A nine-year-old named Ben Witten found a shiny stone at Shoreham Beach in 2021, but a recent trip to a museum led him to discover that he's actually had a Neanderthal hand ax on display in his bedroom for the past three years.

A recent study found that seaweed can reduce grazing cows' methane emissions by up to 40 percent, a discovery that may have implications for battling climate change.

From a medieval chess piece to a long-lost Fabergé egg, these items were purchased at thrift stores and flea markets for as little as $2 — then turned out to be priceless artifacts.

Millions of years ago, the world was crawling with “mega penguins” like the Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, which stood nearly seven feet tall, and the ​​Kumimanu fordycei, which weighed some 350 pounds — but why did they go extinct?

The opulent brooches, earrings, buckles, and cosmetics containers found in two crypts at the Almalyk-dere necropolis suggest the site was a burial ground for elite members of early medieval society.

Camp Century was constructed in 1959 as part of Project Iceworm, a secret mission to build a nuclear missile launch system beneath Greenland.

The terracotta ticket measures about an inch in diameter and is even engraved with a row number.

The Louisiana theme park closed in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina flooded it — and sat abandoned for nearly two decades after.

Totem poles serve a wide variety of purposes for the Indigenous groups that carve them, from illustrating a family's lineage to ridiculing people who have wronged the tribe.

Patricia Stallings was wrongly accused of poisoning her infant son with antifreeze in 1989 — then later exonerated thanks to an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.