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Conservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program spent three weeks traversing the thick rainforests of Honduras, discovering and documenting hundreds of species. Some are entirely new to science. Conservation International“I’m fascinated with the smaller creatures that represent so much of the biodiversity around us,” Larsen explained. Seen here is the male Harlequin beetle. Conservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) spent three weeks trudging through the Mosquitia rainforest in Honduras, and found a treasure trove of rare and endangered species — some of which were thought to be extinct....

Hair metal legends Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe would smash bottles over each other’s heads and swallow light bulbs just for fun — when they weren’t setting hotel beds on fire. Hair metal, or glam metal, was an integral part of the 1980s soundtrack. Mötley Crüe, Poison, Whitesnake — these bands dominated the airwaves just as MTV transformed the music landscape. The latex, the makeup, the hair…and those lyrics....

The tens of thousands of bees are believed to have descended upon the hot dog stand to escape the extremely hot conditions of their previous hive. ReutersA hot dog stand in Times Square swarmed by 20,000 bees. New York City was abuzz this week after a swarm of bees made an unwelcome appearance at a hot dog stand in Times Square. Around 1 p.m. on Aug. 28, some 20,000 bees swarmed an unsuspecting hotdog stand just one block south of Times Square, according to The Guardian....

China’s Yangtze River, the third-longest in the world, is now so polluted that nearly half the people who depend on it are without safe drinking water. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: See What Life Is Like For Residents Of Thailand’s Airplane Graveyard Prehistoric Chinese Paddlefish Is The First Species Of The New Decade Declared Extinct...

Battlefield scenes from the Mexican drug war with no end in sight. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The High And Lows Of Nyaope, Africa’s Brutal New Street Drug 31 Crazy Narco Instagram Photos Posted By Mexico’s Most Feared Drug Cartels 54 Battle Of The Bulge Photos That Capture The Nazis’ Brutal Last Ditch Counteroffensive...

Ingesting carcinogens in pursuit of a dollar, Agbogbloshie represents the cost of digital age conveniences. Source: Ethos Magazine It’s known by others as “Sodom and Gomorrah”. What was once a wetland has quickly turned into a vast wasteland filled with electronic equipment that the developed world has simply grown tired of. Welcome to Agbogbloshie, Ghana. In the 1990s, as personal computers became more commonplace in wealthy countries, industrialized nations began to send functional, secondhand computers to West Africa as a way to reduce the “digital divide” between the rich and poor....

The Limestone County Sheriff’s Office said they were warned about a meth-fueled attack squirrel before searching Mickey Paulk’s home, though the fugitive has no idea where authorities heard such a thing. Limestone County Sheriff’s OfficeNow-fugitive Mickey Paulk was gifted his pet squirrel named Deeznutz shortly after it was born. When Alabama police served a search warrant to 35-year-old Mickey Paulk for gun and drug charges in his former residence, they found an aggressive squirrel in his place....

It is believed that the 2 million-year-old skeleton fills the gap between our apelike ancestors and those early humans who used tools. Wikimedia CommonsThe skull of Au. sediba. A little boy walking his dog in South Africa unknowingly stumbled across the remains of a nearly 2 million-year-old couple that is now believed to fill an integral gap in our understanding of human evolution. In 2008, nine-year-old Matthew Berger and his dog tripped over the partly fossilized bones of an adult female and a juvenile male in a cavern in Malapa, near Johannesburg, South Africa....

Ernst Kaltenbrunner was instrumental in executing the Holocaust and so fanatical that he was even feared by other Nazis. So why haven’t most people heard of him? During the Nuremberg trials, one high-ranking Nazi official evaded public recognition. The trial’s prosecution scoured the sea of documents that bore evidence of the men’s atrocities for which they were being tried, but they couldn’t find much on commander Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Although he was largely ignored by the public and press at the time, Kaltenbrunner was, in fact, the highest-ranking SS commander in that courtroom, not to mention the most fearsome with a battle-scarred face....

Some of the artifacts include an obsidian dagger and a severed head that was used as an incense holder. Getty ImagesView of the Pyramid of the Magician in Yucatan, Mexico. Hundreds of Mayan artifacts have been found underwater in a Guatemalan lake, according to the Daily Mail. Among the trove of relics were weaponry, like a stone mace head and an obsidian blade, which has led researchers to believe that the location of the finding could be where the last battle between the ancient tribesmen and the Spaniards took place....

In the depths of the Hoyo Negro pit, 180 feet below sea level, a diving team has successfully recovered the skulls, jaw bones, and other remains of two long-extinct Ice Age species. Roberto Chavez-ArceA diver in the Hoyo Negro pit, holding a Protocyon jaw and vertebrae. 2019. The Sac Actun cave system in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has served as a treasure trove of ancient remains since 2007 when researchers found the skull and bones of a teenage girl who lived in its submerged Hoyo Negro pit around 12,000 years ago....

When Joe Pichler mysteriously vanished at the age of 18 in 2006, police suspected suicide — but his family remains convinced that foul play was involved. As a child, Joe Pichler starred in films like Varsity Blues and two installments of the Beethoven franchise about a beloved but mischievous Saint Bernard. But as an adult, he became the center of a baffling disappearance case, one that has frustrated authorities for almost two decades....

Great whites will flee an area when they smell an orca even two miles away and won’t return to that area for the rest of the season. Wikimedia CommonsGreat whites are commonly thought of as the apex predators of the ocean, but orcas terrify the species to death — and with good reason. Great white sharks are universally thought of as the apex predator of Earth’s oceans. The prehistoric killers who never stop swimming, smell blood from afar and fear no other, do indeed, have an Achilles heel: the orca whale....

In the poem, entitled “A Rose Thorn,” a woman argues with her vulva over which is more attractive to men: physical beauty or the vulva itself. Stift MelkTwo previous copies of this poem, known as the Dresden Codex and Karlsruhe Codex, were dated back to 1500. This fragment is significantly older. In a post-modern, post-Sexual Revolution world, creative works that anthropomorphize genitalia aren’t necessarily avant-garde. One need only remember the mainstream success of The Vagina Monologues, for instance....

In 1613, Hasekura Tsunenaga set out from Japan on an expedition that would take him to California, Mexico, and most of Europe. Sendai City Museum, Miyagi, JapanSamurai Hasekura Tsunenaga traveled to Rome and became a Christian. A 17th-century samurai set off on a quest to earn riches and spiritual guidance for his emperor–and restore his family’s honor in the balance. He circumnavigated the globe, became part of the first Japanese group in Cuba, met the Pope, helped begin a branch of Japanese settlers in Spain (still thriving today), and even became a Roman citizen....

The Nazi treasure map suggests that fleeing German soldiers buried a cache of gold, silver, jewels, watches, and other riches somewhere near the Dutch village of Ommeren. ZUMAPRESS.comThe Nazi map has drawn treasure seekers from afar. Of the more than 1,300 historical documents recently released by the National Archives of the Netherlands, one has caught the public’s attention: a Nazi treasure map made in 1945. Eager to find the cache of riches, treasure seekers have flooded the Dutch countryside....

These fascinating photos of old New York reveal what the city looked like before towering buildings dominated the skyline. These days, one cannot think of New York City without envisioning the steely thicket of soaring buildings whose foundations dig deep into Manhattan soil. While inextricable from the idea and physical reality of New York City today, these skyscrapers compose a relatively meager part of the city’s nearly 400-year history. Indeed, the New York City most of us recognize vis-a-vis its splintered skyline really began to develop over a short period of time....

The painting, found by a part-time art collector in a New York shed, is believed to be over four centuries old and a classic example of a Dutch Golden Age painting. Sotheby’sStudy for Saint Jerome with an Angel, Anthony van Dyck, circa 1618-20. Oil on canvas, mounted to board. The last place one would expect to find a four-centuries-old masterpiece is in the back of a shed. But that’s exactly what part-time art collector Albert B....

Using noise as a location tool is priceless when you’re a predator, particularly one who operates at night. This experiment aimed to study how that method differed in birds, alligators, and dinosaurs. PixabayAmerican alligators, as used in the experiment. In an effort to better understand dinosaur hearing, scientists used their most closely related and non-extinct relative — the alligator. According to Motherboard, researchers dosed 40 of these dangerous specimen with ketamine as a precautionary tranquilizer before placing earbuds on them to study how they experience audio....

Most Dangerous Places On Earth: Verkhoyansk, Russia Located deep in the heart of Siberia and 3000 miles east of Moscow, Verkhoyansk is one of the coldest cities in the world. Referred to as the Cold Pole, the city is well-known for its endless winters, with the Yana River frozen solid nine months of the year. Winter temperatures fall between minus 60 and minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and from September to March, the city averages fewer than 5 hours of sunlight every day....