Archeology
Alcohol saves humanity from extinction
Research by scientists indicates that the process of absorbing and metabolizing alcohol from fruits is part of the reason for saving apes from extinction.
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Archeology
Why are prehistoric animals so much bigger than animals today?
Try to find out why prehistoric animals possessed a much larger size than today's animals.
Archeology
Mice had wandered on Earth millions of years ago with dinosaurs
The rodent called Jeholbaatar kielanaeis is part of a mammal species that survived the onslaught of an asteroid that ended the dinosaur era on Earth.
Archeology
The largest marsupial species ever existed on Earth
The giant short-faced Kangaroo can reach 2.7 m high and weighs 240 kg when it matures, twice as large as the largest living kangaroo.
Archeology
Napoleon's high boots were 'abundant' in the auction
The boots used by Emperor Napoleon I during the last exile earned $ 128,000 at the Paris auction on Friday.
Archeology
Discovered 4,000 stone statues of 4,000 years old
The carved stone statues are humanoid with shoulders, neck and head quite pronounced, averaging 50cm tall.
Archeology
New discovery, China also once existed giraffes with extremely weird heads
If you think giraffes are only in Africa, then you must be mistaken, in the past, Asia also existed and China owned a very strange head giraffe.
Archeology
The winning man continued to dig a jar of coins
The 66-year-old man was lucky to discover a jar containing thousands of coins, some 100 years old, on the land bought with lottery money.
Archeology
Strangely, the plants 'rain' are both sweet and fragrant
In particular, this 'rainwater' is both sweet and fragrant, inviting insects and birds to enjoy, thereby supporting the pollination process.
Archeology
A warrior's grave sits on a 2,000-year-old horse-drawn carriage
Iron Age warriors were placed in the wagon and buried with two horses pulling as they were about to rush out of the tomb.
Archeology
The 'devil' in Asian myth is ... other humans have lived with us
Genetic studies of the United States, India and Singapore have uncovered the truth of the scary Rakshasas: another human being who once lived and married with our modern…
Archeology
The male worker changed his life after picking up a 1000-year-old jewelry
A worker walking during the lunch break discovered a piece of jewelry believed to be more than 1,000 years old and received over 3 billion VND.
Archeology
Ancient penguin discovered in New Zealand
Scientists have discovered that fossils act like a missing link in the evolution of penguins, after they evolved from dinosaurs.
Space science
An ancient object than the Earth fell into the Sahara, revealing the secret of 'earthquake'
Our oldest homeland may be a snow circle - the beautiful water around the young sun, which provides materials to shape the earth and its neighbors.
Space science
A mysterious object suddenly appears behind the astronaut on the ISS station
The bizarre object seems to change its course and is out of sight behind the astronaut of the European Space Agency, Samantha Cristoforetti.