Another UFO Report Is a Bust. So Why Do So Many People Still Believe the Truth Is Out There?  Gizmodo

Second ‘High-Altitude Object’ Shot Down by U.S. Military in Less Than a Week  Gizmodo

FBI, Air Force Agents Mysteriously Raid House of Guy Who Runs Area 51 Blog  Gizmodo

UFO Documentary Moment of Contact Investigates a Real-Life X-File  Gizmodo

Anthropologists know that 50,000 years ago, the islands of southeast Asia were home to two species of small humans aka “Hobbits.” While there is no decisive evidence to explain their origin, there are indications they were related to Denisovans and Neanderthals, with interbreeding between the three early human species. Work continues to uncover the elusive […]

Anyone ever says cryptozoology never contributed anything to the greyface sciences, show them Isaac Schultz’s piece on the potential for extant Tasmanian tigers. A bunch of boffins trawled scores of thylacine sightings, compared, and ranked them in the hopes of determining if everyone’s favorite cryptid did indeed vanish in 1936 with provocative results. As for […]

Here’s some fishy news from the world of genetics. The coelacanth was considered an extinct species until a living specimen was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938. Scientists referred to it as a Living Fossil because it seemed nearly identical to the species found in fossil records. Turns out scientists were wrong […]

Did University of Zurich and Chicago discover new physics? Maybe dark matter? Eggheads are still puzzling over the data, as there’s an excess of observed events than expected in their quest for our universe’s missing matter. It’s a bit of a challenging read but Ryan F. Mandelbaum distills things down to brass tacks well enough. […]

It’s an asteroid, but it’s also a comet, and it’s haunting Jupiter’s neighborhood. Active asteroids are nothing new, but to find one parked within Jupiter’s orbit has astronomers and George Dvorsky scratching their heads as to what it may be. For more mysterious news that’s out of this world, we urge you to visit Mysterious […]

Add another area to the “four independent regions where humans first began cultivating crops.” That’s the gist of George Dvorsky’s article on a report in the journal Nature. The study also tends to support an earlier date for the peopling of the Americas. Another find may push back an origin story as much as 20,000 […]