At this Aztec Festival, Priests Wore Capes of Human Skin from Sacrifice Victims

Updated 4 November, 2023 - 21:50 Joanna Gillan Few festivals of the ancient world are as strikingly eerie and gruesome as the Aztecs'…

What is Totemism?

Arguably, totemism is more of an anthropological focus than a sociological one. That does not mean it should be dismissed. Both Durkheim and…

Reviving a Leafy Dinosaur: The Wollemi Pine

A popular idea in science fiction is the resurrection of prehistoric creatures such as dinosaurs, mammoths, and even Neanderthals. In reality, such a…

Why Dinosaurs Extinction didn’t affect other species similarly?

Updated 26 July, 2013 - 04:55 johnblack We all know that dinosaurs do not exist anymore and we are familiar with the theory…

Battle Of The Pterosaurs! Britain vs China In Dinosaur Wrangle

Updated 30 September, 2020 - 00:41 ashley cowie The word “pterosaur” translates to “winged lizard” and these creatures existed during most of the…

66-Million-year-old Deathbed Linked to Dinosaur-Annihilating Meteor

Fossilized fish piled one atop another, suggesting that they were flung ashore and died stranded together on a sand bar after the wave…

Dinosaur-Eating Galloping Crocodiles Once Existed in the Sahara Desert

Updated 11 September, 2022 - 22:55 Cecilia Bogaard Believe it or not, but 100 million years ago the area of the present-day scorching…

Did Elusive Dark Matter Trigger Global Mass Extinctions and Doom the Dinosaurs?

Updated 28 March, 2015 - 03:04 lizleafloor Associations between unseen forces in space and terrific cataclysms on Earth are being made by scientists…

Largest-ever Australian Pterosaur Reconstructed In Amazing New Study

A gigantic prehistoric jawbone recovered near the small Australian outback town of Richmond in Northwest Queensland belonged to a previously undiscovered type of…

How The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter May Have Benefited from Soviet Technology

For all the yelling and shouting over the Department of Defense’s much-maligned F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, there’s an unusual, often overlooked footnote…

The Legend Of Bloody Mary — And The Real Woman Who May Have Inspired It

A murderous spirit said to appear in the mirror when her name is chanted, Bloody Mary may be inspired by the infamous Tudor…

The witch legend behind Alabama eatery Huggin’ Molly’s

For mothers wanting their children to hurry home at dark, the legend of the witch-like Huggin' Molly was a helper. For children, she…