Tonight is the night for the Draconid meteors and you do not have to get up in the middle of the night for these.

http://earthsky.org/tonight/legendary-draconids-boom-or-bust

And if you are interested in old bones this find of a snake with a lizard in its gut and a beetle in the gut of the lizard is a rare find

http://earthsky.org/earth/snake-eats-lizard-eats-beetle
only 48 million years old