Author name: Karyn Fowler

A passenger on board a Spirit Airlines flight in Florida said she was horrified after spotting several insects crawling inside the plane cabin. Symone Berry told Storyful she was sitting in one of the airline’s “Big Front Seats,” the equivalent of the airline’s first-class seats, on May 11. That’s when she “saw roaches crawling on

A “copy” of the famous document known as a symbol against tyranny and as a “cornerstone of freedom” has been discovered to be authentic. Harvard Law School in 1946 bought a “copy” of the Magna Carta for just $27.50 from a London legal book dealer, Sweet & Maxwell, according to a news release. British researchers from

Paleontologists recently discovered a 506-million-year-old “moth-like” predator that lurked in prehistoric Canada. In a press release from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), officials identified the creature as Mosura fentoni, an extinct anthropoid, as news agencies including SWNS reported. (See the video at the top of this article.)  The museum reported that most of the Mosura fossils

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a Facebook post, which was translated from Arabic to English, on May 3. Officials said that a recent excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site

Archaeologists uncovered disturbing details about a Pompeii family’s fight for survival during the destructive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The Pompeii Archaeological Park announced the recent excavation in a Facebook post in April. Researchers investigated the House of Helle and Phrixus in Pompeii, finding proof of “residents’ attempts to save themselves from the

Lukka Bradburn traveled to rural Japan last year to document abandoned theme parks — and was surprised by what he found left behind in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and after years of decline, according to news agency SWNS. Bradburn, a printer, explorer and father of two, came across the parks after

WARNING: This article contains graphic images. Reader discretion is advised. Researchers have uncovered the reason an “unusual” 18th-century mummy was preserved so well in Austria – and it’s highly abnormal. A study about the mummy was recently published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine. The so-called “air-dried chaplain” is housed in the crypt of the