When scientists first discovered these remains of a teenage girl in 2010, they knew that the history of early humans was about to be rewritten. Now we know what the face of a Denisovan actually looked like.Maayan HarelAn artist’s rendering of the reconstructed face of a Denisovan girl.
It’s incredible what just a little bit of DNA can do. Scientists have successfully reconstructed, for the first time, what one of our archaic human ancestors may have looked like — using only fragments taken from a pinky bone. Read More...
The Well of Hell, also called the Well of Barhout, is likely millions of years old and drops 367 feet into the earth. AFP via Getty ImagesThe “Well of Hell” sinkhole in eastern Yemen.
For centuries, it’s terrified locals as a possible prison for jinn, or genies. Now, cave explorers have dropped to the bottom of Yemen’s “Well of Hell” for the first time. The sinkhole, formally known as the Well of Barhout, gapes out from the desert in the al-Mahra province in eastern Yemen. Read More...
On July 14, 1881, Billy the Kid died at the age of 21 after being shot in the chest in Fort Sumner, New Mexico by Sheriff Pat Garrett — though some say the story didn’t end therePublic DomainA depiction of Billy the Kid’s death from Sheriff Pat Garrett’s 1882 biography of the outlaw.
In 1881, Billy the Kid had a reputation as one of the Wild West’s most notorious outlaws. He’d run with vigilantes, escaped prison twice, and claimed to have killed 21 men (“One,” he once quipped, “for every year of my life. Read More...
