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13-year-old Yair Whiteson was hiking with his father on Mount Carmel in Israel when he discovered a bronze ring that’s likely 1,800 years old. The ancient ring has an engraving of a goddess of war from Roman mythology. It also dates back to that period. The Whitesons were out for Read more…

Eyner Eugenio Quispe is a coffee farmer in Bolivia. When he saw a strange animal poking its head out of a hole near a natural spring on his property, he decided to start recording. What Quispe didn’t know was that he was filming an extremely rare animal, the Amazon weasel, Read more…

A member of the public Bigfoot Believers Facebook group posted a photo of a creature walking through a wooded area. It’s a relatively small creature, and even the deer in the foreground of the photo seem confused by what it is. Has someone spotted a baby Bigfoot? The poster, Stephanie Read more…

A Texas family was enjoying summer this past weekend, swimming and barbecuing, when they saw a baby bird on the ground. The bird was alone and looked like it needed the warmth of its mother and nest. Unfortunately, with no mother birds or nests available, the family considered what they Read more…

A new Grand Canyon didn’t open up in the middle of the country, but the U.S. officially has a new national park unit. Today, the National Park Service (NPS) announced the formal establishment of the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas as a National Historic Site and therefore the U.S.’s latest Read more…

Scientists across the globe have only ever collected six spade-toothed whales, and no one has ever recorded seeing one alive. So when one of these extremely rare whales washed ashore in New Zealand, the scientific community became very excited. On July 4, New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) says a Read more…

Isaac Spotts caught an amazing interaction on film as he was photographing two brown bear cubs in Alaska. In the video, which already has over 35,000 likes, the young grizzlies play with each other—at times gently, almost sweetly, and at times aggressively. The grizzly cubs are practicing for life as Read more…

When a 13-year-old boy started down a zipline in Costa Rica, the last thing he expected was to “clock” a sloth straight in the face. But that’s what happened, and the person behind him caught the whole thing on video. How long do you think the zipliners had to wait Read more…

Tom Waddington is currently solo rowing the north Atlantic Ocean, and he recently found himself far from alone—pilot whales swarmed him, and he got it on camera. His social media manager posted the video to Waddington’s Instagram account, which he’s managing while Waddington is on his expedition. In the video, Read more…