Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...

Why it's incredible: El Cono stands alone in the rainforest and has a mysterious pyramidal shape. Cerro El Cono is a 1,310-foot-tall (400 meters), pyramid-like formation in the Amazon rainforest. It ...

Claims of an ancient pyramid in Antarctica grew out of fiction, conspiracy theories, and later Google Earth speculation, but the feature itself is best explained as a naturally eroded mountain.

This pyramid-shaped creature is a rarely seen type of sea urchin that lives in the deep ocean, NOAA Ocean Exploration reports. NOAA Ocean Exploration photo A small “pyramid-shaped” object found 2.5 ...