Deep beneath Southern Africa and the Pacific sit enormous blobs. The African anomaly is bigger than the entirety of the U.S. It sits approximately 1,800 miles deep and 497 miles tall. In the last decade, scientists have leveraged modern technology to get a better image
Texas’ Hill Country just logged another extreme weather headline after a string of late-May thunderstorms pushed creeks beyond their banks and sent water rushing into limestone bluffs west of San Antonio. Hydrologists rank the region among America’s most flash-flood-prone corridors – a peril amplified by
In a remarkable turn of events, sand dredging operations in the Madura Strait, an Indian Ocean channel between Java and Madura, uncovered over 6,000 fossil specimens from a submerged river valley, including two fragments of Homo erectus skulls. This groundbreaking discovery signifies the first recovery
Researchers reported in 2025 that they had discovered what is now thought to be the oldest complete human fingerprint in the world. It was discovered on a small granite pebble that was stained red ochre at the San Lázaro rock shelter near Segovia, Spain, and
For the first time in nearly six decades, Americans can examine the government’s raw files on Dr. King’s killing. On July 21, 2025, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard publicly released over 230,000 pages of documents from the FBI and other agencies. This unprecedented trove
Archaeologists in west-central Poland have discovered two massive triangular mounds, each stretching roughly 650 feet and rising 13 feet high, during a routine archaeological survey of Chlapowski Landscape Park in Wyskoć. Notes from Poland reported that these structures are at least 5,500 years old, making them
Beneath the sweeping vistas of the Grand Canyon, archaeologists have identified more than 4,300 cultural sites, though less than five percent of the park’s vast 1.2 million acres have been systematically surveyed. Scattered across sun-baked rimrock and water-smoothed sandbars, projectile points shimmer beneath desert varnish.
Not all churches announce themselves with steeples and bells. Some sleep beneath centuries of soil, waiting for the right eyes and tools to uncover them. That's precisely what happened in the ancient city of Artaxata, near modern-day Artashat in Armenia. There, archaeologists from the National
An enormous asteroid struck the Atlantic margin 35 million years ago, leaving a huge scar beneath the present-day Chesapeake Bay. This massive impact crater, which is about 25 miles across and covered in sedimentary layers, was not discovered until the 1990s, which put our knowledge
It appeared that the child had been expecting us," said Jesús Bahamonde, the archaeological coordinator at Cálidda, in an interview with the Associated Press. What is this bone-chilling statement referring to? In June 2025, a routine construction project in Lima, Peru, made headlines. Workers laying gas
