Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then West Berlin in 1959. Ahead of her official birthday on Saturday, keepers on Friday served up a treat of fruit and vegetables. Vet Andre ...
This gaming die is recognized as the oldest known gaming tool to date. Archaeological evidence traces the existence of similar dice back to as early as 2000 BCE. 13th century era die unearthed in ...
A group of scientists finds the oldest signal of the planet’s magnetic field in the the Isua Greenstone Belt in Greenland ...
The world's oldest known wild bird may have lost her mate, but she was recently seen courting new suitors. The Laysan albatross, or mōlī, known as Wisdom has been photographed dancing with ...
Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered what could be the oldest known piece of fermented bread made by humans at a site dating back to around 6,600 BC. The piece of bread was discovered in Turkey ...
British man John Alfred Tinniswood, 111, has been confirmed as the world's oldest man by Guinness World Records. It follows the death of the Venezuelan record-holder, Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, who ...
(WJW) – The world’s oldest known wild bird was photographed at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in March. Wisdom, who is a beloved Laysan albatross, or mōlī, is in her 70s.
A week after that stunning total solar eclipse, the Lyrid meteor shower is about to give sky-gazers plenty of reasons to once again look toward the cosmos. One of the oldest-known meteor showers ...
One of the earliest books in existence is expected to fetch upwards of $2.6m when it goes up for auction later this year. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, which was written in Coptic on papyrus in Egypt ...
The Great North American eclipse is history but skywatchers have another treat ahead: the Lyrid meteor shower. The Lyrid meteor shower runs from April 15 to April 29, peaking in the late evening ...
We haven’t experienced a major meteor shower since the Quadrantids ended in early January, but the annual meteor drought has officially ended with the Lyrids now in action. Here’s what you ...