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A birthday invitation penned on a thin wood tablet found at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in the UK. — The Print Collector/File A wooden tablet that has the earliest known example of Latin written by a woman, Claudia Severa, has been found. The invite,...

Some of the fur seal pups swimming about and resting in an inlet at the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge off the coast of San Francisco. — Facebook/US Fish and Wildlife Service More than 400 pups of seals were found just resting in an inlet at the Farallon Islands National...

The marked snails pictured in this undated photograph. — Chester Zoo/File About 1,329 pea sized critically endangered snails bred in a zoo have been set free on a remote Atlantic island to roam as they please. The release of the snails brings back two species of Desertas...

A representational image of pink cotton candy. — Unsplash/File Competitive eater takes home a Guinness World Record title after consuming 49 grams of green cotton candy in 60 seconds. According to adjudicator David Wilson, Leah Shutveker, the speed eater, needed to...

With Nepal's snowy Himalayan peaks as a backdrop, the sky above Pokhara transformed into a vibrant canvas of colours for the country's first hot-air balloon festival. Tourism is a major earner for Nepal, which saw over a million foreign visitors this year after a post-pandemic...

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...