Category: HISTORY

January 20, 2025 at 3:48 pm

It Turns Out Dinosaurs Didn’t Technically Go Extinct Millions Of Years Ago

Source: Shutterstock

Dinosaurs are fascinating. 

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January 20, 2025 at 12:53 pm

Charles Darwin Predicted The Insect That Officially Has The Longest Tongue

Source: David Lees, et al

I’m sure Darwin was excited, too.

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January 16, 2025 at 12:53 pm

A Number Of Animals Are Able To Sense The Location Of Magnetic Fields

Source: Shutterstock

And here I was thinking the only thing I ever needed to learn about fruit flies was how to get rid of them.

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January 15, 2025 at 3:49 pm

The Microbes On This Two-Billion-Year-Old Rock Are Still Alive

Source Y. Suzuki et al

It’s not the sky that’s the limit, but the whole universe.

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January 13, 2025 at 3:49 pm

Why Human Beings Evolved To Play Games

Source: Shutterstock

There’s a reason you can’t stop playing Candy Crush.

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January 13, 2025 at 1:53 pm

Here’s Why Ancient Wayfinding Techniques Are Still Effective In The Modern World

Source: Phil Uhl/Wikipedia

Even if the old ways of navigating can still work today, it’s not that easy to find people who are adept enough to regularly put it into practice.

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January 11, 2025 at 12:53 pm

Here’s How Many People Have Actually Set Foot On The Moon

Source: NASA/Public Domain

Hint: It’s more than two.

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January 11, 2025 at 9:49 am

The United States Might Be About To Get Its First Official National Bird

Source: Shutterstock

Good for the bald eagle.

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January 9, 2025 at 9:49 am

The Massive Run Of Bad Luck That Spelled The End For Dinosaurs On Earth

Source: Donald E Davis/NASA/Public Domain

You really never know what the next (ten million) years will bring.

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November 7, 2024 at 3:21 pm

Elderly Woman Had No Clue Her Door Stop Was Actually A 34 Million-Year-Old Piece Of Amber Worth $1.1 Million

Elderly Woman Had No Clue Her Door Stop Was Actually A 34 Million-Year-Old Piece Of Amber Worth $1.1 Million

A lucky find for the owners.

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