The Tasmanian Tiger: A Lost Legend in Art and Memory
The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), a striped marsupial predator once native to Tasmania, mainland Australia, and New Guinea, is immortalized in two poignant …
Category: International
The Coso Artifact: A Spark Plug in Time?
Discovered on February 13, 1961, by Mike Mikesell, Wallace Lane, and Virginia Maxey near Olancha, California, in the Coso Mountains, the Coso Artifact is a …
Vaile Mansion: A Victorian Gem with a Haunted Legacy
Nestled at 1500 North Liberty Street in Independence, Missouri, the Vaile Mansion, completed in 1881, stands as a masterpiece of Second Empire Victorian architecture. Built …
The Old Man of Hoy: Scotland’s Towering Sentinel of Time
Rising 449 feet (137 meters) above the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth, the Old Man of Hoy is a dramatic sea stack on the …
The Mosaics of Paphos
The mosaics of Paphos are one of the cultural attractions to which the homonymous city owes its glory and the large number of visitors that …
Humans Didn’t Hunt Woolly Rhinos to Extinction, New Evidence Suggests
New genetic evidence suggests it was a warming climate—not human overhunting—that killed off woolly rhinos at the end of the last ice age. With cave …
This 28,000-Year-Old Ancient Phallus Unearthed in a Cave in Germany Had More Uses Than One
Researchers claim that a sculpted and refined male phallus discovered in a German cave stands as one of the earliest depictions of male sexuality ever …
Thridarangar Lighthouse, the Most Isolated Places in the World
The Thridarangar Lighthouse stands just in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a few miles from the Vestmann Islands coast, in the south of Iceland. …
The Secret Lives of Words: I came, I saw, I tossed a mullet, man!
Long before they had conquered the Mediterranean and dubbed it “our lake” (lacus noster), the ancient Romans were simple river folk who’d built their little …
1,000-year-old Maya pyramid might collapse into sacred ancient sinkhole in Mexico
An enormous, 1,000-year-old temple in Mexico is sitting precariously over a deep sinkhole and experts worry that the entire pyramid may eventually collapse. The famous …