Discoveries

A 1850 year old coin bearing the zodiac sign of Cancer was discovered off the coast of Haifa, Israel! The coin was likely minted in Alexandria, Egypt, and is the…

NASA has discovered warm pits on the Moon, with temperatures hovering around 63F (17C)! The pits are connected to caves, which may provide ideal shelter for future lunar missions. https://www.pcmag.com/news/nasa-discovers-warm-pits-on-the-moon

A 170 carat pink diamond has been found in Angola, possibly being the largest diamond of its kind in 300 years! https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/lulo-rose-pink-diamond-angola-intl-hnk/index.html

The Mars Perseverance rover has taken a photograph of what appears to be a stringy object in the Jezero crater! While the object may very well be a piece of…

100 million year old dinosaur prints were discovered by accident at a restaurant in Leshan, Sichuan province, China! The foot prints were of two sauropods from the Jurassic period! https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/china-leshan-dinosaur-footprint-restaurant-scn-intl-hnk/index.html

Just days after showing the world dazzling new high resolution photos of distant galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope has detected water and clouds in the atmosphere of the distant…

Scientists at NASA discovered after analyzing the data from the 2020 OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that flew to asteroid Bennu, that it’s composition is like stepping into a pit of plastic balls!…

Researchers in China have discovered that fossils from the Cambrian era show signs of ancient vertebrates with gills, which eventually evolved into jaws! https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/re-analysis-of-a-fossil-finds-its-from-the-earliest-vertebrate-branch/

Pushing the envelope of particle physics, scientists at CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider, have announced discovery of 3 new exotic particles that offers clues to the “strong force”…

A new species of water lily has been discovered in the London Royal Botanic Gardens after 177 years! The largest of its kind, Victoria Boliviana, can be found in Bolivia…

A new furry species of crab has been discovered in Australia! https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/this-unique-fluffy-crab-looks-like-a-stuffed-toy-viral-pic-may-leave-you-surprised-101656675102508.html

A 30,000 year old baby mammoth mummy has been discovered in the Yukon territory, Canada. Scientists believe this is the most complete wooly mammoth discovered in North America to date!…

The USS Samuel Roberts, a U.S. Navy Destroyer Escort, which sank in the Phillippine Sea during Word War II battling the Japanese Imperial Navy has been found. The shipwreck is…

Archeologists in Israel have discovered fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls bearing biblical texts from the Judean desert! The Dead Sea Scrolls were first found 70 years ago, and the…

Scientists have taken the first ever photo of a glow in the dark shark, known as the Kitefin shark, off the coast of New Zealand! The sharks are the largest…

Science Fact: Astronomers have discovered a 10 billion year old “super” Earth, about 50% larger than our own home planet! The exoplanet is one of many “super” Earths discovered in…

As climate change accelerates, more and more ancient discoveries are unearthed around the globe. This time, a well preserved woolly rhino was found in the melting permafrost of Siberian Russia!…

2020 is not over yet… while the world got some fun with metallic monoliths popping up around the globe, a giant head sculpture has washed up on the shores of…

Time travel 57,000 years: gold miners in Canada’s Yukon province discovered a nearly perfectly in tact female wolf in melting permafrost! Due to global climate change and permafrost melting around…

Earthlings have humor! A month after a “mysterious” metallic monolith was discovered in the high deserts of Utah, some 87 other copy-cat monolith pranks have appeared around the world. Most…