Climbing enthusiasts in China have criticised the building of an escalator complete with cooling mist that allows visitors to reach the mountaintop in minutes without breaking a sweat. The 1,100-ft-long…
A nearly complete fossil of a woodpecker dating back 200,000 years has been discovered in Argentina. It was discovered in a sandstone quarry near San Pedro, about 170 kilometres (105…
This footage shows a tusk from an extinct, half-a-million-year-old giant elephant at an archaeological dig site in southern Israel after a visitor stumbled across it by accident. Experts have said…
Swiss scientists are testing a new COVID-19 vaccine which could lead to complete protection against different strains of the virus. The new treatment is a vector virus, like Johnson &…
The most complete embryos belonging to a duckbilled herbivorous dinosaur ever found have been unearthed by palaeontologists in China. The scientists - who published their findings in the journal BMC…
It was a double celebration complete with birthday gifts for two members of the Gorillas family at a Spanish zoo recently. Visitors watched as a birthday pair and other members…
A new species of dinosaur has been discovered near the Pyrenees and its fossilised remains have been deemed to be the most complete in Europe. The excavation, which was overseen…
An eccentric Swiss ufologist who became known all over the world after he built a gigantic UFO landing pad in the Argentinian desert has passed away at the age of…
Gravediggers preparing the ground for a new cemetery in Mexico were shocked to discover the plots were already in use as they contained the 10,000-year-old remains of a mammoth. The…
Researchers have found the near-complete skeleton of a new species of dinosaur with a unique weapon resembling an Aztec 'macuahuitl' war club on its tail. The find was made in…