A 2022 artifact discovery has turned the “Coastal Migration” theory on its head. For decades, scientists believed the first Americans traveled down the Pacific coast by boat.
In 2019, a survey crew mapping a dried lake bed in New Mexico noticed faint depressions in the cracked mud that resembled human footprints. The team initially assumed the prints were recent, left by hikers days earlier. Radiocarbon and pollen dating later placed them at roughly 23,000 years old, thousands of years before humans were believed to have been present in that region.The site is White Sa…
A massive anomaly just appeared beneath New Mexico, and scientists are scrambling to explain it. Ground-penetrating scans revealed a vast, unexplained structure deep below the desert surface, far larger than any known natural formation.
The ground beneath Cornwall contains more than 20,000 abandoned mine shafts, relics of the region’s 18th- and 19th-century mining boom. Many were never properly mapped or secured, and some have begun to fail. In February 2020, a section of garden in Camborne collapsed after a storm toppled a tree. The hole initially measured about three feet wide but grew over the following days to the size of a s…