A Basement Renovation Project Led to the Archaeological Discovery of a Lifetime: the Deruyuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people. We live cheek by jowl with undiscovered worlds. Sometimes the barriers that separate us are thick, sometimes they’re …

“Hell Pigs” is a great name for a band though. We’re lowkey grateful this guy is extinct. Dinosaurs might seem like the most monstrous-looking prehistoric animals, but best believe Mother Nature cooked up all sorts of other terrifying creatures. The example …

The 50-million-year-old slab of limestone suggests that fish have been swimming in unison for far longer than previously realized The prehistoric school seems to adhere to the laws of attraction and repulsion, with members maintaining enough distance …

Akhenaten, Egypt’s first and only monotheistic Pharaoh, has intrigued Egyptologists for centuries. Has the Egyptian Mummy Project finally found his mummy? The Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile across from the ancient city of Thebes, is …

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The well-preserved tracks were left in the silt by a species of bird that would have made even today’s ostriches seem tame. Standing up to 3 meters in height and sporting razor-sharp claws as well as a beak capable of piercing a human’s skull, terror …