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Child Naturalist Discovers a Giant New Stick Insect Then Co-Authors the Paper and Names the Bug
By Ebed de Rosary
In March 2021, Davis Marthin Damaledo set out on foot accompanied by his father, Dantje, to pursue his childhood fascination with...
Explorers Think They’ve Found Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Airplane After Using Undersea Sonar
The mystery behind the disappearance of Amelia Earhart over the Pacific Ocean has fascinated people for years. But after a recent deep-sea sonar survey,...
1,000 Manatees Converge on Florida State Park to Keep Warm in Record-Breaking Sighting
Those are not rocks you see in this beautiful turquoise water. They aren't fish either; as incredible as it sounds, those are manatees.
At Blue...
Good News in History, February 1
60 years ago today, the British Invasion arrived in the US after The Beatles reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with I Want...
Dozens of Strange 12-Sided Objects from Roman Times Have Been Found—No One Knows What They’re For
Across Europe, but particularly in Britain where residents love a weekend out with a metal detector, dozens of 'dodecahedrons' from the Roman Empire have...
Cicadas Are Coming: Rare ‘Dual Emergence’ Could Awaken a Trillion Bugs of 2 Species – First Time in 221 yrs
No one alive today will see it again—the convergence of two cicada broods that will practically shake the Midwest with their chirping.
The appearance of...
Good News in History, January 23
80 years ago today, the classic film Casablanca premiered on screens across the US. Beloved for the onscreen chemistry between the two lead actors,...
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Cities Hidden in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Another ancient and lost city has been identified by archaeologists working with LiDAR in the Amazon Rainforest—with this most recent society dating as far...
Elton John Just Achieved EGOT Status with Emmy Win–Only 19 People Have Done it in History
It's not referring to a tropical disease to say that someone has an EGOT. It means they've got a mantlepiece at home where stand...
Protecting The Great Wall of China From Erosion, Lichen Soil Crust Shields Monument from Weather Damage
For centuries, soldiers stood guard along the Great Wall of China, defending the heartland of the North China Plain from nomadic invaders like the...
These 385 Million-year-old Tree Roots Look Just Like Ours, and Tell a Tale Just Like Ours
Trees were one of the oldest dominant life forms on Earth, but the most important component of a tree, the roots, are currently shrouded...
NASA Turns Light into Sound Frequency Creating a Milky Way Symphony (LISTEN)
A collaboration between NASA and musicians has seen a photograph of the Milky Way from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory turned into a musical piece...
A Forgotten Masterpiece Was Hanging Above a French Woman’s Hot Plate–Now, it’s Heading to the Louvre
A few years ago, the art world was abuzz with news that a painting by the 13th-century master Cimabue was discovered and was going...
Bison Herd New to Park Uncover Ancient Petroglyphs With Their Hooves Fulfilling Indigenous Prophecy
In a remarkable and inspiring occurrence, the reintroduction of plains bison to ancestral First Nations lands in Canada saw the beasts unearth important petroglyphs,...
Scientists Have Created Natural Sponges That Soak Up Nano-Plastics
Chinese scientists have created some experimental sponges out of starch and gelatin that can soak up microplastics which could be adopted in various places...
Oklahoma Zoo Forecasts ‘Cloudy with a chance of cute’ After Rare Clouded Leopard Kitten Born
In August, a clouded leopard mother named Rukai gave birth to a kitten, who's “eating, sleeping and growing,” according to the keepers at the...
Girl Celebrating 7th Birthday Finds 2.95-Carat Diamond in State Park
Whether she likes Disney Princesses or not, a 7-year-old girl was certainly celebrating her birthday like one after finding a 2.95-carat diamond on a...
Stolen Van Gogh Returned by Sherlock Holmes of the Art World–Seized from Museum During COVID
An early van Gogh painting worth millions was stolen during a museum heist in 2020 under the cover of COVID lockdowns, but while the...
Portuguese Man Accidentally Finds 82-Foot-Long Dinosaur in His Backyard
While doing renovations on his property, a Portuguese man stumbled upon a fossilized sauropod that might be the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in...
Two Critically Endangered Baby Condors Born in National Park Are Healthy, ‘Adorable Fluffballs’
The National Park Service celebrated the birth of two Critically Endangered chicks—and social media is reveling in their fluff-ball photos.
Deemed to be extinct in...