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MARYSVILLE, Calif. There’s a big mystery in the Northern
California woods. Is a Bigfoot living in a national forest? John Iander
of CBS station KOVR-TV in Sacramento, Calif., reports that a California
couple has found big prints in the woods and experts are saying it may
not be a hoax.
It
was just after a rainstorm, a great time for hunting […]

A former Canadian defence minister says be believes advanced
technology from extraterrestrial civilizations offers the best hope to
“save our planet” from the perils of climate change.
Paul
Hellyer, 83, is calling for a public disclosure of alien technology
obtained during alleged UFO crashes — such as the mysterious 1947
incident in Roswell, New Mexico — because he believes alien species
can […]

Horse figures painted on rock formations in Eskişehir are the oldest in Anatolia, according to new archaeological research.
  The
research revealed that the first known horse figures date back to 6,000
B.C. and that the area was settled in the early Neolithic period. The
excavation and studies of Anatolia in Eskişehir’s Sivrihisar district
were conducted jointly by Eskişehir-based Anadolu University and the
Eskişehir […]

Hunting for traces of life
on Mars calls for two radically different strategies, says ASU
professor Jack Farmer. Of the two, he says, with today’s exploration
technology we can most easily look for evidence for past life,
preserved as fossil “biosignatures” in old rocks.
Farmer is a
professor of geological sciences in ASU’s School of Earth and Space
Exploration, where he heads […]

The only Roman emperor’s sceptre to have been found has gone on public display in Rome for the first time.
The
sceptre, which is topped by a blue orb that represents the earth, was
discovered at the end of last year and is believed to have been held by
Emperor Maxentius, who ruled for six years until 312AD.
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A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable
playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their
natural jungle habitat in Indonesia’s tropical rainforests.
The
friendship between 5-month-old female baby primates Nia and Irma, and
cubs Dema and Manis, has blossomed at the Taman Safari zoo where they
share a room in the nursery.
After being abandoned […]

No, this isn’t an upside-down rainbow, and the photographer hasn’t faked
the picture. It’s an unusual phenomenon caused by sunlight shining through a
thin, invisible screen of tiny ice crystals high in the sky and has nothing at
all to do with the rain.

Andrew G. Saffas, a Concord artist and photographer, saw the colorful arc
at 3:51 p.m. on […]

When many think of Paganism, it’s easy to jump straight to magic spells, tarot cards and other sorts of hocus pocus.
For
Simon L. Delott, a junior double major in secondary education and
philosophy and religion, being a Pagan is more of a religious
experience.

Delott became a Pagan in high school shortly after he researched the religion for […]

Construction on a giant underground laboratory that
will help take physics into a new era reaches a major milestone on
Wednesday.

From 0500 GMT, a crane will lower 2,000 tonnes of machinery into a man-made cavern 100m below ground.

The machinery is part of the Compact Muon Solenoid
(CMS), one of four big experiments belonging to the world’s most
powerful particle […]

“It is well known that the ancient
Egyptians built the pyramids; they regarded these structures as a
national project for ancient Egypt,” said Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary
General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Hawass filed an official complaint to the Egyptian attorney general
of Egypt against a Cairo high school for teaching the students that it
was the Israelites who […]