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animals

Found: A Family of Bears, Inside the House

There was a mama bear and two baby bears.
Sarah Laskow August 2, 2016
food

Found: A Carton of a Dozen Eggs, All With Double Yolks

The odds are one in a thousand trillion.
Sarah Laskow August 1, 2016
ancient

Found: A 3,000-Year-Old Ball of Yarn

It's very delicate.
Sarah Laskow July 29, 2016
space exploration

Found: A Star Hundreds of Light-Years From Any Others

Normally stars form in groups.
Sarah Laskow July 29, 2016
animals

Found: Mysterious Bright Purple Blob, Floating in the Deep Sea

Could be a nudibranch.
Sarah Laskow July 28, 2016
shipwrecks

Found: Really Stinky 340-Year-Old Cheese From a Shipwreck

The researchers who found it compared it to Roquefort.
Sarah Laskow July 27, 2016
secret

Found: Nodes in an Anonymity-Protecting Network That Are Actually Spying on Users

Tor is used for anonymity, so it's a problem if parts of it are collecting data.
Sarah Laskow July 26, 2016
animals

Found: Evidence That Cat-Sized 'Rat-Kangaroos' Once Hopped the Earth

Related: What exactly is a bettong?
Sarah Laskow July 25, 2016
vikings

Found: A Giant Viking Axe

This axe meant business.
Sarah Laskow July 22, 2016
maps

Found: The Exact Location of All the Pokémon in Pokémon Go

A map shows the real-time location of every one.
Sarah Laskow July 21, 2016
shipwrecks

Found: A WWII Tank Left Underwater Since a U-Boat Attack in 1945

It was hauled out of the water during a Russian military exercise.
Sarah Laskow July 20, 2016
art

A Graphic Guide to All the Weird Things in New York City's Waterways

The digital journal Underwater New York tells the stories of objects submerged and washed ashore.
Lauren Young July 20, 2016
news

Found: Vessels That Let Your Immune System Control Your Personality

The brain and lymph system are connected after all.
Sarah Laskow July 19, 2016
cemeteries

Found: More Dog Skeletons at a 2,000-Year-Old Canine Graveyard

People both depended on dogs and ate them.
Sarah Laskow July 18, 2016
death

Why Pokémon Go Players Are Going to Keep Finding Dead Bodies

It happens every day.
Sarah Laskow July 15, 2016
games

Found: Vintage and Extremely Rare Version of a Nintendo 64 Console

It's a 64DD meant for English-speaking markets.
Sarah Laskow July 14, 2016
insects

Found: A Beetle Whose Name Is Banned From Chinese Media

The name was meant to be an honor, but it backfired.
Sarah Laskow July 13, 2016
animals

Found: A Drone That Looks Like a Bird Crash-Landed in Somalia

Presumably, it's a spy drone.
Sarah Laskow July 12, 2016