A French World War I mine has been spotted floating in the shallow waters of a river in a Romanian beauty spot. Naval Forces rushed to the scene at the…
A massive cache of more than 20,000 tonnes of World War II high explosives and chemical weapons has been removed from a mine shaft in Germany. The huge stash was…
Camera footage shows a rare Siberian tiger suspected of killing a critically endangered Amur leopard strolling down a road near a mining area. The endangered animal, also known as the…
A huge diamond unearthed in Russia is said to be one of the largest ever discovered in Europe. The 390.7 carat whopper was found by the huge mining complex Alrosa…
A perfectly preserved child's shoe unearthed from a 2,000-year-old Iron Age mine has been hailed by archaeologists as a first step in cracking the era's social history, The simple shoe…
Astonished archaeologists have unearthed a 700,000-year-old fossilised armadillo arm during an excavation at a concrete manufacturer's mine. The arm - found in Argentina - is almost three feet long by…
German and Austrian palaeontologists have reconstructed an 80-million-year-old dinosaur that was probably a slow-moving, hard-of-hearing loner. Struthiosaurus austriacus was up to eight metres (26 feet) tall, sluggish, had poor hearing…
These images taken by divers show a long-lost Russian submarine that was sunk by Nazi mine in 1944 and it has now been discovered in the Gulf of Finland. The…
This is the moment Chinese officials detonate a half-tonne naval mine left behind from World War II after leaving it untouched for decades directly beneath a busy shipping lane. Authorities…
This is the moment cops find an illegal mine hidden under a kitchen hob as dozens of men climb out from inside with some of them saying they had been…