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Remains of Arctic House
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Easter Island Statues
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Ahu Akivi is an ahu with seven moai on Rapa Nui on Easter Island in Chilean Polynesia. How were these moved and built by these ancient people?
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Mysterious Easter Island
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Chupacabra
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...But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.
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Texas Woman Claims To Have Found Mythical Chupacabra
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Dead Black Chupacabra
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Teen Kills Chupacabra
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LA SALLE, Texas
A Texas teenager has shot a strange animal he believes may be a chupacabra.
Carter Pope, 13, said he woke up Sunday at his home in La Salle and saw a strange animal walking across his backyard...
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Texas Teen Believes He Killed A Chupacabra
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Chupacabras In D.C.Suburbs?
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There's an animal lurking in the woods near Prince George's Hospital Center, and no one is quite sure what it is. Prince George's Hospital Center workers have adopted a mythical creature as their new mascot.
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Chupacabras In D.C Suburbs?
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Mummified Chupacabra
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The Okapi
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When we think of cryptozoology, we usually think of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness Monster, creatures that are - let's face it - probably legendary. But some cryptids are real: just ask the platypus, okapi, and giant squid.
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Legendary Cryptids That Turned Out To Be Real
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Mysterious Winged Creature
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The photo released by IRNA shows a dinosaur-like bird's carcass found in northwestern Iran.The dead body of a strange dinosaur-like bird has reportedly been found near the city of Meshginshahr in the northwestern Iranian province of Ardebil.
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Mysterious Winged Creature Found in Iran
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The Montauk Monster
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New York's celebrity-obsessed Hamptons summer season got even sillier this week when a strange-looking, very dead creature washed up on a beach in Montauk at the far eastern end of New York's Long Island.
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The Montauk Monster
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Giant Footprints
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Local residents of Shenmu County in China's Shaanxi Province consider a mountain cliff named "Dragon Head" to be a mysterious forbidden place due to some huge footprints of unknown origin. They believe those footprints are the traces of their ancestors or even some gods from Heaven.
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Ancient Giant Footprints Found In China
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Mutilated Sheep
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Kongamoto-like Skeleton
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Deep in the bush of east central Africa, lives a beaked, flying creature called the Kongamato. The Kongamato ("overwhelmer of boats"), is described as a large, reddish creature with leathery wings, devoid of feathers.
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Kongamoto- Terror in the Congo
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Mongolian Deathworm
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The Mongolian death worm is a creature purported to exist in the Gobi Desert. It is generally considered a cryptid: one whose sightings and reports are disputed or unconfirmed. It is described as a bright red worm with a wide body that is 2 to 5 feet (0.6 to 1.5 m) long.
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Mongolian Death Worm
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Skeleton of Giant Charles Byrne
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Despite claims that he towered more than eight feet tall, skeletal evidence shows his height to have been just over seven feet seven inches.Celebrity life eventually got the better of Byrne, who took to drink and died at his home in Charing Cross aged just 22.
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Giant Race Came From Mutant Gene
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Unknown Being?
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Mysterious Creature
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8,500 Year Old Remains
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IZMIR- Anatolia News Agency
An archaeological dig in Izmir's Yesilova district has revealed fingerprints dating back to the Neolithic age close to nine millennia ago. No other place in the area has such a long history of human settlement, a scholar says.
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8,500-year-old Fingerprints Unearthed In Western City
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Pompeii's Actual Victims, Preserved
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Many didn't have the chance to flee the volcano as it spewed ash 20 miles into the air like rain. They tried their best to huddle and protect loved ones from the impending doom of destruction. It wasn't enough. In 79 A.D. Mt. Vesuvius erupted, killing those in Pompeii and its sister city Herculaneum.
Everything was buried under a mountain of ash.
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City of Destruction: The Final Moments of Pompeii
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View of The Armenian Stonehenge
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They sit like soldiers on a hill, huddled in formation. The 204 stones near Sissian have been ascribed with mystical, fertility and cosmic powers, but rarely have ancient monuments caused such a sensation in astronomical circles.
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The Mysteries Of Armenia's Stonehenge
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Ancient Roman Sword
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(AP) JERUSALEM - The excavation of an ancient drainage tunnel beneath Jerusalem has yielded a sword, oil lamps, pots and coins abandoned during a war here 2,000 years ago, archaeologists said Monday, suggesting the finds were debris from a pivotal episode in the city's history when rebels hid from Roman soldiers crushing a Jewish revolt.
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Ancient Jerusalem Tunnels Reveal Roman and Jewish Artifacts
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Mayan Cenote Victim
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The bones of six humans,including two children,jade beads, shells, and stone tools are among the Maya "treasures" recently found in a water-filled cave off a sinkhole at the famous archaeological site of Chichan Itza in Mexico, archaeologists say.
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Six Bodies, Some Children, Found in Mayan Sinkhole
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Mayan Tomb
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A tiny remote-controlled camera peered inside the tomb of a Mayan ruler that has been sealed for 1,500 years, revealing red frescoes, pottery and pieces of a funerary shroud made of jade and mother of pearl. The tomb was discovered in 1999 inside a pyramid among the ruins of the Mayan city of Palenque in the hills of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
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Tiny Camera Peers Inside Mayan Tomb Sealed for 1,500 Years
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Buried Mayan Skeleton
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A group of archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently found 116 burial sites dating back more than 1,000 years. The sites are close to a Mayan archaeological site in Mexico's southern region.
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Over 100 Mayan Burial Sites Found
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10,000 Year Clock
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This is the vision of inventor Danny Hillis, industrial designer Alexander Rose, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, and a team of dedicated scientists, machinists and futurists who have designed ? and are currently building, they announced Friday a 10,000 year clock in the middle of nowhere.
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Building for the Future: The 10,000 Year Clock-
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