World’s Strangest

The short answer is because it would scare the pants off of us. But if you must know the real scientific answer, well, nobody knows actually: The short answer is, researchers don’t know exactly, although there [...]

Photo: N. Iwai Are you a lover and not a fighter? Not this frog! Japanese researcher Noriko Iwai of the University of Tokyo discovered that the rare and endangered Japanese Otton frog (Babina subaspera) [...]

Photo: Xiaoya Ma My, what large fossilized brain you’ve got! Nicholas Strausfeld of the University of Arizona and colleagues were studying fossils from China’s Yunnan province when they encountered a 520-million-year-old brain ever found [...]

A new study of vision differences between genders suggests that, whether mena and women have a different worldview or not, they definitely see the world differently. Guys’ eyes are more sensitive to small details and moving objects, while women are more perceptive to color changes, according to a new vision study that suggests men and women actually [...]

Image: Yael Yolovitch / Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologists in Israel discovered this 9,500-year-old cultic figurine of a ram with spiral horns, carved out of limestone: The animal figurines were found near the remains of an ancient round [...]

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs revealed the tradition of soldiers presenting severed right hands of the enemy in exchange for gold, and now, archaeologists excavating a palace in the ancient city of Avaris have confirmed the myth [...]

Photo: Museo Archeologico Civico di Bologna There ain’t no curse like black magic curse! Newly deciphered tablets revealed the use of black magic in 1,600-year-old Roman curses: One of the curses targets a Roman senator named Fistus and appears [...]

The 18th century telescope above, found in an excavation in Amsterdam, is quite unusual: it’s made of bone. Ranging in length from roughly 3 to 5 inches (80 to 140 millimeters), the telescopes were made using cattle metatarsal bone. [...]