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A page from the <em>Book of Deer</em>, a medieval illuminated book of gospels, is believed to be Scotland's oldest manuscript.
medieval

Found: Evidence of a Long-Lost Scottish Monastery

Archaeologists may have found where one of the country's oldest manuscripts was written.
Vittoria Traverso January 11, 2018
Illustration of an extinct New Zealand burrowing bat by Gavin Mouldey.
animals

Found: A Giant Extinct Burrowing Bat

It used to scurry about on all fours on New Zealand's forest floor.
Vittoria Traverso January 10, 2018
The golden-crowned manakin is the only known hybrid species in the Amazon.
animals

Found: The First Known Hybrid Bird Species in the Amazon Rain Forest

Resistance to crossing rivers gave it the space to evolve into something new.
Vittoria Traverso January 9, 2018
The largest paper fragment recovered from Blackbeard's wreck is about the size of a quarter.
pirates

Found: Scraps of a Book From the Wreck of Blackbeard's Flagship

Apparently pirates spent some of their free time reading about sea voyages.
Vittoria Traverso January 8, 2018
Roland Spreer, right, returned William Etherton's lost camera.
video

Found: The Owner of the Camera That Recorded Its Own Disappearance

A reunion after hundreds of miles and months at sea.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 8, 2018
When numbers get large, math gets trippy.
mathematics

Found: A Special, Mind-Bogglingly Large Prime Number

It's more than 23 million digits long, if you're counting.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 5, 2018
Yum?
dinosaurs

Found: A New Species of Lizard in a Dinosaur's Stomach

A prehistoric snack is now thought to be a previously unknown species.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 3, 2018
found

The Year in Discovery: The 50 Greatest Finds of 2017

From a lost continent to rare seahorses, explore our interactive map of the year's most wondrous discoveries.
Sarah Laskow and Vittoria Traverso December 27, 2017
Are you feeling lucky?
found

The Luckiest People of 2017

Wins and windfalls of all different varieties.
Natasha Frost December 26, 2017
Skeleton of a plesiosaur on display at the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
antarctic

Found: A Plesiosaur, Antarctica's Oldest Animal Fossil

The fossil record of the southern continent has much to offer.
Vittoria Traverso December 22, 2017
A hearty "click, whistle, squeak" to England's first known resident pod of bottlenose dolphins.
dolphins

Found: England's First Resident Pod of Bottlenose Dolphins

A "dolphin census" proved that they weren't just on holiday.
Vittoria Traverso December 20, 2017
animals

Stingrays, Anteaters, and Orchids: The Year in Newly Discovered Species

Science, please meet this bevy of unusual creatures.
Vittoria Traverso December 20, 2017
Archaeologists examine a ballast pile near Naxos.
shipwrecks

Found: Roman Shipwrecks Off the Greek Island of Naxos

Amphoras and anchors at a popular stop on east-west trade routes.
Vittoria Traverso December 19, 2017
Ceramics, glassware, and clay pipes found at the site of an 18th-century coffeehouse in England.
food

Found: The Remains of an 18th-Century English Coffeehouse

Archaeologists think that calf's foot jelly was its signature dish.
Vittoria Traverso December 18, 2017
The Kepler-90 system now ties with our solar system in number of planets.
telescopes

Found: An Eighth Planet Orbiting a Far-Flung Star

The discovery of Kepler-90i was made possible with artificial intelligence.
Vittoria Traverso December 15, 2017
Spotted: <em>Heterosphecia tawonoides</em> buzzing around Malaysia's Taman Negara National Park.
forests

Found: A Blue-and-White Moth Last Seen 130 Years Ago

It acts a lot like a bee.
Vittoria Traverso December 14, 2017
The amber-trapped prehistoric parasites with an extant tick measuring 0.2 inches.
dinosaurs

Found: 99-Million-Year-Old Ticks Trapped in Amber

One of them was entangled with a dinosaur feather.
Vittoria Traverso December 13, 2017
This tureen features handles that are decorated with bovine heads.
food

Found: A 3,100-Year-Old Tomb Full of Bronze Cauldrons and Other Food Vessels

Archaeologists believe they were spoils of war.
Vittoria Traverso December 12, 2017