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Qilakitsoq mummies at the Greenland National Museum.
Nuuk, Greenland

Qilakitsoq Mummies

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.
One of the jawbones came from the Corinium Museum in Cirencester, England.
science

Found: The Earliest Direct Evidence of Milk Consumption

Lactose intolerance was no match for a prehistoric desire for dairy.
Anne Ewbank September 10, 2019
It takes 20 sheep to make 2.2 pounds of Torta del Casar.
Casar de Cáceres, Spain

Museo del Queso

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.
An Australian Research Council team surveys an archaeological site on the southern coast of the island of Seram in 2019.
exploration

How Many People Did It Take to First Occupy Australia?

Scientists are looking deeper into how the continent's first people arrived.
Jonathan Carey June 21, 2019
The water is full of wonders.
beach

How to Decode the Shells You Find Washed Up on the Beach

A beginner's guide to identifying conchs, chitons, and more.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 28, 2024
The 1957 Stokes test, of a 19-kiloton weapon, in Nevada.
radioactive

Deep in the Ocean’s Trenches, The Legacy of Nuclear Testing Lives

The discovery of "bomb carbon" miles below the surface shows how deep human impact goes.
Jonathan Carey May 14, 2019
A tubeworm growing from under an outcrop, surrounded by other deep sea species.
atlantic

Found: For the First Time, Deep Sea Tube Worms Near the U.S. East Coast

You never know what you'll find when you turn over a rock.
Jonathan Carey May 10, 2019
A CPR entangled in a plastic bag.
oceans

How a 90-Year-Old Quest for Plankton Uncovered Early Plastic Pollution

All praise to the tireless continuous plankton recorder.
Sabrina Imbler April 30, 2019
Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia.
bones

Found: One of the Oldest Burial Sites in the Amazon

The discovery could change what we understand about the rainforest's ancient settlements.
Jonathan Carey April 26, 2019
Haddonfield, New Jersey

Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.
Moving can lead to incredible discoveries.
houses

10 Stories About the Things You've Found While Moving

Moving is a pain, but it can lead to interesting surprises.
Eric Grundhauser March 22, 2019
The death mask of Mayan king Pakal the Great.
Mexico City, Mexico

Death Mask of Pakal the Great

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.
The tombstone found at St. Paul's Cathedral, carved in the classic Ringerike style.
London, England

Viking Tombstone

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Museum
Warsaw, Poland

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Museum

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.
The two mummies at the Albany Institute of History and Art.
Albany, New York

The Mummy Ankhefenmut

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.
Site of the Cohoes Mastodon discovery.
Cohoes, New York

Site of the Cohoes Mastodon

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.
The plaque, hidden behind chairs.
Leiden, Netherlands

Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory Plaque

A plaque hidden in the law faculty at Leiden University honors the first scientist to make liquid helium.
Munich, Germany

Fraunhofer Refractor at the Deutsches Museum

The telescope that discovered Neptune.