The eight-year-old was looking for a stick or a rock to throw, instead she grabbed a 1500-year-old relic!
History


Hey, kids! Come meet Big Bird!

Did we forget to mention that it’s not the Sesame Street icon but Vorombe titan, a 10-foot tall prehistoric beast, instead? Oooops…


Odd prehistoric dinner plate actually earliest known animal

No, this wasn’t a Triceratops feeding dish! In fact, it’s nearly three times as old as any dinosaur fossil!


73,000 year-old prehistoric drawing is the earliest found

The tiny collection of lines is about 30,000 years older than the oldest previous finds … but what does it mean?


Ancient Egyptian tomb is opened to the public

4,300 year-old tomb belonged to a senior official named Mehu and was just opened to boost tourism


Fossils reveal fascinating behaviour of ancient parisitoid wasps

Studies show that these prehistoric insects behaved much like their modern descendants