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Researchers In Russia Find The Remains Of What Could Be One Of The World’s Last Woolly Rhinos In The Stomach Of An Ice Age Puppy

Researchers In Russia Find The Remains Of What Could Be One Of The World’s Last Woolly Rhinos In The Stomach Of An Ice Age Puppy

The wolf-dog hybrid was dated at 14,000 years old — and woolly rhinos are believed to have gone extinct around the same time.
66-Million-Year-Old Mystery Fossil Known Only As ‘The Thing’ Turns Out To Be A Prehistoric Sea Lizard Egg

66-Million-Year-Old Mystery Fossil Known Only As ‘The Thing’ Turns Out To Be A Prehistoric Sea Lizard Egg

It's the largest reptile egg ever discovered, and the creature who laid it was at least 200 feet long.
The Rise And Fall Of The Bellamy Salute, The Nazi-Like Gesture That Americans Once Used To Pledge Allegiance To The Flag

The Rise And Fall Of The Bellamy Salute, The Nazi-Like Gesture That Americans Once Used To Pledge Allegiance To The Flag

Named for the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis J. Bellamy, the Bellamy Salute was used from the 1890s until 1942.
Archaeologists Unearth 119 Skulls At 14th-Century Aztec Temple In Mexico City

Archaeologists Unearth 119 Skulls At 14th-Century Aztec Temple In Mexico City

"They were all made sacred. Turned into gifts for the gods or even personifications of deities themselves."
Explore 9 Of The World’s Scariest Abandoned Hospitals, From A ‘Haunted’ Asylum To A Radioactive Clinic

Explore 9 Of The World’s Scariest Abandoned Hospitals, From A ‘Haunted’ Asylum To A Radioactive Clinic

Though these abandoned hospitals once saw countless patients pass through their doors for medical treatment, they're now ghostly shells of their former selves.
This 3,500-Year-Old Disposable Cup Shows Ancient Humans Weren’t Too Green, Either

This 3,500-Year-Old Disposable Cup Shows Ancient Humans Weren’t Too Green, Either

"We are doing what human beings have always done but we are doing it on an unprecedented scale with materials that are going to take hundreds, if not thousands of years, to biodegrade."
Aztec Palace And Home For Hernán Cortés Unearthed Beneath A Historic Pawn Shop In Mexico City

Aztec Palace And Home For Hernán Cortés Unearthed Beneath A Historic Pawn Shop In Mexico City

The palace was razed by the Spaniards for materials and used to create a new home for Cortés nearby.
A Polo-Obsessed Tang Dynasty Noblewoman Was Buried With Donkeys So She Could Keep Playing In The Afterlife

A Polo-Obsessed Tang Dynasty Noblewoman Was Buried With Donkeys So She Could Keep Playing In The Afterlife

When the noblewoman's tomb was uncovered in 2012, researchers were stumped as to why she had been buried with the beasts of burden.
Gilles De Rais, The 15th-Century French Nobleman Who Was Found Guilty Of Torturing And Murdering More Than 100 Children

Gilles De Rais, The 15th-Century French Nobleman Who Was Found Guilty Of Torturing And Murdering More Than 100 Children

The right-hand man of Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years' War, Gilles de Rais is best known today as one of history's first documented serial killers.
How Alex Murdaugh Went From Prominent South Carolina Lawyer To Double Murderer

How Alex Murdaugh Went From Prominent South Carolina Lawyer To Double Murderer

While working at a prestigious law firm, Alex Murdaugh secretly lived a life of crime, fraud, and corruption — then murdered his wife and son in 2021 to cover it up.