The Hurricane planes were sent by Britain to the Soviet Union in 1941 to help the U.S.S.R. fight back against the Nazis.Oleg Antonov State Aviation MuseumA British Hurricane aircraft, pictured during World War II.
This year, metal detectorists responding to reports of an unexploded World War II-era bomb in a forest near Kyiv, Ukraine stumbled upon the buried remains of eight British Hurricane fighter planes. The planes, which also date back to World War II, are now rusting metal scraps, but researchers hope to clean them up and eventually place them on display in Ukraine’s Oleg Antonov State Aviation Museum. Read More...
Based on an analysis of more than 400 elephant rumble recordings, researchers determined that elephants, much like humans, use specific, unique sounds to refer to one another.Harshil Gudka/UnsplashResearchers determined that African elephants use individualized name-like sounds to call to one another.
African elephants are among the smartest animals on Earth. Now, a new study suggests they could be even more intelligent than most people realize. The study, published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, claims elephants do something few other wild animals do: call each other by their names. Read More...
After his master John Gray died in 1858, Greyfriars Bobby spent the next 14 years guarding his grave, leaving just once a day to eat. Wikimedia CommonsA granite statue of Edinburgh’s famous terrier, Greyfriars Bobby.
The heartwarming story of “Greyfriars Bobby” goes like this: An older Edinburgh man named John Gray became a police nightwatchman in the mid-1850s and chose a watchdog to accompany him on his long, duty-filled nights at work. Read More...
