City officials in India have hired a team of animal impersonators to frighten marauding macaque monkeys away from G20 summit venues. The so-called 'monkey wallahs' can impersonate the wailing calls…
Archaeologists have unearthed an astonishing tomb and four small shrines dating back to the Ramesside Period 3,000 years ago at an archaeological site in Egypt. The Dutch-Italian team working at…
Sea snail shells discovered during excavation work in Lebanon had been taken there to be used as jewellery some 45,000 years ago. The fact that the items were so used…
Tiny baby is born apparently still sleeping inside his amniotic sac to the delight of medical staff. The remarkable birth captured on video was filmed in the maternity ward of…
A new study has revealed that only hunter-gatherers who sought refuge in Spain and Portugal survived the last Ice Age 30,000 years ago. Using new DNA analysis of prehistoric human…
Jerusalem has returned centuries-old scrolls after they were removed by an Israeli rescue team after an earthquake-wrecked synagogue was destroyed in Turkey. The ancient scrolls, known as the Book of…
Scientists have named a tiny endangered catfish species after Indian locals after they helped them find it in wells and underground water channels. The team of German and Indian researchers…
An international team of researchers has collected 50,000-year-old ice samples from a depth of 2,651 feet in Antarctica. The extracted ice core samples will reportedly aid the team of experts…
A team of astronomers have discovered eight of the hottest stars in the universe whose blazing surfaces alone reach more than 100,000 centigrade. The researchers reportedly discovered the very hot…
An astonished Icelandic football club has told how it was left more than GBP 1.1 million by a fan in his will. Follower Guomundar Eggert Oskarsson left the sum to…