Metal monolith found by a helicopter crew in Utah desert In a remote part of Utah, after being spotted by state employees counting sheep from a helicopter, a mysterious monolith was found. The structure appeared to be planted in the soil, estimated to be between 10ft and 12ft tall (about 3 metres). It was made …

A 12-Year-Old Boy Found an Ancient Woolly Mammoth Tooth During a Vacation in Ohio A 12-year-old boy visiting Ohio’s Amish Country may be one of the youngest archaeologists in history. Last month, Jackson Hepner was living with his family at The Inn at Honey Run in Millersburg, Ohio, when he came across a rare relic …

A lost interview with a survivor of the last U.S. slave ship surfaced A schooner named Clotilda arrived in Mobile Bay, Alabama, on the warm and unusually unsuspecting day of July 1860, on board by captain William Foster and eleventy African slaves. Clotilda was the U.S. slave ship last known to bring captives to the …

200-year-old shipwreck discovered in Florida Beach erosion has revealed a shipwreck in St. Johns county. The ship is possibly 200 years old. “My wife and I walk the beach almost every day,” Mark O’Donoghue said. Saturday he spotted “some timbers and metal spikes,” exposed in the sand. Sunday, even more, had been exposed and he …

Another Possible Lost Cemetery Site Found in Florida An investigation into the whereabouts of a segregation-era lost cemetery has found possible burial sites with ground-penetrating radar on MacDill Air Force Base property, according to a report in The Tampa Bay Times. This would be the fifth lost cemetery found in the Tampa Bay area over …

The Pioneer cabin tree older than 1,000 years has fallen after a violent storm that hit California After getting the news, it feels like the end of an age, the iconic Sequoia ‘ Tunnel Tree ‘ has gone down in history as a violent storm that struck California brought it to the Ground. The Tunnel …

Fossil of young long-necked dinosaur found—and nicknamed Andrew In what is now Montana, some 150 million years ago, a young dinosaur roamed through a land before (modern) time. Not yet five years old, the long-necked creature somehow ended up buried in a violent, muddy flood, forever freezing it in adolescence. Now, researchers have freed this …

Unexpected: Scientists Find the Fossil of a 91-Million-Year-Old Shark in Kansas A 91-million-year-old fossil shark newly named Cretodus houghtonorum discovered in Kansas joins a list of large dinosaur-era animals. Preserved in sediments deposited in an ancient ocean called the Western Interior Seaway that covered the middle of North America during the Late Cretaceous period (144 …

Possible Slave Quarter Uncovered in Maryland WTOP News reports that the possible site of a 300-year-old slave quarter has been found near an eighteenth-century brick manor once inhabited by Jesuit missionaries.  The announcement was made Tuesday by researchers from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration and St. Mary’s College in Maryland. According to …