years Ago
New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease inside
‘Nothing Short of Magical’: Scientists Discover a Dinosaur Bone Nearly 800 Feet Beneath a Parking Lot at a Denver Museum
The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the oldest and deepest dinosaur fossil found in Denver
Lost Bow of American Warship Found Eight Decades After It Was Blown Off by a Japanese Torpedo in World War II
After the attack, crews sailed the USS “New Orleans” backwards for more than 1,000 miles across the Pacific. Since then, the location of the vessel’s bow has been a mystery
Something Strange Is Happening to Tomatoes Growing on the Galápagos Islands
Scientists say wild tomato plants on the archipelago’s western islands are experiencing “reverse evolution” and reverting back to ancestral traits
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