Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. Today, it's a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a ...
As reported by Gizmodo at the time, about 2,300 probable ballcourts have been identified to-date in modern Mexico, Guatemala, ...
Koi Fish: One of the longest-living fish in the world, the oldest known species of koi carp had an amazing life ... of its capacity to reverse its life cycle and live forever. The Greenland Shark is ...
A group of scientists finds the oldest signal of the planet’s magnetic field in the the Isua Greenstone Belt in Greenland ...
The world's oldest known wild bird may have lost her mate, but she was recently seen courting new suitors. The Laysan albatross, or mōlī, known as Wisdom has been photographed dancing with ...
A collaborative study by the University of Oxford and MIT has uncovered a 3.7-billion-year-old magnetic field record from ...
What makes the results of Crawford’s DNA test so monumental is its impact on the scientific community. His test now pushes the oldest known American DNA to 17,000 years! This just shows how long ...
TAMPA, Fla. - According to ZooTampa at Lowry Park, Juliet was one of the oldest known manatees before she died. The passing of the unusually large animal, who weighed 3,045 pounds, was announced ...
Fatou became the zoo's oldest resident only recently, following the death earlier this year of Ingo the flamingo. The bird was believed to be at least 75 and had lived at the zoo since 1955.
The Lyrid meteor shower is one of the oldest-known meteor showers, according to NASA. The Chinese first observed it in 687 BC, meaning humans have been aware of it for about 2,700 years.