A previously unknown fossilised snail species has been discovered by archaeologists working on a railway construction site in Florida, and they have named it Carychium floridanum in honour of the…
A shocked farmer has revealed how he dug up a deadly British hand grenade as he harvested his crop of asparagus in Germany. The grenade - a Mills bomb No.…
The Russian man who kept a house of horrors with 26 bodies of dead little girls that he had dug up and mummified has been denied a bid for freedom…
This intact 3,000-year-old artefact that was unearthed from an ancient sacrificial pit in China has been compared to the much-loved British cartoon Peppa Pig just months after an Angry Birds…
A nursing mum has given her breast milk to this adorable baby hare after her husband rescued it from a building site where it had been accidentally dug up. The…
A rare Roman gravestone almost ended up in a rubbish tip after it was dug up during building work and dumped in a pile of rubble ready to be taken…
A crystal-clear Turkish lake that has been around since the melting of the ice age has been dug up by treasure hunters who left behind a muddy pond in its…
The body of a murdered 12-year-old girl - whose head was found in a plastic bag on a beach 37 years ago - has been exhumed after a breakthrough in…