National Geographic recently listed their top ten news stories of 2007.
| 10. Meteor Crash in Peru Caused Mysterious Illness (September 21, 2007) Headaches and nausea in residents who visited the impact crater were caused by arsenic fumes from a rare kind of meteorite, scientists announced. |
| | 9. Jesus' Tomb Found in Israel, Filmmakers Claim (February 26, 2007) A tomb that once held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth—and those of his wife and son—has been found in a suburb of Jerusalem, according to the makers of a controversial film. |
| | 8. Interspecies Sex: Evolution's Hidden Secret? (March 14, 2007) Hybridization is not only widespread in nature, but it might also spawn many more new species than previously thought, a new study says. |
| | 7. Huge Underground "Ocean" Found Beneath Asia (February 27, 2007) A giant blob of water the size of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered hundreds of miles beneath eastern Asia, scientists report. |
| | 6. "Dinosaur Mummy" Found; Has Intact Skin, Tissue (December 3, 2007) Scientists announced the discovery of an extraordinarily preserved "dinosaur mummy"—a 67-million-year-old hadrosaur with much of its tissues and bones still encased in an uncollapsed envelope of skin. |
| | 5. Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found, Team Says (November 7, 2007) Almost a century after a mysterious explosion in Russia flattened a huge swath of Siberian forest, scientists have found what they believe is a crater made by the cosmic object that created the blast. |
| | 4. Stonehenge Settlement Found: Builders' Homes, "Cult Houses" (January 30, 2007) A major prehistoric village unearthed near Stonehenge likely housed the builders of the famous monument, archaeologists say, and was an important ceremonial site. |
| | 3. Mass Plague Graves Found on Venice "Quarantine" Island (August 29, 2007) Ancient mass graves containing more than 1,500 victims of the bubonic plague have been discovered on a small island in Italy's Venetian Lagoon. |
| | 2. Monster Glowing Squid Caught on Camera (February 14, 2007) Monster-size, deep-sea squid that use their glowing arms to blind and stun their prey have been filmed in the wild for the first time off southeastern Japan, scientists say. |
| | 1. Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says (February 28, 2007) Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human-induced—cause, according to a controversial theory |
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