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By analyzing bones found in England, researchers confirmed that Vikings transported animals like horses and dogs from Scandinavia to Britain. Julian Richards/University of York The excavation site where researchers found evidence of animals brought from Scandinavia. Throughout history, pets have held a special place in the hearts and homes of human beings. Now, animal remains excavated from a Viking burial mound in England have revealed that Vikings felt the same way about their own animals, even transporting them hundreds of miles on cramped ships just to be close to them — and eventually, to die with them....

These unbelievable photos show the United Kingdom keeping calm and carrying on through the dark days of the Blitz of World War II. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Photos Of The Forgotten Bengal Famine Fueled By British Colonialism 33 British Royal Family Photos Of The Monarchy Being Weirdly Normal 33 Bob Marley Photos That Capture His Timeless Spirit...

These female Nobel Prize winners’ momentous, diverse achievements have impacted the world far more than we realize. (Left to right) Tawakel Karman, Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf share the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for their non-violent work protecting women’s rights. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Throughout history, the scientific and artistic achievements of men have always been renowned and honored by the cognoscenti and the public alike. More often than not, however, women who work as doctors, engineers, writers, and scientists find themselves fighting a seemingly endless battle to gain recognition within their male-dominated industries, sometimes even losing credit for their work in the process....

On July 17, 1967, a Florida photographer named Rocco Morabito captured one electrical lineman saving the life of another in an image that would go down in history. Rocco Morabito/Jacksonville JournalThe heart-stopping “Kiss of Life” photo won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize There’s an eerie elegance to the photo — two men in midair, posed like dancers. One hangs upside down with his arms over his head. The other cradles him and presses their faces together....

Following decades of captive breeding, 130-year-old Diego — once just one of three living males left of his species — will finally be getting some rest. Parque Nacional Galápagos/FacebookA 130-year-old giant Galápagos tortoise named Diego is retiring after his “exceptional” sex drive helped revive his dying species. In the captive breeding program at the Fausto Llerena Tortoise Center on the Ecuadorian island of Santa Cruz, one giant tortoise stands above from the rest....

“Neanderthal Swiss Army Knife” uncovered, vanished ship found in Bermuda Triangle, Earth’s oldest meteor crash site discovered. Archaeologists Uncover 60,000-Year-Old ‘Neanderthal Swiss Army Knife’ Inside Siberian Cave The Siberian TimesSome of the stone tools recently uncovered inside the Siberian cave. Researchers excavating in a Siberian cave recently found some 90,000 artifacts dating back tens of thousands of years. Among these discoveries was a sharpened stone tool believed to be used for so many purposes that researchers have quickly taken to calling it a “Neanderthal Swiss Army Knife....

Archaeologists find Ice Age “ghost tracks” in Utah, Hitler’s gold watch set to go to auction, Slovenian fires set off bombs from World War I. Archaeologists In Utah Just Stumbled Upon 12,000-Year-Old Footprints In The Great Salt Lake Desert Cornell UniversityThese footprints were found near those uncovered in September 2021 at New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, which are the oldest known human tracks in all of North America. While on their way to another dig site, two archaeologists driving through Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert just happened upon an enormous set of 12,000-year-old footprints made by Ice Age humans right there in the sand alongside their car....

William Hale and Frank Allison were each charged with second-degree attempted murder after firing shots during a road rage incident on Highway 1 near Jacksonville, Florida. Nassau County Sheriff’s OfficeWilliam Hale and Frank Allison. Two men in Florida have been charged with attempted murder after they each opened fire during a road rage incident on Oct. 8, 2022, shooting each other’s daughters in the process. According to the New York Post, William Hale, 35, and Frank Allison, 43, were driving along Highway 1 near Jacksonville when they got into a “cat and mouse” game behind the wheel....

Born a Siberian peasant in 1869, Grigori Rasputin became a mystic and renegade monk who entranced the Romanovs — and ended up being assassinated because of it. For almost the entirety of Russia’s 370 years of tsarist rule, the country was sparsely populated and yielded virtually no industrial output. Serfdom was only abolished in 1861. And near the end of the empire, revolutionary ferment could be felt in the streets all over the country....

Spartacus led the biggest slave rebellion Rome had ever seen — but his motivations may not have been so noble. LL/Roger Viollet/Getty ImagesDennis Foyatier’s marble statue of Spartacus at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Spartacus not only led a slave revolt with tens of thousands of soldiers in the first century B.C. but repeatedly defeated Rome in battle. Still, his motivations remain up for debate. Was he a rebel hero — as modern legend holds — a reckless rabble-rouser, or both?...

Why did all of the residents of Kuldhara flee one night under the cover of darkness? Wikimedia Commons With its first structures built sometime in the 13th century, the village of Kuldhara, India was abruptly abandoned overnight sometime in the early 19th century. No one knows why, exactly, but a few theories have emerged in an attempt to explain it. Located approximately ten miles west of the city of Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, the once-prosperous village is now nothing more than a few stone ruins....

The museum hopes that the potentially smelly exhibit will re-examine society’s disgust toward bacteria. Dezeen/SelfmadeBacteria from the armpits, belly buttons, and faces of celebrities were collected to make these cheese blocks. We have a complicated relationship with cheese. We love to put it on everything — chips, chicken, eggs, and even (gasp!) tea — yet we often cannot stomach the unusual process that goes into its creation. Per Smithsonian Magazine, it is this apprehension toward the microbial cultures in cheese that is explored in a new “human cheese” exhibit in London....

Animals have always played a huge role in society. Besides the ones we keep as beloved pets, we love to learn about the vast diversity that nature has to offer. However, there are right and wrong ways to go about this. Watch an Attenborough documentary and learn all kinds of cool things about animals in their natural habitats. Watch cartoons and old movies and get plenty of animal myths and misconceptions that you might still believe to this day....

The real-life events in these tragic movies are more horrifying than anything Hollywood could have imagined. Historically based tragic movies always try their best to portray the reality of events in which they are set. However, all but a few usually fall short of capturing the true horror of what these situations were like for those who endured them. This failing is sometimes the result of cinematic expediency while other times it’s the result modern audiences sensitivities....

A new study suggests that ancient elites threw lavish parties on the crannogs surrounding Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man to display their wealth and power. Afunbags/Adobe StockA reconstruction of an ancient crannog. A new study published in the journal Antiquity offers evidence that ancient elites in regions around the British Isles may have hosted grand parties on small, man-made islands known as crannogs. A crannog, as defined by the study’s authors, is “an artificial island within a lake, wetland, or estuary,” and there are hundreds of them scattered throughout Scotland, Ireland, and Wales dating back to between 4000 B....

It can take up to a decade for a human body to decompose from within a conventional coffin, but the “Living Cocoon” can compost a corpse in just two to three years. Bob HendrikxThese biodegradable coffins, known as Living cocoons, are made out of the fungus mycelium. Have you ever thought about what happens to your body after you die? Well, designers in the Netherlands have, and they’ve come up with an eco-friendly solution to burying the deceased....

Drawn together by shared childhood trauma, Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole became lovers — then serial killers who terrorized America in the 1970s. Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole killed hundreds of people together. Or so they claimed. In the 1970s, this serial killer couple embarked on a horrific murder spree across the United States. They raped, killed, and even cannibalized unsuspecting victims wherever they went. And if Lucas is to be believed, they killed more than 600 people together — an astounding claim....

Raymond Jones vanished 53 years ago while hunting mountain goats along Hayden Creek. Jimmy Emerson, DVM/FlickrRaymond Jones’s disappearance rattled the small, isolated town of Salmon, Idaho. In September 2021, an Idaho bow hunter decided to take a shortcut between hunting areas. As he navigated the rugged woods, he stumbled across human remains. Police have since identified the deceased as Raymond Jones, a man missing for five decades. Almost exactly 53 years ago, Jones, who was also a bow hunter, vanished on Sept....

Octopuses are weird looking. But that’s not the only reason these 33 scientists believe they came from outer space. istockOctopuses evolve in a way no other organisms do. Octopuses do something that no other organism does: they edit their own bodies. In evolution, genetic mutations cause DNA to change in a way that’s beneficial to the host. Octopuses routinely edit their RNA to adapt to their environments. Octopuses’ weirdness was enough for 33 scientists from respected institutions to follow a different train of thought....

Though Sebastián Marroquín grew up as Pablo Escobar’s son Juan Pablo Escobar, he later moved to Argentina and distanced himself from his infamous father. YouTubePablo Escobar and his son Juan Pablo Escobar, now known as Sebastián Marroquín. When Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993, his son Juan Pablo Escobar publicly vowed revenge against those responsible. It appeared the 16-year-old heir to the King of Cocaine’s drug trafficking empire was going to follow in his father’s footsteps....