On March 17th, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, turned 100 years old. Built with an initial budget of a paltry $3.5mm USD, the 4-acre museum was visite...
For the last three years, 26-year old German artist, Jan Vormann has been a man on a mission - Patching up old historical walls all over the world, with colorful Lego bri...
Any mention of dinosaurs usually invokes images of huge creatures. However, Paleontologists now believe that there was a much smaller species of dinosaurs - the size of m...
If you have ever wondered how a Country or City got its name, this is the Atlas for you. Called Atlas of 'True' Names, it substitutes place names around the world with na...
Today people all over the United States celebrate the life and legacy of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights leader who led the fight against racial segregati...
A nickel is a nickel is a nickel - Always worth five cents right? Wrong! If it is one of the five 1913 Liberty Head Nickels, then it may be worth millions - as much as $3...
Paul Sereno, a resident paleontologist at National Geographic has been scouring the arid areas of the Sahara for many years, in search of crocodile fossils. Now his findi...
As we celebrate the 91st anniversary of Veterans Day, we thought it would be interesting to investigate the origins of this holiday and, the reason it is always celebrate...
The conventional way to project our Globe is by drawing each continent according to its landmass, which while technically correct, can get a little boring. What if we dre...
It turns out that the beautiful Island of Madagascar is not just home to escaped zoo animals from New York, but also the home of the Golden Orb Spiders, renowned for thei...
If you are in the market for an almost perfect Tyrannosaurus-Rex (T-Rex), you better book your ticket to Las Vegas. For on October 3rd, Samson, one of the World's largest...
American school children were in for a real treat when they headed back to school after the Labor Day weekend on September 8th - a welcoming speech from the President of...
Damon Weaver, a fifth-grader from Pahokee, Florida, first made headlines, when he interviewed the Vice President hopeful, Joe Biden, during the election campaign in Octob...
Archeologists in Western Europe recently unveiled, what they believe is a 14,000 year old pre-historic hunting map. Etched on a stone, the map was discovered inside a cav...
While it was known that the giant woolly mammoth is the ancestor of the modern-day elephant, very little was known about how and when the modern day elephant and other ma...
Though Lyuba was only one-month old when she died, her perfectly preserved body has provided paleontologists with more insight into the lives of woolly mammoths than any...
Earlier this week, International auction house Christies, held a Natural History sale, that was a dream come true for any paleontologist or lover of natural history.
Stunning pictures of Otzi the Iceman, the world's oldest frozen mummy can now be viewed online, thanks to Italy's Institute for Mummies and The Iceman. Discovered by two...
British Geologist Matthew Kennet and his colleagues struck gold earlier this month, when they found a found a series of footprints that date back over 1.5 million years -...
Earlier this week, scientists in Los Angeles, California unearthed a near perfect fossil of a Columbian Mammoth, one of the largest elephant species, that became extinct...
Fossil hunters in Columbia, recently discovered the remains of snakes so large, they are calling them Titanboas. These giants were believed to have slithering around the...
Today, was Mr. Barack Obama's first day as President of the United States of America. While his new job is important to him, what is even more important is being a good f...
If you have ever wondered how a Country or City got its name, this is an Atlas for you. Called Atlas of True Names, it substitutes place names around the world with names...
An ancient city believed to have been inhabited by the Chacahpoya (Cloud People), was recently discovered, amidst the dense Amazon forests. The 12-mile area, estimated to...