Researchers have announced that the sized camel carvings etched into the side of rocks in a Saudi Arabian desert - initially believed to be 2,000 years old - actually date back as far as 6,000BC. The 21 monumental reliefs at the Camel Site in Al Jawf in north-western Saudi Arabia…
A Turkish man furious at being ripped off when he found a black rock inside a bag of coal he bought for GBP 4 was amazed when he discovered it was actually a meteorite blackened by entry into the earth that was worth an estimated GBP 260,000. Yakup Ermis, whose…
A new study has found that tiger sharks are not completely solitary predators as they actually have social preferences, picking and choosing which sharks to 'hang out with', and for how long. Scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (UM) and the Institute of…
An astonished woman discovered that a cat in a tree was actually a crow pretending to be a cat in order to keep another feline away from its nest. Dentist Sevgi Dutagaci, 42, heard a cat meow from a tree near her workplace in the district of Mentese in the…
This NASA image shows what appear to be rivers of gold in Peru but is actually the damage left behind from illegal mining. The picture was taken by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on 24th December last year. However, it has recently started to make the headlines after…
A man who suffered from shortness of breath and was thought to have COVID-19 instead had a half a walnut lodged in his lung all along. Hasan Dursun Akduman, 65, said he began to experience shortness of breath after drinking walnut water to help his cholesterol levels and went to…
A shocked archaeologist raised the alarm when he discovered that a stone edifice being used as a seat by drivers at a local taxi stand was actually a 2000-year-old Roman sarcophagus. The previously unidentified Roman-period sarcophagus was beside the road in the gardens of the Iznik Museum in the Turkish…
A trove of ancient clay figures found off the coast of Israel in the 1970s and thought to be from a single shipwreck over 2,500 years ago were actually accumulated over centuries in a series of Phoenician offerings to the Gods. In one of the earliest finds of marine archaeology,…
Visitors to a 'natural health spa' in Iceland have been warned by local power plant managers that a series of warm water pools are actually filled with dangerous waste water. They have been told to ignore social media messages promoting the pools' health benefits and to stay away, because alongside…
This mass of matted fur is actually a living dog left with open wounds, a damaged leg, festering ears as well as several tumours and a slipped disc. The dog's condition was so appalling, animal activists doubted that vets could do anything for her, but now just a month later,…