Archives: December2009

• Top Ten Archaeology Finds: Most Viewed of 2009

  Vampires, pirates, ghost ships, skeletons—if it isn’t Halloween, it can only be one thing: National Geographic News’s annual lineup of our most popular archaeology coverage.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• First Tourist Spaceship to Be Unveiled by Virgin Monday

  Aspiring space tourists will get a glimpse of their future ride late Monday, when Virgin Galactic takes the wraps off the first of its long-awaited SpaceShipTwo planes.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Top New Species of 2009: Nat Geo News’s Most Viewed

  Strange beasts—including a giant rat, a lungless worm, and a vegetarian spider—dominated National Geographic News’s most popular new-species coverage of 2009.