300 Sailors Torched Their Warship in 1742. Five Cannons Found 500 Yards from a Florida Solved a 282-Year-Old Mystery
For 30 years, a Florida Keys shipwreck had no name. Then researchers found five cannons exactly where an 18th-century logbook said they’d been thrown overboard.
The World’s First Selfie May Belong to a Neanderthal—and Possibly the First Human Face Ever Imagined
A mysterious pebble found in a Spanish cave holds a 43,000-year-old fingerprint preserved in red pigment. Its unusual markings hint at a symbolic act by Neanderthals. Researchers believe it could change what we know about prehistoric expression.
A Fossil Sat in Silence for 37 Years—Now It’s Been Unmasked as a New Prehistoric Predator
A fossil found on Vancouver Island over 35 years ago has finally been identified—and it’s not what scientists expected.