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Who were Eva and Edith?
airplanes

Found: Two Mysterious Signatures on the Wing of a WWII Plane

Who were Eva and Edith?
Sarah Laskow February 2, 2017
A zircon crystal in volcanic rock.
geology

Found: Tiny Grains of Rock That Reveal a Lost Continent

It's hiding under Mauritius.
Sarah Laskow February 1, 2017
A shot of Fukushima from 2011.
radioactive

Found: Melted Uranium Rods, Lost at Fukushima

Six years after the disaster, Tepco may have found its lost nuclear debris.
Sarah Laskow January 31, 2017
The moose did not mean to be in the basement.
animals

Found: A Moose in This Random Person's Basement

It fell into the window well.
Sarah Laskow January 30, 2017
Gumbo was shaken up but doing ok.
cars

Found: A Cat That Rode 230 Miles Under a Car’s Hood

He was fine, if shaken up.
Sarah Laskow January 30, 2017
The museum is putting the diorama back on display.
taxidermy

Found: A Real Human Skull in a Museum Diorama

It's apparently going to go back on display?
Sarah Laskow January 27, 2017
Prisoners at concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, December 19, 1938.
nazis

Found: Tens of Thousands of Previously Unknown Nazi Persecution Sites

Expecting to find 5,000 camps and other sites, researchers have documented 42,500.
Sarah Laskow January 26, 2017
news

Found: A Giant Crack in the Arizona Desert

Fissures appear when groundwater is sucked away.
Sarah Laskow January 25, 2017
The skeleton was found with a stone in his mouth.
cemeteries

Found: A Man Buried With a Stone in Place of His Tongue

It's the only such burial ever found in Roman Britain.
Sarah Laskow January 24, 2017
An artist imagines a giant otter in its natural habitat.
animals

Found: The Bones of a Giant Otter

This 110-pound otter also had the teeth of a badger.
Sarah Laskow January 23, 2017
The bottle was not quite this fancy.
ships

Found: The Owner of a Message-in-a-Bottle Sent in 1983

It took 34 years for the finder to track down the sender.
Sarah Laskow January 20, 2017
The Colosseum still has secrets.
medieval

Found: A Medieval Horse Head Hidden in the Colosseum

The skull dates back to the 12th or 13th century.
Sarah Laskow January 19, 2017
Maureen did not get great grades.
hidden

Found: A Not-So-Great Report Card From 1957, Hidden in the Floor

A home renovation uncovered a schoolgirl's bad grades from decades ago.
Sarah Laskow January 18, 2017
animals

Found: Enormous Alligator Going for a Stroll

Florida locals captured footage of a very large alligator at a local nature preserve.
Sarah Laskow January 17, 2017
Martin Luther King, Jr., with his wife, in 1964.
news

Found: A Recording of a Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech from 1964

The archivist at Pacifica Radio rediscovered a recording of MLK giving a speech in London.
Sarah Laskow January 16, 2017
news

Found: A Hoard of Gold Hidden Inside a Piano

It is, apparently, a substantial and unusual collection.
Sarah Laskow January 13, 2017
statues

Found: A 400-Year-Old Buddha Statue, Hidden Under a Manmade Lake

Work on a hydropower gate revealed the statue's head.
Sarah Laskow January 12, 2017
gravestones

Found: The Tiny, Century-Old Headstone of a Pet Bunny

Here lies Duchie, a good rabbit.
Sarah Laskow January 12, 2017