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New Study Shows Māori Sailors Might Have Reached Antarctica 1,200 Years Before Europeans

New Study Shows Māori Sailors Might Have Reached Antarctica 1,200 Years Before Europeans

After studying Polynesian oral histories, unpublished research, and wood carvings, experts now believe that the Māori sailors arrived in Antarctica more than a millennium before anyone else.
New Dinosaur Species Discovered In Australia Was Long As A Basketball Court And Towered Over T.Rex

New Dinosaur Species Discovered In Australia Was Long As A Basketball Court And Towered Over T.Rex

Australotitan cooperensis was "certainly the largest animal that's ever walked the Outback."
Stone Age People Had Hours-Long Raves And Wore Elk-Tooth Ornaments To Make Entrancing Soundscapes

Stone Age People Had Hours-Long Raves And Wore Elk-Tooth Ornaments To Make Entrancing Soundscapes

Thousands of elk teeth were discovered in a prehistoric burial ground. They showed wear patterns that could only have been produced through years of dancing.
Silver Coins Unearthed In Poland May Have Been A 9th-Century Ransom Payment To Viking Invaders

Silver Coins Unearthed In Poland May Have Been A 9th-Century Ransom Payment To Viking Invaders

The 118 silver coins were found buried in a farmer's field in the Polish town of Biskupiec, and are believed to have been connected to the Siege of Paris in 845 A.D.
Archaeologists Have Discovered An Ancient Greek Jar Used To Curse 55 People In Athens

Archaeologists Have Discovered An Ancient Greek Jar Used To Curse 55 People In Athens

The jar contained the dismembered head and feet of a seven-month-old chicken and was pierced with a nine-inch long iron nail before being buried at the commercial heart of ancient Athens.
Scientists Thaw Live Organisms That Have Been Frozen In Siberian Permafrost For 24,000 Years

Scientists Thaw Live Organisms That Have Been Frozen In Siberian Permafrost For 24,000 Years

"They're the world's most resistant animal to just about any form of torture ... They're probably the only animals we know that could do pretty well in outer space."
How Elvis Presley Convinced Americans To Take The Polio Vaccine

How Elvis Presley Convinced Americans To Take The Polio Vaccine

In 1956, the King of Rock 'n' Roll got his polio vaccination on live TV — and helped America turn the corner in fighting the epidemic.
An Archaeology Student Out For A Walk Just Accidentally Discovered The Oldest Animal Carvings In Scotland

An Archaeology Student Out For A Walk Just Accidentally Discovered The Oldest Animal Carvings In Scotland

The prehistoric drawings clearly depict five red deer, including two with fully-grown antlers. They predate any similar images of animals by about 2,000 years.
Invisible Sculpture Auctioned Off For $18,300 By Italian Artist Attempting To Redefine Art

Invisible Sculpture Auctioned Off For $18,300 By Italian Artist Attempting To Redefine Art

"I Am" is meant to challenge our ideas of what constitutes meaning, according to sculptor Salvatore Garau.
A Missing Man Was Just Found Dead Inside A Giant Papier-Mâché Dinosaur Sculpture In Barcelona

A Missing Man Was Just Found Dead Inside A Giant Papier-Mâché Dinosaur Sculpture In Barcelona

Police believe the man became stuck after falling into the sculpture head-first while trying to retrieve his phone. He had been there two days before someone found him.
The Case Of The Grisly Ice Box Murders That Horrified Houston In 1965

The Case Of The Grisly Ice Box Murders That Horrified Houston In 1965

Charles Rogers is believed to have killed his elderly parents, Fred and Edwina, before chopping them up and stuffing them inside their refrigerator in what's come to be known as the Ice Box Murders.