Abel Janszoon Tasman was almost certainly one of the first Europeans to reach New Zealand during that golden age of discovery.

BBC: Hiking New Zealand��s smallest national park

For the independent traveler, the subsequent two decades have been an Age of Discovery, just as the early-15th to early-17th centuries were for European mariners.

FORBES: New Horizons

Whipped up by Charles Darwin's new perspective on life and by visions of lost worlds conjured up by Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that was an age of discovery.

BBC: New age of exploration in the hunt for extreme life

This is truly a golden age of biomedical discovery, but we will miss the opportunity to capitalize on it unless we make the needed investments.

FORBES: Legendary Drug Industry Executives Warn U.S. Science Cuts Endanger The Future

But it is hard not to conclude that the Parisians have had the better deal: the paintings on display reveal all the subtle sophistication of Fra Angelico's art, lively survivors of a spiritual age on the brink of discovery.

ECONOMIST: A rare chance to see the works of a 15th-century master

The discovery of a bronze age granite cist, or grave, in 2011 in a peat bog on White Horse Hill revealed the first organic remains found on the moor and a hoard of about 150 beads.

BBC: 'Amazing' treasures revealed in Dartmoor bronze age cist

He's trying to drag the secretive world of drug-discovery chemistry into the computer age.

FORBES: Merck's Free Radical

The discovery of the remains of at least nine primitive hominids of similar age to the latest find was announced in January.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists unearth early skeleton

The creature's discovery has astounded scientists because their age puts them within two recognized groups of pterodactyls -- primitive long-tailed forms and advanced short-tail forms -- and they display characteristics of both.

CNN: Pterodactyl fossil fills gaps in evolutionary tale