The organization raising funds to erect a monument honoring the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr have been paying King's family a million dollars to be allowed to raise funds to pay for the monument. Now they are demanding $800k for the monument to have part of one of his speeches engraved on it. picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

During the restoration works at the Nashville City Cemetery archeologists found a very rare "piece of eight", latter named the "peso" and today known as "8 reales," dated 1776. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

The oldest known fossils of jellyfish have been found in rocks in Utah that are more than 500 million years old. The fossils are an unusual discovery because soft-bodied creatures, such as jellyfish, rarely survive in the fossil record, unlike animals with hard shells or bones. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A rare ghost orchid has been found growing high in an old cypress tree in a southwest Florida nature preserve. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

University of Alberta faculty member Michael Caldwell is talking about the fossils that were found under a ping-pong table after 25 years. One of which was pregnant.
"It was pretty amazing to realize this valuable discovery had sat under a pingpong table for 25 years," Caldwell said. "But I suppose that after 100 million years in the dirt, it's all relative." picked by musicgirldani 3 years ago

A group of paleontologists has discovered the tusks and petrified remains of a mastodon, a large mammoth-like mammal that lived some three million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found nesting on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years, officials said Friday. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Two reptile-like animals living 290 million years ago are the oldest creatures to have their footprints positively identified after a fortuitous discovery allowed scientists to match fossils to preserved trackways. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land. Swedish researcher Per Ahlberg from Uppsala University and colleagues have reconstructed parts of the animal and explain the transformation. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Danish archaeologists say they have found a well-preserved Viking shield that is more than 1,000 years old. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a copper urn from a burial they speculated imitated the elaborate cremation of soldiers described in Homer's "Iliad." picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Crayfish body fossils and burrows discovered in Victoria, Australia, have provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era, says Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin, who headed up a study on the finds. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The earliest turtles known to live in water have been discovered on a Scottish island. The 164 million-year-old reptile fossils were found on a beach in southern Skye, off the UK's west coast. The new species forms a missing link between ancient terrestrial turtles and their modern, aquatic descendants. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Spanish scientists have unearthed what could be Europe’s largest dinosaur boneyard, finding the remains of 65ft plant-eaters never before discovered on the continent. The palaeontologists believe they have found eight different species amid the 8,000 fossils discovered so far. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Geologists have discovered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, providing more evidence that life may have originated on the bottom of the ocean. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

This morning at 8:00 AM a monument to the Flying Spaghetti Montser was installed on the Cumberland County Courthouse Lawn. (scroll down for complete story)

...RAMEN! picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago

A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk picked by mutil8or 1 year ago

Tourists who want to put a hand or foot in each of four states at the Four Corners area are apparently off the mark — by about 2.5 miles. According to readings by the National Geodetic Survey, the Four Corners marker showing the intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah is about 2.5 miles west of where it should be. picked by suebe 7 months ago

Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa. In the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and co-author Stephen Brusatte named one Kryptops palaios, or "old hidden face," because of a horny covering over its face. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago