The Glass: A Night in a Glass Igloo With Northern Lights Above It
Deep inside the snow-covered woodlands of Finland, you can find the Arctic Fox Igloos located at one of the shores of Lake Ranuanjärvi. If you stay in…
This nearly 400-year-old bonsai tree even survived the Hiroshima bombing.
It was planted in 1625 and is still growing. Image source: USDA-U.S. National Arboretum The ancient Miyajima White Pine tree sits humbly in the National Bonsai &…
The trees are permanently crooked and bent in this area since it is one of the windiest places on earth.
Slope Point, the southernmost point of the South Island of New Zealand, is a truly unique place. Due to the strong Antarctic winds, the trees here stretch…
Gigantic Upside Down Lightning Jet Reaches the Edge of Space, Giving Scientists New Clues
A massive electrical discharge known as a “gigantic jet” – the strongest one seen so far – that shot 50 miles up into space has provided scientists…
Could This Thing Discovered in Antarctica Be An Ancient Pyramid?
In recent years, a ‘new’ discovery of an Antarctic pyramid made waves in the online community. But is it even a pyramid? And is it one pyramid?…
Here’s What They Found At the Bottom of the Great Blue Hole
The Great Blue Hole is a massive marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize, near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi)…
Russian Pyramids twice as old as Egyptian Found Could Rewrite Human History
The discovery of the world’s earliest pyramids on the Kola Peninsula may confirm the existence of an ancient civilisation on Russian territory. The civilization likely predates the…
Chinese scientists find a massive sinkhole that contains an ancient “lost world.”
Chinese scientists have discovered an ancient lost world in an extraordinarily deep and large sinkhole in south China, where they expect to find flora and fauna still…
Insect Siesta: Tired Bumblebees Fall Asleep Inside Flowers
When bumblebees get tired from buzzing around gathering pollen for their baskets, they just crawl into a flower and fall asleep. While many species of wild bees…
Scientists Discover 400-Year-Old Greenland Shark Likely Born Around 1620
Greenland sharks are now the longest-living vertebrates known on Earth, according to scientists. Image credit: Dive Magazine Researchers used radiocarbon dating of eye proteins to determine the ages…