The GIANT squid is an amazing and mysterious creature. They are the largest invertebrate that we know about. The largest discovered was 59 feet long! They also have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom, reaching 10 inches in diameter. The wildest part is that they have never been observedContinue Reading
Imagine plowing your field and running over a 1,600 square foot ancient Roman mosaic. Sounds impossible, but that’s exactly what happened in southern Turkey. In 2002, Nick Rauh, a classics professor from Purdue University was walking through a recently plowed field. He noticed that the plow dug up a pieceContinue Reading
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Stephon Tull was looking through dusty old boxes in his father’s attic in Chattanooga a few months ago when he stumbled onto something startling: an audio reel labeled, “Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960.” He wasn’t sure what he had until he borrowed a friend’s reel-to-reel playerContinue Reading
Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art. Their research, reported in the most recent edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows the piece to be approximately 37,000 years old and offersContinue Reading