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The wolf-dog hybrid was dated at 14,000 years old — and woolly rhinos are believed to have gone extinct around the same time. Center for PaleogeneticsThe gritted teeth of a 14,000-year-old dog discovered in Tumat, Siberia in 2011. In 2011, Russian researchers unearthed a perfectly preserved Ice Age puppy in Siberia. Recently, while examining the 14,000-year-old wolf-dog’s stomach contents, researchers were stunned to find evidence of what could be one of the last woolly rhinos on Earth still in its prehistoric bowels....

Song: Imagine, John Lennon. Source: Visual News. What would you do if the sounds you encountered every day were accompanied by an involuntary flurry of color? Or, say, a David Bowie song tasted like eggplant? For those with synesthesia, events like this can happen every minute of every day. In most cases, the human senses operate independently from one another in separate cognitive pathways. But for roughly 2-4 percent of the population, these pathways intersect and link together two or more senses....

It’s actually really difficult to accurately determine what the world’s rarest animals are, especially as natural habitats continue to disappear. It’s surprisingly difficult to determine the rarest species — mainly because animals don’t really participate in censuses. Some animals are so rare that they might already be extinct and we just don’t know it yet. Others are extinct in the wild and can only be found in captivity. But from what we know, the four creatures featured below are as rare as prime rib....

See the glorious USS Akron airship and learn why this vintage flying vessel’s historic crash has now largely been forgotten. The USS Akron flying above the Manhattan skyline in the early 1930s. Long before there were jumbo jets and cruise ships ferrying people to every imaginable destination, there were airships. Huge, helium-filled, blimp-like aircraft were the cutting edge of transit technology nearly a century ago. Surely as Depression-era New Yorkers looked up and saw the USS Akron airship flying above Manhattan’s iconic skyline, they saw the future....

After the Revolutionary War, most Americans were ready for peace. But in 1791, a tax on distilled spirits sparked rebellion once again as thousands took up arms against their newly-founded country in the Whiskey Rebellion. Unknown/Metropolitan Museum of ArtPresident George Washington leading a militia to stop the Whiskey Rebellion. In 1794, farmers in western Pennsylvania rose up against the newly-founded United States. When the U.S. government sent tax collectors west, farmers grabbed their muskets to defend their rights....

Medieval shipwreck found in a Norwegian lake, Neolithic sacrifice victim unearthed in Denmark, knight with an elongated skull discovered in Notre Dame. Archaeologists In Norway Just Happened Upon A Medieval Shipwreck At The Bottom Of A Lake Norwegian Defence Research EstablishmentBecause of low wave activity in Lake Mjøsa, this ship has remained in near-perfect condition for as long as 700 years. The largest lake in Norway, Mjøsa provides drinking water for 100,000 people across the country, so when officials raised concerns about health risks due to the hundreds of tons of surplus World War II munitions that had been dumped into the lake, a survey was launched....

Neanderthal’s face reconstructed after 70,000 years, ancient Indigenous artifacts found inside a Mississippi alligator’s stomach, some of history’s oldest human art uncovered in Tibet. Dutch Scientists Just Reconstructed The Face Of A Neanderthal Who Lived 70,000 Years Ago RMOKrijn the Neanderthal is the oldest specimen of his kind ever found in the Netherlands. More than 50,000 years ago, sea levels between England and continental Europe were about 165 feet lower than they are today....

When a crisis happens, the first question we often ask is “why?” If the answer is unclear, things can get twisted in a hurry. Here are 10 false flag conspiracy theories. U.S. Navy Photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres. A New York City fireman calls for 10 more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center. Sept. 15, 2001. False flags are covert operations, where a government or other entity stages an attack to look like someone else committed it....

Blending static images with motion, cinemagraphs are animated GIFs that bring out the serenity in otherwise chaotic scenes. Today, we look at thirty-three of our favorite cinemagraphs that will entrance you with their quiet yet mesmerizing beauty: {"div_id":"cinemagraph-lincoln-daisy.gif.94190","plugin_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/gif-dog","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinemagraph-lincoln-daisy.gif","alt":"Cinemagraph GIF Counting Daisies On A Lincoln","width":"900","height":"597","class":"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46739"},"base_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinemagraph-lincoln-daisy.gif","base_dir":"\/vhosts\/all-that-is-interesting\/wordpress\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinemagraph-lincoln-daisy.gif"} {"div_id":"cinemagraphs-james-bond-villain.gif.7b5df","plugin_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/gif-dog","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinemagraphs-james-bond-villain.gif","alt":"Cinemagraphs James Bond Villian","width":"900","height":"492","class":"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46740"},"base_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinemagraphs-james-bond-villain.gif","base_dir":"\/vhosts\/all-that-is-interesting\/wordpress\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cinemagraphs-james-bond-villain.gif"} {"div_id":"skiing.gif.09076","plugin_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/gif-dog","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/skiing.gif","alt":"Skiing Cinemagraph GIFs","width":"900","height":"527","class":"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46758"},"base_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/skiing.gif","base_dir":"\/vhosts\/all-that-is-interesting\/wordpress\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/skiing.gif"} {"div_id":"humpback-whale.gif.52b4c","plugin_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/gif-dog","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/humpback-whale.gif","alt":"Humpback Whale","width":"900","height":"490","class":"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46751"},"base_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/humpback-whale.gif","base_dir":"\/vhosts\/all-that-is-interesting\/wordpress\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/humpback-whale.gif"} {"div_id":"fireplace.gif.bc16d","plugin_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/gif-dog","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fireplace.gif","alt":"Fireplace Beautiful Cinemagraph GIFs","width":"900","height":"417","class":"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46747"},"base_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fireplace.gif","base_dir":"\/vhosts\/all-that-is-interesting\/wordpress\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fireplace.gif"} {"div_id":"dog.gif.15093","plugin_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/gif-dog","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dog.gif","alt":"Dog GIF","width":"900","height":"540","class":"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46744"},"base_url":"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting....

The country’s ambitious plans for urban growth have led to more than 50 abandoned cities whose empty buildings paint a dystopian landscape. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 23 Eerie Photos Taken Inside Burj Al Babas, The Turkish Ghost Town Filled With Fairytale Castles The Most Colorful Cities In The World 33 Historical Aerial Photos Of The World’s Great Cities...

The funeral pyre in Salorno—Dos de la Forca in the Italian Alps is the first of its kind ever discovered and was found to contain the remains of eight generations of families. PLOS ONEThe Late Bronze Age funeral pyre was left untouched for 3,000 years. Salorno—Dos de la Forca has captivated historians for decades. The 3,000-year-old site was first discovered and identified as a funeral pyre in 1986. But only now have bioanthropologists completed excavations and offered detailed analyses of its charred contents — and learned they were the cremated remains of up to 172 people....

The video claims that a reflection in an astronaut’s visor proves that the Apollo 17 mission was a hoax. Since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their small step for man and their giant leap for mankind back in 1969, conspiracy theorists have dedicated their lives to proving that that step — and all the other steps after it — never happened. Most recently, a YouTube user under the name Streetcap1 posted a video on the site that alleges that at least one photo taken during the most recent moon landing, the Apollo 17 mission, was faked....

Factories, grain elevators, warehouses, power plants – reminders of our industrial inheritance are all around us. But what happens to those buildings after the final shift ends and the lights go out for the last time? Grain silos in the U.S. Le Silo, Marseille Silo apartments, Buenos Aires The Hearn Generating Station, Toronto El Matadero, Madrid Ruin bars, Budapest Rochdale Canal Warehouse, Manchester Ce De Candy Company, Toronto Peaks Mason Mints Factory, Brooklyn A global phenomenon Sometimes the buildings remain abandoned, left to crumble and sink back into the Earth....

Source: Julia de Guzman Class and social stature have been so historically important in New York “society” that the elite have even competed for a place to rot. In the words of architecture critic Paul Goldberger, “It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the Park, and to sleep with his fathers in the Green-Wood.” Located in a quiet corner of Brooklyn, it is Green-Wood Cemetery’s natural beauty that makes it such a prestigious place to decompose....

Pablo Escobar’s cousin and right-hand man, Gustavo Gaviria wielded untold power behind the scenes while helping to run the Medellín Cartel, until he was killed by Colombian police in 1990. Wikimedia CommonsPablo Escobar’s cousin Gustavo Gaviria (left) in an undated photo. Unlike Escobar, Gaviria stayed out of the spotlight. Ever since Pablo Escobar’s death in 1993, the Colombian drug lord has inspired TV shows like Narcos, movies like Paradise Lost, and books like Kings of Cocaine....

Through some cunning lies, Calvin Graham is the youngest confirmed soldier to serve in World War II. When Calvin Graham was 11 years old, he began shaving, convinced it would make him look older than he was. He also practiced speaking in a deep voice, pretending to talk like a man. Though his behavior wasn’t completely out of the ordinary for a young child wanting to be a grown-up, his motives were decidedly unique....

Irene Gut Opdyke risked her life to smuggle food and travel permits to Polish Jews — and even hid 12 of them inside the home of a Nazi officer where she worked as a housekeeper. Twitter/CANDLES MuseumIrene Gut Opdyke risked her life to save at least 12 Jewish people during World War II. The American general William Tecumseh Sherman once stated that “war is hell.” For Irene Gut Opdyke, that observation held true....

When a fire erupted inside the coal mine in Centralia, PA, residents thought it would quickly burn out on its own. But the blaze is still going six decades later and the state has given up on trying to fight it. Centralia, Pennsylvania once boasted 14 active coal mines and 2,500 residents in the early 20th century. But by the 1960s, its boomtown heyday had passed and most of its mines were abandoned....

The government not only eventually let Johnny Martorano off the hook, they also gave him $20,000 to start a new life. Al Diaz/Miami Herald StaffJohnny Martorano testifies against former FBI agent John J. Connoly in Miami in 2008. In 2013, some of the residents of the exclusive Milford Country Club condos in eastern Massachusetts were shocked to learn about their neighbor’s grisly past. He was a nice man named John who was mostly quiet and kept to himself....

On September 11, 2001, Marcy Borders escaped her office in the World Trade Center just before the Twin Towers collapsed. Soon after, she was photographed covered in ash from head to toe and became known as the “Dust Lady.” After the 9/11 terrorist attacks destroyed New York City’s Twin Towers, countless heart-wrenching photos from the tragedy began to emerge. Among them was the iconic photo of the “Dust Lady,” a woman named Marcy Borders who was dressed in professional attire — and covered in concrete dust from head to toe....