Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either

Visitors at the Museum for Prehistory in Eyzies-de-Tayac look at a reconstruction of a Neanderthal man. Spanish researchers say they have fo...

The rat that's the size of a cat: BBC team discovers 40 new species in 'lost world'

No fear: The rat is not afraid of humans, which could make it vulnerable A bizarre jungle spider camouflaged as lichen Rats as big as cats, ...

Midgard

Midgard is a realm in Norse mythology. Pictured as placed somewhere in the middle of Yggdrasil, Midgard is surrounded by a world of water, o...

Real Middle Earth

Middle-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented mythology centred on an epic story of the struggle between Good and Evil, but it also included an el...

The Battle of Ragnarok

Ragnarok, sometimes called the Twilight of the Gods, is the final cataclysm that will destroy this world and the gods. After three terrible ...

The World Tree Myth

According to the Norse poem The Lay of Grimnir, “Of all trees, Yggdrasil is the best.” Yggdrasil is a huge ash tree that stands at the cente...

Ahura Mazda and Ahriman

When it was time for the twins to be born, Zurvan promised that his first-born should rule the world. Ahura Mazda, who was gifted with fores...