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Ancient early human hybrid found, ominous Czech “hunger stones” uncovered, 40,000-year-old horse mummy dug up. Scientists Have Uncovered The 90,000-Year-Old Hybrid Of Two Extinct Human Species T. Higham, University of OxfordThis bone fragment was found in 2012 at Denisova Cave in Russia by Russian archaeologists and represents the daughter of a Neandertal mother and a Denisovan father. A bone fragment scarcely bigger than a quarter has provided archaeologists with their latest major scientific breakthrough....

Uncovered Auschwitz letter reveals camp’s horrors, Civil War letter reveals the origins of “kick ass,” and a German WWII POW returns to the U.S. to thank his former captors. True Horrors Of Auschwitz Revealed By Prisoner’s Buried Letter Found At Nazi Camp Wikimedia CommonsHungarian Jews disembarking from the transport trains at Auschwitz–Birkenau. A letter that was recently made legible, buried by a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz further reveals the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps....

The judges’ actions “gravely undermined public trust in the dignity and decency of Indiana’s judiciary,” according to a scathing Indiana Supreme Court opinion. Indiana Supreme CourtThree Indiana judges were temporarily suspended due to their involvement in a White Castle brawl. Judges Bradley Jacobs, Andrew Adams, and Sabrina Bell were off-duty from their judicial work and looking to have some fun. But nobody expected two of these three judges from Indiana would end up getting shot at a White Castle after a brawl....

When police raided the 41-year-old boyfriend’s home, they caught him mid-meal. Public DomainOleksandr’s 50-year-old girlfriend and victim has yet to be publicly indentified. On April 13, 2020, a 41-year-old Ukrainian man identified only as Oleksandr hosted a house party with his unidentified 50-year-old girlfriend. After finding human remains the next morning, police entered the residence on a tip and found Oleksandr in the middle of frying and eating his girlfriend’s legs....

Operating for just one year from 1716 to 1717, Black Sam Bellamy captured 53 ships and plundered $140 million worth of treasure, dividing it equally among his crew. Wikimedia CommonsA possible image of pirate Samuel Bellamy. They called him Black Sam Bellamy. And though the nickname suggests a fearsome pirate, Samuel Bellamy did not have a reputation as a marauding and violent captain. On the contrary, he was fair to those he pillaged and generous to his crew....

The severed heads recently discovered in Texas and Louisiana could be the work of one sinister perpetrator, new evidence shows. Houston Police Department Homicide Division via the Houston ChroniclePolice sketch of the woman whose severed head was found at Lake Houston on March 24. When each of the two severed heads was found, three weeks and 150 miles apart, police had little to go on. But now, a few creepy connections between these grisly finds has authorities investigating whether or not they’re chasing a serial killer with a particularly horrifying signature....

Xavier Novell declared his love for novelist Silvia Caballol who has written books like “The Hell of Gabriel’s Lust.” Diocese of SolsonaXavier Novell was considered a rising star in the church before his resignation. Love can sprout in the strangest of places. Hoping to conduct more powerful exorcisms, Spanish Catholic bishop Xavier Novell set up a meeting with Silvia Caballol, an erotic novelist who peoples her stories with demonic characters, to learn about demonology....

There’s no use denying it—3D printers are changing the way the world works. Although companies and artists are the primary users of these extraordinary devices, as costs lessen 3D printers could start popping up in homes across the country. And while the ability to print stem cells and prosthetic limbs seems extraordinary, these devices also raise a number of moral and ethical issues for the everyday user. Here’s a glimpse of the many objects one can create with a 3D printer....

Her book chronicles the life of Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving slave from the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States. History.comCudjo Lewis, left, and Zora Neale Hurston. In the early 1930s, famed author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston attempted to publish a book of interviews she’d conducted with former slaves, but to no avail. Now, more than 80 years later, the interviews are being released to the public....

“Since I was the eldest among the other seven children, I felt the urge to save her. So, I jumped into the water and swam to where she was struggling to float.” PixabayA brave 11-year-old girl rescued her younger friend from a crocodile attack in Zimbabwe. As we’ve come to learn already, not all heroes wear capes. In the case of a recent crocodile attack on a nine-year-old in Zimbabwe, the courageous hero came in the form of her 11-year-old friend....

From “jumbo” to “namby-pamby” to “nimrod,” these interesting words have surprisingly fascinating backstories. Jumbo The word “jumbo” was most likely originally the word for “elephant” in a certain West African language. It took on the meaning of “large” in English when an elephant in a London zoo was named Jumbo in 1860 (pictured).Wikimedia Commons Avocado The word “avocado” is derived from “ahuacatl,” a word in the Aztec Nahuatl language that means “testicle....

Even though astronomy is one of our oldest sciences, our understanding of the universe is still in its infancy. There are so many fascinating things in the universe and we don’t even have to travel too far to see them. Many of them are right here in our very own solar system. Olympus Mons For a long time, we considered Olympus Mons, located on Mars, to be the tallest mountain in our solar system....

Officials now grapple with the multimillion-dollar question of what exactly to do with all of these corpses. University of Mississippi Medical CenterThe dig site on the former grounds of the Mississippi State Insane Asylum. New findings indicate that thousands of corpses are buried on the grounds of a Mississippi mental asylum that shut down nearly a century ago. Underground radar shows that as many as 7,000 patients’ bodies lie underneath what was once the Mississippi State Insane Asylum....

The concrete structure was never built with the long term in mind as the bottom was never properly lined. As such, it could be leaking into the ocean right now. U.S. Department of EnergyThe 1954 “Castle Bravo” hydrogen bomb — the biggest bomb ever detonated by the United States. Nuclear testing in the Pacific might be a remnant of the Cold War-era, but the fallout from this period has a much longer memory that persists today....

The lock of hair was clipped from Lincoln’s head the day after he died and wrapped in a War Department telegram that the First Lady’s cousin had in his pocket. RR AuctionThe lock of hair has been safeguarded for 155 years. A lock of President Abraham Lincoln’s hair and a telegram smeared with his blood just sold for $81,250 at an auction that ended on Saturday. According to CNN, the buyer who purchased these historic items from Boston-based RR Auction has chosen to remain anonymous....

Researchers found 51 intentionally elongated skulls in the fifth-century cemetery at Mözs-Icsei-dülö in Hungary. Wosinsky Mór Museum, Szekszárd, HungaryGrave 43 held the remains of a girl with an artificially elongated skull. She was buried with a necklace, earrings, a comb, and glass beads. In the 1960s and 1990s, excavations in the ancient graveyard of Mözs-Icsei-dülö in Hungary unearthed the skeletal remains of at least 96 people from the fifth century....

Estimated to be the second most expensive property in the world, Antilia has three helipads, a 168-car garage, nine elevators, and four floors just for plants. Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty ImagesCosting upwards of $2 billion to complete, Antilia is considered one of the most expensive private residences in the world. While a 27-story, two billion-dollar house for six people in the most poverty-stricken area of India might seem a tad bit extravagant to most, the richest man in India and sixth richest in the world, Mukesh Ambani, seems to have missed the memo....

“She faced so many challenges head-on and she was a survivor through everything. The only thing she couldn’t overcome was a bullet.” Mark PerryWolf 926F, known as “Spitfire.” Six years ago, one of Yellowstone National Park’s most beloved wild wolves was killed by a trophy hunter. Now, that wolf’s equally beloved daughter has suffered the same fate. In late November, an unspecified trophy hunter killed wolf 926F (popularly known as “Spitfire”), the daughter of wolf 832F (popularly known as “06,” after the year of her birth), according to Montana wildlife officials who spoke with The New York Times....

Greensboro student Maddie thought her apartment might be haunted when clothes vanished and noises came out of nowhere. Guilford County Sheriff’s Office30-year-old Andrew Swofford, 2019. A student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro was troubled by how often she heard strange noises in her apartment and how some of her shirts had miraculously vanished. What the student brushed off as a ghost turned out to be a 30-year-old man with a criminal record living in her closet....

Historians, as well as Hitler himself, claim that he never fathered a child. But there is a man who claims to have been the Führer’s son — and Hitler may have known about him all along. Keystone/Getty Images“Did Hitler have kids?” is a question that has fascinated historians for decades, and the answer is more complicated than it first appears. Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror ended in 1945, but his bloodline may not have....