A startling discovery in Oregon is now challenging the very timeline of human origins. Archaeologists uncovered ancient fossilized footprints that appear to push back the arrival of humans in the Americas by thousands of years, far earlier than long-held scientific models permitted.
In 2008, researchers reported finding fossilized human feces in a cave in southern Oregon dating to roughly 14,300 years ago. The finding challenged the long-held scientific consensus that humans first arrived in the Americas around 13,000 years ago. The material was found in the Paisley Five Mile Point Caves in Lake County, a series of shallow openings in a volcanic ridge near the dried bed of Su…
A fishing crew off Australia claims a 115-foot Megalodon shadowed their boat, a prehistoric predator long thought extinct. The massive shadow reportedly circled them for nearly an hour, matching the
Buried in a cliff on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, paleontologists dig for clues to the biggest and baddest shark that ever lived. Megalodon. But in 1918, off the wild coast of Australia, a crew of hardened fishermen claimed they met it face to face.The morning started like any other for the crayfish fishermen operating out of Port Stevens, New South Wales. The waters around Broughton Island were…