Category: History

Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovers New ‘Sea Dragon’ Species on British Beach A two-meter-long fossil of a new type of prehistoric “sea dragon” has been discovered on a Dorset beach. Amateur fossil hunter Dr. Steve Etches found the ichthyosaur fossil buried…

Jaws of Death: Paleontologist Renames GIANT, Prehistoric Marine Lizard Some 92 to 66 million years ago, as the age of dinosaurs waned, giant marine lizards called mosasaurs roamed an ocean that covered North America from Utah to Missouri and Texas…

Giant Prehistoric Shark Teeth Discovered In The Desert Several giant teeth from an extinct prehistoric megalodon shark have been found in Chile’s Atacama Desert, and a top expert has said that despite treasure hunters pillaging the area, the South American…

Teenage Girl Discovers “Bizarre Humanoid Skull” Like No Other in Abandoned Mine Shaft in Mexico It was back in the 1930s when an American teenager discovered an abandoned mine tunnel in Mexico’s Copper Canyon region. Inside it, she found a…

DNA has proven that Turkey was the country of origin for the earliest farmers in Europe It was an innovation that changed the course of human history forever, leading to the rise of the first civilizations and transforming the way…

Carbon dating indicates that India’s oldest known burial site is 4,000 years old One day in 2005, Shriram Sharma, a farmer from Sanauli village Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district, was carrying about his day, and ploughing his field. Little did he know that…

195,000 Years Oldest Fossils Found Outside of Africa  New fossil finds over the past few years have been forcing anthropologists to reexamine our evolutionary path to becoming human. Now the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside the continent of Africa is…