Measuring 2.5 inches long, this head would have been part of an axe likely wielded by a member of the Globular Amphora culture that remains largely mysterious to this day.Lublin Provincial Conservator of MonumentsThis smooth stone found in a Polish raspberry bush turned out to be a 4,500-year-old axe head.
While removing weeds from his raspberry patch, a Polish gardener recently discovered a smooth, wedge-shaped rock. Believing the rock held some significance, the gardener reported the find to officials. Read More...
From chemical weapons tests to frostbite experiments to amputations without anesthesia, the atrocities of Unit 731 rank among the most vicious in modern history.After the horrors of World War I came to an end, the Geneva Convention promptly banned the use of all chemical and biological weapons in warfare. The Geneva Protocol, as it came to be known, was signed in 1925 and officially outlawed the use of “asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials, or devices” and “bacteriological methods of warfare. Read More...
Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum had a 49.5-foot-long neck that it used to eat vegetation from the tops of the tallest trees 162 million years ago.Júlia d’OliveiraAn illustration of what Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum may have looked like.
Archaeologists have just identified the longest neck in the animal kingdom, and it doesn’t belong to a giraffe. Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, a species of sauropod, roamed northwestern China 162 million years ago with a nearly 50-foot-long neck.
At 49. Read More...
