Palaeontologists use rotting fish to reveal the secrets of our ancestors
Fish-like fossils from half a billion years ago are recognised as being part of our evolutionary history because they possess characteristic anatomical features, such as a tail, eyes and the precursor of a backbone
New light on Ancient Mariner
The man behind the Ancient Mariner, the unsettling character who holds a wedding guest spellbound with his "glittering eye" in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, has been unearthed by a writer from Shropshire, England
Mengele's journal bought by Holocaust survivor's grandson
Jewish groups slam auctioning off of journal apparently written by Auschwitz's 'Angel of Death', in which he wrote of genetic purity and staining of superior bloodlines by 'morons' and 'idiots'
Native Americans First Tamed Turkeys 2,000 Years Ago
More than 1,500 years before Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed to the New World, Native Americans had already domesticated turkeys twice: first in south-central Mexico at around 800 B.C. and again in what is now the southwestern U.S. at about 200 B.C., according to a new study
Ancient croc kin likely food for largest ever snake
A 60-million-year-old croc kin was a likely food source for Titanoboa, the largest snake the world has ever known
Int'l Civil Rights Museum Grand Opening
February 1, 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the sit-in of four NC A&T students. Ezell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil and Franklin McCain sat at a segregated lunch counter at Woolworths in downtown Greensboro
Early copy of the Gospel of Mark is a forgery
Although speculation as to the authenticity of the Archaic Mark codex has been rife for more than 60 years, prior to this definitive research many believed it was an early record (possibly as early as the 14th century) of the Gospel of Mark and the closest of any extant manuscript to the world’s oldest Greek Bible—the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus
After the Putti, the Baby Calamari
After a morning of being guided through the paintings and sculptures of the great masters, everyone would head for the basement cafeteria, where you would stand in line, plastic trays in hand, waiting to be treated to a lunch of rubbery chicken and gooey tapioca pudding
A WWII air hero enlivens Willow Grove museum
Not all of the relics are made of metal, however, and surely none is as charming and beloved as Lap, who has lived the history the museum celebrates and flown many of the planes on display
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
Abbaworld, scheduled to open in London, will offer 25 rooms and more than 30,000 square feet of Abba-related fare, chronicling the ascent of Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anna-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Faltskog from their teenage years to the present day
Ambassador or slave?
This appears to be the first time that a skeleton with an East Asian ancestry has been discovered in the Roman Empire
Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso
It can be found in a new, temporary home, the Met’s conservation laboratory, where experts there are trying to determine the best course of action for this 105-year-old painting’s brand-new feature: an irregular, six-inch tear running vertically along the lower right-hand corner
Important new fossils found in Abu Dhabi
It should be noted that more sites were discovered, all belonging to a period between six to eight million years ago, containing high-quality fossils from the many types of animal that lived at that time, including elephants, hippopotamuses, antelopes, giraffes, monkeys, rodents, large and small carnivores, ostriches, turtles, crocodiles and fish
Museum digs up South Seas treasure
A lost collection of exotic artefacts from the Pacific expeditions of Captain James Cook and the Scottish explorers who followed him to the South Seas has been rediscovered
The Museum For The Study of Money
There is no better place than a bank to obtain information about money, and now the Bank of Thailand has opened a museum to tell the history of Thai banking and display a complete collection of Thai money through the ages
British Museum in battle with Iran over ancient 'charter of rights'
The discovery of fragments of ancient cuneiform tablets – hidden in a British Museum storeroom since 1881 – has sparked a diplomatic row between the UK and Iran
Experts may have found bones of English princess
An international team of scientists say they think they've found the body of Princess Eadgyth (pronounced Edith) - a 10th-century noblewoman who has been compared to Princess Diana