CNN – Offbeat

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An exoplanet the size of Jupiter has long intrigued astronomers because of its scorching temperatures,…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The eyed needle — a sewing tool made of bones, antlers or ivory that first appeared around 40,000 years ago in…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The grasslands, glaciers and snow-tipped peaks of the Tibetan Plateau are breathtaking, but the vast expanse in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When NASA scientists recently tracked the orbits of two space rocks as they made close approaches of Earth,…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Set atop a hill on the Italian island of Sicily, Agrigento is a heritage tourist’s paradise. Beneath the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Buried deep in an Australian cave, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that an Aboriginal ritual may have been…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When Hurricane Ida battered Louisiana with catastrophic flooding and powerful winds in August 2021, more than 1…

By Katie Hunt and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Humans aren’t the only ones capable of performing amputations to save lives. Florida carpenter ants have…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Denisovans survived and thrived on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau for more than 100,000 years, according to a new…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In the first week of a new Trump administration, President Joe Biden’s climate wins would get put through the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Grapes have been intertwined with the story of humanity for millennia, providing the basis for wines produced…

By Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — The government of China now possesses something that no other humans have ever encountered — rocks and soil…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Painted lady butterflies venture far and wide with their impressive migratory patterns that stretch…

By Nic Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Molly Parren was tracking a wood turtle in Vermont when she smelled something surprising, yet familiar. The…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — History is full of vanished arts and techniques that researchers are still trying to crack, such as…