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During the Late Cretaceous, winged prehistoric creatures called pterosaurs dominated the air. They were the first vertebrates to master flight. ...

In 1614 Christianity was outlawed in Japan. Under the new law – missionaries were arrested and sentenced to death. However, ...

Diana Budisavljević was a well-to-do Austrian married to a renowned doctor in Zagreb when the Axis forces invaded Yugoslavia in ...

Identical twins Hugo and Ross Turner are adventure athletes that are always trying to find ways to improve their performance. ...

According to physics, the end of the world is inevitable. Heat death, the big crunch, the big rip, vacuum decay ...

Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by ...

The French call it “voix de chambre à coucher”. It’s a deep, sultry “bedroom voice” that gives some speakers their ...

Beneath the coastal waters of the Japanese island of Yonaguni lies a series of mysterious rock formations. Since its discovery ...

In the 1960s a well-respected adoption agency in New York deliberately split up infant twins and placed them in different ...

Deep in China's Fengjie County lies a natural wonder that has fascinated experts for decades. The Xiaozhai Tiankeng sinkhole is ...