A strange theory has reopened one of anthropology’s most fascinating questions: could a tiny, human-like species still be hiding in the caves of Indonesia’s Flores Island? Anthropologist Gregory Forth believes that a creature described as half human and half ape may still exist somewhere in the mountain caves there, according to Popular Mechanics. The idea…

For years, a quiet burial ground in northern Poland has been offering an unusual glimpse into the anxieties of people who lived centuries ago. The cemetery, near the village of Pień, is not remarkable because of its size alone, although archaeologists have now documented more than 100 burials there. What has drawn wider attention is…

Beavers are finally released at Boothby Wildland. Photograph: Jonathan Perugia/Gaia Visual for Nattergal A bold experiment in Lincolnshire (County in England) is showing that restoring British nature can become a highly profitable business, with a planned beaver colony at the centre of a multimillion-pound land transformation, reports the Guardian.Four years after conservation company Nattergal bought…

Israel’s Mossad allegedly tried to recruit Iran’s former president Ahmadinejad Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad allegedly spent years trying to recruit former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as part of a broader plan to overthrow Iran’s leadership and eventually install him as the country’s new leader.The New York Times report, citing American and Iranian officials familiar with…

TCS techie Navdeep Sharma filed a lawsuit over delay in H-1B visa approval. An Indian techie, separated from his wife and children for over 18 months because of the visa refusals he’s facing in India, has sued several US officials but a district court dismissed his lawsuit and said the court understood the situation with…