How and Why Humans (and Other Mammals) Lost Most of their Body Hair

Updated 6 January, 2023 - 00:59 Nathan Falde For decades scientists have been puzzled and intrigued by a most fascinating question, which is:…

11,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found in British Cave

Updated 25 January, 2023 - 21:54 ashley cowie An astounding discovery in the Heaning Wood Bone Cave in northern England has revealed the…

Giant Elephant Hunt Reveals Emerging Neanderthal Society

Updated 2 February, 2023 - 17:59 Sahir New evidence has emerged that Neanderthals were more advanced hunters and gatherers than previously thought. A…

Neanderthals Filled This Spanish Cave with Animal Skulls. But Why?

Updated 27 January, 2023 - 21:52 Nathan Falde As the data continues to accumulate, it becomes more and more clear that Neanderthals were…

Virtual Reality Tracks 75,000-Year-Old Footsteps of Sahul Explorers

Updated 8 February, 2023 - 13:58 ashley cowie Newly published and ground-breaking research has revealed previously unknown information about the populating of the…

Massive Penguins the Size of Gorillas Once Waddled Around New Zealand

Updated 17 February, 2023 - 22:00 Nathan Falde Scientists have discovered what appears to be the world’s biggest penguin species known to have…

Results of Kenyan Dig Suggest Africa’s First Toolmakers Were Not Human

Updated 10 February, 2023 - 21:56 Nathan Falde A multi-year series of excavations at a site near Lake Victoria in Kenya unearthed a…

Meet The Fresno Nightcrawler, The Cryptid That Looks Like A Pair Of Pants Moving On Their Own

First caught on camera in 2007, the Fresno Nightcrawler looks like a pair of pants that can move on its own. TwitterAn image…

The Bizarre Legend of “Freezing the Old Folks” in Vermont

1 Cryogenics in the snow covered hills of Vermont? 1.1 Vermonters are a frugal bunch and have been for many generations 2 Vermont’s…

The Legend of the Fouke Monster

This blog was contributed by Tyler Dyer during her internship in Special Collections during the fall of 2020. Graduating with a degree in…

Myth or Legend: Wheeling’s Flatwoods Monster

Originally published Oct. 28, 2020 On a September night in 1952, Kathleen May found herself in an odd situation. After hearing a fanciful…

Felixstowe Fire Demon

The  Felixstowe Fire Demon  sighting was an extraterrestrial sighting that took place in Felixstowe, England, on the evening of September 20, 1965. The…