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fairytales

Found: Fairy Circles in Australia

The mysterious phenomenon shows up on a new continent.
Sarah Laskow March 15, 2016
nature

Found: A Frog Living in India's Wastelands

The frogs live in a barren area of the country surrounded by trash.
Sarah Laskow March 14, 2016
tunnels

Found: Secret Tunnels Underneath Naples

Two geologists were tipped off by a 90-year-old man who sheltered there during World War II.
Sarah Laskow March 11, 2016
Atlanta, Georgia

Doll's Head Trail

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.
geology

Found: Five Drowned Limestone 'Apostles'

There were originally 12 of the cliffs standing in Australia.
Sarah Laskow March 10, 2016
animals

Found: This Green-Eyed Monster Fish

Like many creatures that look strange to us, this one lives deep, deep down in the ocean.
Sarah Laskow March 9, 2016
shipwrecks

Found: The Wreck of a Confederate Blockade Runner

It's one of the best preserved Civil War-era ships ever discovered.
Sarah Laskow March 8, 2016
animals

Found: Tiny Lizards Preserved in Amber

The lizard fossils are around 99 million years old.
Sarah Laskow March 7, 2016
tunnels

Found: A Secret Tunnel to India

It was the fourth discovered in the past four years.
Sarah Laskow March 4, 2016
animals

Found: Tiny Ghost Octopus

Almost definitely a new species.
Sarah Laskow March 4, 2016
collections

Found: Seven Incredibly Rare Ty Cobb Baseball Cards

The family that found them almost threw them away.
Sarah Laskow March 3, 2016
islands

Found: A Car on a Hot Stone Roof

How did it get there?
Sarah Laskow March 2, 2016
mummies

Found: A Hungarian Mummy With the Gene for Colon Cancer

Humans were predisposed to the disease even before it became common.
Sarah Laskow March 1, 2016
dinosaurs

Found: A Massive Jurassic Graveyard

23,000 square miles of Patagonia is one of the most productive fossil-hunting grounds in the world.
Sarah Laskow February 29, 2016
news

Found: The Corpse Flower's Miniature Cousin

R. consueloae is "the smallest of the largest flowers in the world"
Sarah Laskow February 26, 2016
secret

Found: A Mortal Kombat Secret That Was Hidden for Over 20 Years

Sarah Laskow February 25, 2016
churches

Found: A Mysterious Icon in the Church Marking Jesus' Birth

Sarah Laskow February 24, 2016
insects

FOUND: Evidence That Cockroaches Have Plagued Humans for Millennia

Sarah Laskow February 23, 2016