The World’s Smallest Mammals: Baluchistan Pygmy Jerboa Source: Biolib
Tied in first place with the African Pygmy Mouse for smallest rodent in the world, the Baluchistan Pygmy Jerboa looks like a furry face with a tail and legs.
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Only living in the shifting sand dune desert of Pakistan, the Pigmy Jerboa can also alter its metabolism, which it does on a daily basis, slowing down its breathing and circulation to make up for a barely nutritious diet of succulents, windblown seeds and any other digestible vegetation. Read More...
From being weighed against the Bible to being bound and tossed into a river, these witch tests prove how easy it was to be condemned during the era of anti-witch hysteria.Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty ImagesAs anti-witch hysteria took hold of Europe and North America, scores of innocent people were subjected to torturous witch tests.
As Europe and North America were gripped by anti-witch hysteria in the 16th and 17th centuries, myriad innocent men, women, and even children were accused of sorcery and subjected to torturous witch tests in order to prove their culpability. Read More...
The Rain Woman, The Painting That Haunts Your Dreams Svetlana TeletsThe Rain Woman allegedly stalks the dreams of the people who own it.
Created in 1996 by Ukrainian artist Svetlana Telets, The Rain Woman is a fairly straightforward piece. It depicts, as the title suggests, a woman standing in the rain. Her features are distorted and elongated. She is dressed all in black and wears a large, wide-brimmed hat that extends to the edges of the frame. Read More...
