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Archaeologist Silke Lange and a co-worker handle a 16th-century Dutch clog, which was found in a cesspool in Alkmaar, at a laboratory in Zaandam, Netherlands, December 20, 2024. — Reuters AMSTERDAM: The Dutch are known worldwide for their wooden shoes, but the recent rare discovery...

Researchers stand behind glass fencing as they show the carcass of a baby mammoth during a demonstration in laboratory of Mammoth Museum at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, on December 23, 2024. —Reuters Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a...

Cheng Chen Chin-Mei, 90, lifts 45kg as she breaks her personal record, at a weightlifting competition in Taipei, Taiwan December 21, 2024. — Reuters TAIPEI: Cheng Chen Chin-Mei beamed broadly as she hoisted a 35kg weightlifting bar to her waist, dropped it and waved...

A specimen of spiny mouse , a species discovered on a Conservation International Rapid Assessment expedition into the Alto Mayo Landscape in Peru, is pictured, June 16, 2022. — Reuters/Conservation International LIMA: An "amphibious mouse" with partially webbed feet that eats...

Two of the statues in the city of Bend, Oregon pictured with googly eyes sticking on them. — Facebook/City of Bend, Oregon Government US city of Oregon has requested its residents to stop sticking googly eyes on the city’s art pieces such as statues and...

Image shows gold tongues and gold nails that were found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. — Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The discovery of 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and nails in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus has been done by the archeologists in...

A postal worker makes a delivery in London, Britain, July 21, 2022. — Reuters A resident of Penarth, a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, was recently left puzzled when he recieved a letter which was actually meant for an address over 10,500 miles away in...

A heron with a plastic cup stuck through its throat stands on the banks of Morto river, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 6, 2024. —Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO: A heron took flight in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, stretching its wings and soaring over a river after veterinarians saved...

A 66-year-old British man, Philip Stevens. — Legal firm Leigh Day handout A British man has received a £70,000 settlement from his doctor after claiming that medication prescribed for restless leg syndrome caused him to develop compulsive gambling and shopping habits, his...

An undated image shows two of the rare fossils from the two Allosaurus displayed for auction at Christie's in London, United Kingdom. — X/@ChristiesInc Fossils from three rare dinosaurs — two Allosaurus and one Stegosaurus — fetched a staggering $15.7 million at a recent...

The logo of Google is seen at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, June 14, 2023. — Reuters Google's Year in Search report reveals that people around the globe were tuning in for updates on the...

Chinese runner He Jie , Ethiopian Dejene Hailu Bikila and Kenyans Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat at the finish line of the Beijing Half Marathon on April 14, 2024. — Reuters HONG KONG: A half marathon in China's northeast province of Jilin announced an unusual selection of prizes,...

The rare Roman coin seen in this undated image. — AFP/File A rare Roman coin featuring the portrait of Brutus, the assassin of statesman Julius Caesar, sold Monday at a Geneva auction for 1.98 million euros, according to organiser Numismatica Genevensis. The historic item...

The newly discovered ancient Egyptian temple. — Facebook/Archaeology Magazine/file Archaeologists have found an ancient Egyptian temple hidden in a cliff face dating back around 2,100 years at the site of Athribis. Athribis is located near the modern-day city of Sohag...

A close-up photo of the 50,000-year-old hand axe. — Worthing Museum and Art Gallery/file A then six-year-old boy found a strange rock on a beach in Sussex, England and didn’t tell anyone for the next three years, having lost track of it. The rock has now been identified as a...

A combo of the wedding pictures of Marjorie Fiterman and Bernie Littman, world's oldest newlyweds. — Guinness World Record/file A 100-year-old man and a 102-year-old woman have gotten married and become the oldest newlyweds of the world earning them a Guinness World...

A Stegosaurus fossil nicknamed Apex is unveiled to the media at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, US, December 5, 2024. — Reuters The American Museum of Natural History revealed the identity of its latest resident on Thursday — "Apex," one of the most...

An illustration shows a group of Western Clovis people, including a mother with her 18-month-old son, about 12,800 years ago at a site in Montana, as they process the carcasses of hunted mammoths near the end of the last Ice Age. — Reuters/File The first humans who spread across...

Panda sculptures displayed at the Hong Kong International Airport during a welcome ceremony of the panda-themed exhibition "Panda Go!" in Hong Kong on December 2, 2024. — Instagram/@newgovhk If you are travelling to Hong Kong this weekend, then you are in for a special...

An asteroid lights up the sky in Lensk, Sakha Republic, Russia, December 4, 2024, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video. — Reuters An asteroid lit up the sky in Russia's remote far eastern region of Yakutia early on Wednesday, producing a fireball before likely burning up...

A worker wearing a protective suit harvests potato tubers at a greenhouse under Yakeshi Senfeng Potato Industry Company in Yakeshi, Inner Mongolia, China, June 16, 2024. — Reuters In a research facility in the northwest of Beijing, molecular biologist Li Jieping and his team harvest...

The "tiger" snake seen in the car of the driver and Tim, the snake catcher, putting the fourth most venomous snake in a bag in Victoria, Australia. — Victoria Police/file Victoria police had to carry out a “bizarre” welfare check after a venomous tiger snake slithered...