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Bison Herd New to Park Uncover Ancient Petroglyphs With Their Hooves Fulfilling Indigenous Prophecy
In a remarkable and inspiring occurrence, the reintroduction of plains bison to ancestral First Nations lands in Canada saw the beasts unearth important petroglyphs,...
Good News in History, November 3
118 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums...
Good News in History, October 31
On this day, 73 years ago, the British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid was born. Described as the "Queen of Curves," who "liberated architectural geometry, giving...
Scientists Have Created Natural Sponges That Soak Up Nano-Plastics
Chinese scientists have created some experimental sponges out of starch and gelatin that can soak up microplastics which could be adopted in various places...
Good News in History, October 4
108 years ago today, Dinosaur National Monument was established in Colorado and Utah. Dictated into existence by the executive power of the Antiquities Act,...
Oklahoma Zoo Forecasts ‘Cloudy with a chance of cute’ After Rare Clouded Leopard Kitten Born
In August, a clouded leopard mother named Rukai gave birth to a kitten, who's “eating, sleeping and growing,” according to the keepers at the...
Girl Celebrating 7th Birthday Finds 2.95-Carat Diamond in State Park
Whether she likes Disney Princesses or not, a 7-year-old girl was certainly celebrating her birthday like one after finding a 2.95-carat diamond on a...
Stolen Van Gogh Returned by Sherlock Holmes of the Art World–Seized from Museum During COVID
An early van Gogh painting worth millions was stolen during a museum heist in 2020 under the cover of COVID lockdowns, but while the...
Portuguese Man Accidentally Finds 82-Foot-Long Dinosaur in His Backyard
While doing renovations on his property, a Portuguese man stumbled upon a fossilized sauropod that might be the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in...
Good News in History, August 30
187 years ago today, the city of Melbourne was founded in southeast Australia. A traditional meeting place of several Aboriginal peoples including the Boonwurrung,...
Good News in History, August 15
838 years ago today, Queen Tamar of Georgia consecrated the holy cave monastery/city of Vardzia in the mountains of Erusheti on the left bank...
Two Critically Endangered Baby Condors Born in National Park Are Healthy, ‘Adorable Fluffballs’
The National Park Service celebrated the birth of two Critically Endangered chicks—and social media is reveling in their fluff-ball photos.
Deemed to be extinct in...
Good News in History, August 10
120 years ago today, Anthony Pratt was born. Pratt's claim to fame was his conversion of the popular social party game Murder into a...
Alongside What Appears to Be Pizza, Recent Pompeii Excavations Reveal Yet More Hidden Treasures
The discoveries yielded at a new excavation site at the Roman city of Pompeii have everyone talking—about the undeniably familiar shape in a beautifully...
Mythical City of Underground Labyrinths Found Beneath Altar of 15th Century Church in Mexico
Is there anything in science more exciting than when an ancient legend is confirmed by modern research?
Archaeologists in Mexico were able to experience this...
Divers Are About to Pull a 3,000-Year-Old Shipwreck From the Depths
If you have ever taken an interest in underwater archaeology, you'll know that this is a truly astonishingly well-preserved shipwreck.
It must be 200 or...
Good News in History, May 20
80 years ago today, the skeleton of the Luttra Woman, or Hallonflickan (Raspberry woman) was discovered in a bog near Luttra, Sweden. Hers are...
A New Butterfly Has Been Named After The ‘Lord of the Rings’ Villain
A genus of orange and brown butterflies that had been excruciatingly hard to define and separate has been called Saurona after the Dark Lord antagonist...
Scientists Discover Butterflies Originated in America 100 Million Years Ago When Upstart Moths Wanted to Bask in the Sun
Scientists completed a vast evolutionary jigsaw puzzle in 4D—and they discovered that butterflies originated in America around 100 million years ago.
They determined that it...
Good News in History, May 15
626 years ago today, one of the most august figures in East Asian history was born—Sejong the Great—scientist, reformer, and engineer of the Korean...