Vesna Vulović: The Serbian Flight Attendant Who Survived A Plane Crash From 33,330 Feet YouTubeVesna Vulović, 22, was the only survivor of a plane crash after the aircraft fell from 33,330 feet.
Vesna Vulović was a 22-year-old flight attendant employed by JAT Yugoslav Airlines when she received a fateful assignment. On January 26, 1972, she was assigned to a flight from Stockholm to Belgrade, with a stopover in Copenhagen. The company had apparently mistaken her for another woman named Vesna — but since she had never been to Denmark, Vulović took the assignment anyway. Read More...
"For me it's just amazing because I've been aspiring to be a paleontologist for as long as I can remember."Terri Trembath/CBC/NCC12-year-old Nathann Hrushkin found a dinosaur fossil while hiking with his father in Alberta.
A lot of kids dream of becoming dinosaur experts when they grow up. But one kid in particular just got a glimpse of what it would be like to work his dream job as a paleontologist after he discovered the bones of a 69-million-year-old dinosaur. Read More...
Capt. Brody’s famous film quote “We’re going to need a bigger boat” doesn’t apply to the new species of shark filmed of the coast of Indonesia. The Hemiscyllium halmahera grows only to about 2½ feet long and is no harm to humans. What sets the long-tailed carpet shark, or epaulette, apart from other species is that it seems to walk along the ocean floor using its fins like one might use feet. Read More...
