animals
Found: A Bloody Stone Axe From 250,000 Years Ago
A test revealed residue of blood and tissue from horses, cattle, camels and rhinos.
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Stories
Stories shared by this traveler.
tunnels
Found: An Underground Meth Lab in a Walmart Parking Lot
The Walmart stayed open while police dove down in.
food
A Wawa Fan's Confession: I Think I Might Like Sheetz
The only thing to do was to put Pennsylvania's best convenience store sandwiches in a head-to-head match-up.
space exploration
Found: A Lot of Planets, Minerals, and Strange Creatures in 'No Man's Sky'
The long anticipated game is finally here.
boats
Found: A Prosthetic Leg Stuck in a Beaver Dam
Its owner was also, well, found.
ghost towns
The Tale of Rival, North Dakota, Which Never Had a Chance
The now-abandoned town was supposed to be rivals with Lignite, N.D., but it failed.
features
Connecting Black Neighborhoods to the Black Lives Matter Movement
How does hypersegregation and disinvestment contribute to police violence?
zoos
Found: Fugitive Red Panda That Spent 242 Days on the Lam
The last of three escapees is brought to heel.
caves
Found: Secret, Illicit Tunnels in an Oregon Park
Police are not happy.
floods
Found: A Giant Clock Washed Away in a Once-in-a-Millennium Flood
Ellicott City, Maryland recently saw a lot of rain.
food
18th Century Britain's Great Culinary Breakthrough: Mushroom Ketchup
It's kind of gross! But not as gross as it sounds.
animals
Found: A Family of Bears, Inside the House
There was a mama bear and two baby bears.
flowers
Resurrecting the Incredible Flower Crowns of Old Ukrainian Wedding Photos
Pinterest boards around the world, unite.
food
Found: A Carton of a Dozen Eggs, All With Double Yolks
The odds are one in a thousand trillion.
ancient
Found: A 3,000-Year-Old Ball of Yarn
It's very delicate.
space exploration
Found: A Star Hundreds of Light-Years From Any Others
Normally stars form in groups.
animals
Found: Mysterious Bright Purple Blob, Floating in the Deep Sea
Could be a nudibranch.
politics
In 1972, Two Women Ran For President. It Didn't Go Well.
Even feminists hesitated to support a female candidate.
nature
The World's Most Lightning-Prone Place Has the World's First Lightning Forecasts
The cause of the Catatumbo Lightning is no longer a mystery.
shipwrecks
Found: Really Stinky 340-Year-Old Cheese From a Shipwreck
The researchers who found it compared it to Roquefort.
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.
animals
Found: Evidence That Cat-Sized 'Rat-Kangaroos' Once Hopped the Earth
Related: What exactly is a bettong?
animals
The Joy of Pronking
A deer can effortlessly jump high into the air; so can a flea. But are humans capable of the same tasks with our dumb legs?
maps
I Would Walk 500 Miles, and I Would Walk 500 More, Just to Be the Man Who Walked 1,000 Miles Out on the Ocean Floor
It would be a hard 3,000 miles.
