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New Soil Samples From the “Noah’s Ark” Site Raise Questions — but Don’t Answer Them
Drill crews pulled soil from as deep as 60 feet into Turkey’s Durupınar Formation this year, and what they didn’t find may matter as much as what they did. A Formation That’s Been Argued Over for Decades The Durupınar Formation, a boat-shaped feature near Turkey’s Mount Ararat, has drawn speculation about a connection to Noah’s…
Archaeologists Unearth ‘Rare’ 5,000-Year-Old Arrowheads in ‘Rapidly’ Melting Ancient Norwegian Ice
After three weeks in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains, a team of glacier archaeologists has come back with some of its oldest finds yet, including Stone Age arrows with their wooden shafts and bindings still attached. The same ice that preserved them for thousands of years is now retreating fast enough that the team says it may…
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Greenland Offered $45 a Heart to Kill 1,000 Sharks That Can Live 400 Years — Then Dropped the Plan, but Not the Debate
The Greenland shark is the slowest shark in the sea, and perhaps the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth. A municipality on Greenland’s west coast recently approved a bounty to…
Jonathan the Tortoise Is 194 and Still Thriving — and His DNA Shows Almost No Wear and Tear
He was hatched around 1832, before Queen Victoria took the throne and decades before Thomas Edison patented the lightbulb. Jonathan, an Aldabra giant tortoise, is the world’s oldest…
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This Puppy Was Found Hairless And Starving On The Streets Of Thailand — A Year Later, 25 Million People Watched His Transformation
In January 2023, a severely underweight puppy with almost no fur was found on the streets of Thailand by Happy Doggo, a…
Covered in Tumors and Close to Giving Up, a Stray Dog Named Boby Beat Cancer in Two Months — and Found a Family
Boby looked like a dog with no future. His body was covered in tumors, many of them open and infected, and he…