It is believed that plants first arose on land 100 million years earlier than previous studies had suggested.
The son of a man who found a message in a bottle 60 years ago is now searching for the author's relatives.
Hair belonging to the first ever President of the United States has been found in an 18th-century almanac.
The space rock known as 'Oumuamua is thought to have been tumbling around chaotically for billions of years.
A forensic expert has cast doubt on a 1940s analysis of bones found on a remote island over 70 years ago.
A miniature UFO that allegedly crashed in Yorkshire in 1957 has been rediscovered inside a museum archive.
Scientists have used microlensing to discover planets in a galaxy over 3.8 billion light years away.
The dinosaurs' total domination of our planet may have played a major role in their eventual demise.
The ship tasked with locating the wreck of flight MH370 went dark for several days and nobody knows why.
Scientists have identified a species of long-tailed proto-spider dating back over 100 million years.
The diminishing Arctic sea ice is making it almost impossible for polar bears to satisfy their energy needs.
A prominent US scientist has claimed that a human-chimp hybrid was created in a laboratory in the 1920s.
A photograph taken at Eynsford Castle in Kent, England appears to show a mysterious cloaked figure.
A prehistoric jawbone unearthed in Israel's Misliya Cave is believed to date back up to 200,000 years.
Scientists have identified an area of Australia that broke away from North America 1.7 billion years ago.
The 'Tolkienesque' landscape is made up of 26 underwater volcanoes buried beneath seabed sediment.
1,000 risk management experts from around the world have outlined this year's top man-made threats.
Archaeologists have found the answer to one of the Queen Anne's Revenge's most enduring mysteries.
500 years ago, a deadly epidemic known as 'cocoliztli' killed nearly 80 per cent of the Aztec population.
A fascinating discovery has called in to question everything we know about the evolution of butterflies.