Little dragon under the sea
The English name for this strange fish is Dragonet - derived from the word
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The English name for this strange fish is Dragonet - derived from the word
The scientific name is Sphyrna mokarran, this fish has a hammer-like head. That strange rafting head is probably an adaptive way to help them detect prey more easily: wh…
Sea lilies (Endoxocrinus parrae) bear this name because they resemble a flower that hangs on the ocean floor. However, according to US researchers, this is a echinoderm…
The sail has a scientific name, Istionphorus platypterus, whose body is about 3m long on average, weighs 55kg, but sometimes has a length of 3.6m and weighs up to 60kg.…
The 2,000-year-old stone was found at a location near the Jerusalem International Convention Center during an IAA excavation, before building a new road in the area.
Tasmanian tigers or Tasmanian wolves, wolf bags have the scientific name Thylacinus cynocephalus. This is the largest pocket-sized carnivore in modern times.
Blackbeard is one of the most notorious pirates in the world. His real name is Edward Teach (or possibly Thatch).
The cemetery is the site of the tomb of those who held high positions in the Fifth Dynasty, which lasted from 2465 - 2323 BC.
The face was distorted, revealing the horrors of the mummy, urging the Egyptians to learn the identity of the dead for many years.
According to Daily Mail, researchers at the University of London (UCL) use a new scanning technique to identify Egyptian mummies, which are on display at Chiddington Cas…
After two days of discovery, the ancient tomb was built with a protective platform in the precinct of Phu Tho Post Office, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City.
The piece of wood engraved with the name of the Persian teacher shows that foreigners have come to live and work in Japan more than a thousand years ago.
The well-trained workers accidentally discovered 22 gold pieces named wind god in a stone box on Java Island, Indonesia.
Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), based in Panama, have discovered monkeys' fossils that lived in North America 21 million years ago.
Archaeologists were really shocked when they discovered the symbolic characters of ancient Egypt shaped like modern aircraft.