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In 1937, American explorer Bradford Washburn abandoned a cache of heavy equipment, including cameras, while attempting to climb Mount Lucania in the Saint Elias Mountains of northwestern Canada. Washburn and his friend Bob Bates had to make their way back to civilization through the harsh Yukon wilderness when the weather made it unsafe for a pilot to pick them up, as chronicled in “Escape from Lucania,” a book by David Roberts. Two sentences of that book stuck in the mind of professional skier Griffin Post: According to Roberts, Washburn was heartbroken to leave behind his cameras and always wanted to go back to get them. So Post set out to do it for him, 15 years after his death — and 85 years after the equipment was abandoned. Bradford Washburn’s camera from a 1937 expedition discovered on Walsh Glacier. Leslie Hittmeier/Teton Gravity Research He got in touch with Luke Copland, a glaciologist at the University of Ottawa, to help figure out wh...

She’s the Queensland outback property owner with a penchant for amateur palaeontology. But now Cassandra Prince, from the McKinlay area about 200km east of Mount Isa, has made a discovery that’s being compared to the archaeology’s famous Rosetta Stone. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: How a Queensland property owner discovered of 100-million-year-old creature Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Prince, along with two other like-minded friends who form an amateur palaeontology posse self-titled the “Rock Chicks”, discovered the remains of a 100-million-year-old long-necked marine reptile on her sprawling remote station. The discovery of the complete skeleton of an ancient plesiosaur, or extinct marine reptile, is an Australian first. A team of museum palaeontologists travelled to the remote site to collect the fossil of the elasmosaur, a type of plesiosaur that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The elasmosaur lived in the Eromanga Sea, which covered large parts of inland Au...

The origin of a huge piece of space junk that washed up on a WA beach earlier this month is a mystery no more, with authorities confirming it came from an Indian rocket. State and federal agencies spent a little over two weeks working to find exactly where the large metallic cylinder discovered near Green Head, 50km north of Perth on the state’s Mid West coast, came from. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Authorities investigate mystery object in WA. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> On Monday the Australian Space Agency (ASA) confirmed what many space enthusiasts had theorised, concluding it was “most likely debris from an expended third-stage of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle”. “The PSLV is a medium-lift launch vehicle operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation,” the agency said. The ASA previously flagged the device could be part of a space vehicle, while authorities were quick to say they were working on the premise the barnacle-encrusted ...

The pioneering mummy blogger Heather Armstrong, who laid bare her struggles as a parent and her battles with depression and alcoholism on her site Dooce.com and on social media, has died at 47. Armstrong’s boyfriend, Pete Ashdown, told The Associated Press that he found her Tuesday night at their Salt Lake City home. She had two children with her former husband and business partner, Jon Armstrong, before she began Dooce in 2001 and built it into a lucrative career. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> She was one of the first and most popular mummy blogger s, writing frankly about her children, relationships and other challenges at a time that personal blogs were on the rise. She parlayed her successes with the blog, on Instagram and elsewhere into book deals, putting out a memoir in 2009, It Sucked and then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown and a Much Needed Margarita. That year, Armstrong appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and was on the Forb...

Footage of a mammoth wasp nest found in a Victorian home has gone viral online, with the pest control company tasked to deal with the nest describing the discovery as “terrifying”. Pest management company DAP Pest Control posted the original footage of the nest on its social media pages in March 2022. In the video, pest controller Dale Armel shows an abandoned house in Healesville infested with European wasps. Walking through the house, he makes his way to a bathroom which has become home to a giant nest hanging from the ceiling. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> “Oh my god,” he says in the video. “It’s like an alien. If you could see this with your own eyes, it’s actually terrifying. “This is something I’ve never seen before.” The nest had grown inside an abandoned house’s bathroom. Credit: TikTok According to pest controller Dale Armel, up to a thousand wasps may have been living inside the nest. Credit: Facebook The footage captured by the company has...