Cool Finds
Preserved Horse, Saddled, Harnessed and Ready to Flee, Found in Villa Outside Pompeii
Archaeologists found ornamental pieces of a harness and saddle, suggesting the horse was ready to ride when the volcano blew its top
Meet Farout, the Solar System's Most Distant Minor Planet
Observations suggest the object is 300 miles in diameter, pinkish-red and 3.5 times as far away from the sun as Pluto
A Brief History of 'Silent Night'
The classic Christmas tune was first composed as a poem, and it was set to music for the first time in the winter of 1818
Biologists Describe Legendary, Two-Foot-Long Salamander for the First Time
The reticulated siren was known locally as a 'leopard eel' until two researchers tracked it down and revealed its true identity
Adelie Penguins Poop So Much, Their Feces Can Be Seen From Space
Satellite images of the Adelie penguin's pink guano shows how their colony size and diet have changed over the last 4 decades
The Goddess in the Margarine Tub Is Just One of 1,267 Treasures Found by the British Public in 2017
A new report reveals the pieces voluntarily recorded with the U.K.'s Portable Antiquities Scheme last year
Fruit Flies First Began Feeding on Our Fresh Produce About 10,000 Years Ago
It turns out the insects love marula fruit found in south-central Africa, which attracted them to human caves
Recently Deciphered 4,500-Year-Old Pillar Shows First Known Record of a Border Dispute
The marble stele, held in the British Museum's collections for 150 years, also includes the first known use of the term “no man’s land”
Newly Discovered Cave Could Be Among Canada's Largest
The "Sarlacc Pit," as its been informally dubbed, was discovered last spring during a caribou survey in British Columbia's Wells Gray Provincial Park
Evidence Suggests Humans Reached "Roof of the World" 40,000 Years Ago
Over 3,000 stone tools show human presence in Tibetan plateau 20,000 years before previously thought
This Is How Much Starlight the Universe Has Produced
4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 photons over 13.7 billion years
Here's How That Cow Got So Large
The sad fact is most steers are slaughtered before they reach their full, awesome size, making the Aussie bovine more lucky than freakish
These Wasps Hijack Spiders' Brains And Make Them Do Their Bidding
Larvae of the newly discovered species in Ecuador hijacks the spider to build a super-tough incubation chamber
It Takes 1.71 Days to Poop Out a Lego
Six intrepid volunteers swallowed the heads of LEGO figurines for the unusual study
Early Mammals Were Thought to Be Small and Unseen in the Age of Dinosaurs. An Elephant-Sized Fossil Complicates That Story
At a time when proto-mammals and other creatures were getting smaller, this dicynodont bulked up with the thunder lizards
Newly Discovered Artifacts Reignite Feud Over Which Town Is Connecticut's Oldest
Wethersfield and Windsor both date back to the early 17th century, but which came first is a matter of debate
Brown Recluse Silk Is Stronger Than Steel Because It's Constructed Like a Cable
Thousands of nanotendrils come together to form the flat, super-strong spider silk
Did These Ancient Juglets—Found in a Bronze Age Burial in Israel—Contain Vanilla?
The finding suggests vanilla was being used 2,500 years earlier and half a world from where we thought, but vanilla experts are skeptical on the findings
Why Wombats Make Cube-Shaped Poos
New research shows differences in elasticity in the intestines shapes the poo as it moves through
Missing Disney Cartoon From 1928 Discovered in Japan
The short featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is one of seven missing Disney cartoons about the character the predates Mickey Mouse
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