A researcher in Canada has discovered the oldest non-marine crab ever which also happens to be the most complete fossil of a crab ever discovered because it was trapped in…
A new species of ‘indestructible’ water bear has been found fossilised in a chunk of amber dating back 16 million years. Tardigrades, also known as water bears and moss piglets,…
A new study has found that all living snakes evolved from just a handful of species that survived the mass extinction event 66-million-years ago caused by a giant asteroid impact…
A new world record for the most expensive falcon ever sold has been set at a Saudi auction after this US white Gyrfalcon fetched nearly half a million dollars. The…
This beautiful pastry chef earns over 1 million GBP per month through her intricately shaped and beautifully decorated baked goods - despite admitting that many of them are not even…
Experts have unearthed 73 fossilised dinosaur eggs on a university campus from a species that was an ancestor of today's birds from the Cretaceous period 85 million years ago. The…
Germany has acquired two long-lost bronze horse sculptures worth millions that once stood on the terrace of Adolf Hitler's office at the Berlin chancellery before being looted by the Red…
Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of fish that lived 95 million years ago. Palaeontologists from the Institute of Geology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) found the…
A golden jug worth over GBP 1 million that the French King Louis XV gave to his mistress is to be sold at auction. An exceptional goldsmith and silversmith collection…
These jewels that belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte’s daughter have been sold at auction in Geneva for GBP 1.17 million. This year France marked 200 years since Napoleon Bonaparte’s death and…