Far from being the stuff of nightmares, spiders are actually more afraid of you than you are of them.
The surface of an asteroid may not be quite as stable a place to land a spacecraft as previously thought.
New evidence has been found which suggests humans reached South America far earlier than thought.
New studies in to the temperature at the Earth's core have revealed it to be much hotter than thought.
The meat-eating Dahalokely tokana is thought to have roamed the Earth 90 million years ago.
A vast harbor complex thought to be 4,500 years old has been unearthed on the shores of the Red Sea.
Scientists have developed a mind control mechanism allowing a human to control a rat with thought alone.
The skeletal remains of what is thought to be a cross between a human and a Neanderthal have been found.
It is thought that by the year 2100 we will have lost half the languages that are in use today.
The daredevil skydiver is believed to have fallen 15km/h faster than previous measurements indicated.
In a world first, dung beetles are thought to use our own Milky Way galaxy to orient themselves.
Ceramic disks once thought to be game pieces have turned out to be an ancient form of toilet roll.
Pope Benedict has claimed that Jesus was actually born several years earlier than currently thought.
Pinta Island giant tortoise 'Lonesome George' was thought to be the last of his species, but was he ?
Our ancestors used stone-tipped spears to hunt for food more than 200,000 years earlier than thought.
The vast oceans of liquid water believed to exist beneath the ice on Europa may be deeper than thought.
One drunk man at a party in Australia thought it would be a good idea to experiment with fireworks.
Thought to be around 100 years old, Lonesome George was the last Pinta giant tortoise known to exist.
Remains discovered in a 5th century monastary are thought to belong to John the Baptist himself.
Dinosaurs are often portrayed as heavy, lumbering beasts - now it seems that this wasn't the case.