Category: discovery

Giant Flying Insect Found on Walmart in Arkansas Turns out to Be Surviving Jurassic-Era Relic

A bug expert found a huge winged insect—misidentified as your average dragonfly—on the side of an Arkansas Walmart building years ago. The flying bug was, actually, far from average and turned out to be a Jurassic-era relic, the first of its kind found in the state. Prior to this epiphany, the specimen was mounted and forgotten for almost…


This Western ‘Cliff Palace’ in America Was Built 750 Years Ago—to Help Defend Against These Fierce Tribes

Imagine entering a grand sandstone palace, erected high up in the alcove of a cliff in the western U.S. This dream-like place really does exist. Built way back in the 12th century, there is a vast dwelling made up of almost 200 angular and circle-shaped rooms, like something straight out of a “Game of Thrones”…


Researchers Reveal Hidden Corridor Inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza—It Was Used for This Purpose

A hidden corridor 30 feet (approx. 9 meters) long has been discovered close to the main entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza and this could lead to further findings, Egyptian antiquities officials said on Thursday, March 2. The discovery within the pyramid, the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still…


Metal Detectorist Uncovers Hoard of Gold, Jewels, Silver Coins Buried in Viking Gravesite 800 Years Ago

The traveler deposited the stash of gold, jewels, and silver coins near the Viking burial mounds in Haithabu some 800 years ago. Whoever that traveler was, and for whatever reason, he or she never returned to collect their treasure. Just recently, this hoard of precious items has again seen the light of day after it…


Explorers Set Foot in Unreal Cave Never Before Seen Deep in Jungles of Vietnam: ‘A Different World’

The unsavvy adventurer might easily miss the treasures hidden in the remote, mountainous jungles located deep in central Vietnam. Yet, if you know where to look, just meters below these timeless limestone crags lie wonders surpassing our wildest dreams. Carved by a vast network of underground streams over thousands of years, a massive, sprawling cave…


Explorers Set Foot in Unreal Cave Hitherto Unseen Deep in Jungles of Vietnam: ‘A Different World’

The unsavvy adventurer might easily miss the treasures hidden in the remote, mountainous jungles located deep in central Vietnam. Yet, if you know where to look, just meters below these timeless limestone crags lie wonders surpassing our wildest dreams. Carved by a vast network of underground streams over thousands of years, a massive, sprawling cave…


Never-Before-Seen VIDEO of Sunken Titanic Released—Marks First Time Humans Feast Eyes on Wreck

The crew of human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin drank in the spectacle of a shipwreck’s haunting bow, recording the historic moment with their vehicle’s underwater video camera. The three researchers were the first humans to lay eyes on the “unsinkable” passenger liner, RMS Titanic, since her ill-fated voyage in 1912. Their 1986 expedition captured video near…


Cave Sweet Cave? Why Does Half of This Modern Town in Australia Live Underground—With Own Church, Casino?

Deep in the South Australian outback, there lies a town where some fifty percent of its people live underground. The reason? It’s not due to some nuclear catastrophe or a mass case of agoraphobia. Rather, intense summer heat—and winter cold—is what led most of its approximately 2,000 inhabitants to carve out a subterranean home. A curious…


Man Spends 24 Hours With an 88-Year-Old, the Last Man Living Alone in Hidden Forest Village

A man who hiked for hours to spend a day with an elderly man, living alone in a remote Japanese mountain village, has shared his unique experience to keep the story of this long-deserted village alive. Japan enthusiast Norm Nakamura, 38, is a video creator, boat captain, and pilot in training who learned Japanese in…


This Perfectly Preserved Praying Mantis Trapped in Fossilized Amber Is 30 Million Years Old

A praying mantis, encased in amber and frozen in time since Earth’s ancient Paleogene Period, sparked a flurry of bids amongst collectors after its modern discovery in the Dominican Republic. Some 30 million years ago, when giant rhinos and primitive three-toed horses roamed the earth, sticky resin leaking out of a single tree trapped a…