Over the last 30 years, scientists have succeeded in identifying a staggering 5,000 planets in distant solar systems.
New research has indicated that our ancestors lived alongside these gargantuan mammals until relatively recently.
According to reports, Margaret Thatcher's government once planned to use trained dolphins to hunt the Loch Ness Monster.
The historic Incan site might not have actually been called Macchu Picchu by its inhabitants.
A radical new theory aims to solve many of the universe's biggest mysteries, including dark matter.
As if a regular Hummer isn't big enough, the Hummer H1 X3 makes all other cars look like small models.
Anthropologist David Akins believes that the world-famous relic may have actually been made in England.
The iconic vessel has finally been discovered in the waters off Antarctica some 106 years after it sank.
As if one spider wasn't bad enough - imagine being set upon by 1,000 of them in a giant web...
With a wingspan greater than that of an entire football field, this gargantuan aircraft is a sight to behold.
A tiny island off the north-west coast of Scotland was once the site of a deadly germ warfare experiment.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil of a giant winged reptile on Scotland's Isle of Skye.
Guinness World Records has officially recognized the gargantuan berry as the heaviest ever recorded.
There's a 500lb bear on the loose in California and it is doing more than just stealing picnic baskets.
The search involved scouring the heavens with the Murchison Widefield Array telescope.
Revealed by the Israel Antiquities Authority back in December, the ring shows a shepherd boy holding a sheep.
Artist Concetta Antico has a view of the world unlike any other thanks to a unique feature of her eyes.
The mysterious object, which mirrored the pilot's movements, was captured on camera.
A video clip of a deer leaping so high in the air that it appears to be flying has emerged online this week.
The 57-year-old became the first person ever to undergo the transplant.