A unique whale song is recorded in Antarctica, perhaps from a new species

By Brian C. Muraresku

Several years ago, a young man bow-fishing on New Jersey’s Raritan river spotted a long, thin creature in the murky water. He shot the animal through the neck, reeled it in, and posed for photographs. Eventually a friend posted one to Reddit. Within days...

“If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure and structure alone."

It’s not every day you see Earth’s (maybe) only black flamingo.

A bizarre medieval manuscript written in a language no one can read has baffled the world’s best cryptologists, stumped the most powerful code-breaking computers, and been written off as a masterful hoax. Can the hive mind finally unlock its secrets?

"If you can't find me," Meng Zhaoguo said over a cell phone whose signal faded from its isolation, "Just head to the last house on the logging commune lane. Or ask anyone who's around." Everyone knows the first Chinese person to allegedly be abducted by aliens.

In the 1970s, scientists noticed that soft-shell clams along the east coast of North America were dying from a strange type of cancer. Their blood, which was typically clear, would fill with so many cells that it would turn milky. The rogue cells clogged and infiltrated the clams’ organs, often killing them. This cancer—this clam leukaemia—seemed to be transmissible...

I met with the world’s leading Atlantologist to separate fact from myth. By Mark Adams

In 2000 Mike Anderson was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 13 years in prison. But he never went to prison. Law enforcement should have picked Mike up, but for reasons that are still unclear, that never happened. So during those 13 years he turned his life around: he got married, became a father of four and started his own business. He never had another run-in with the law. The Missouri Department of Corrections only realized its mistake when they were preparing to release Mike

Robert Bruno labored for decades to build one of America’s most striking houses, but died before he could complete it. Is there a way to preserve his work and legacy?

Queen Elizabeth I’s court advisor was the foremost scientific genius of the 16th century, laying the foundation of modern science. Then teamed up with a disreputable, criminal psychic and things really got rolling.

Here’s what they don’t teach: When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a pacifist, socialist path that broke the boundaries of her time—and continues to challenge ours today.

Much as believers in fairy folk, elves, dwarves, leprechauns, etcetera, may seem to you like simpletons holding onto ancient superstition, you should first know that every myth contains at least a small kernel of truth.

Mary Heaster was crushed by the strange death of her daughter – until her daughter's spirit, the Greenbrier Ghost, appeared to tell her she'd been murdered.

Researchers at the University of Nottingham say a thousand year old recipe may offer hope in the fight against antibiotic resistant ‘super bugs’. So what other super-remedies might we find in the history of medicine?

Two men who look almost identical and have shadowed each others' lives for years have finally met after a chance encounter on a coach trip to London

Scientists are baffled by a mysterious illness that has sent hundreds of people into days-long slumbers

Robots came to Europe before the dawn of the mechanical age. To a medieval world, they were indistinguishable from magic

The images in Tarot function much the way dreams do in psychoanalysis, providing a symbolic and interpretable language for the elusive shape of our lives. By Christopher Benfey