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A skull of a Sea-Rex pliosaur was found off the coast of England.
A 6.6-foot-long pliosaur skull with its upper and lower jaws still locked together in their original configuration has been discovered by British scientists. Palaeontologists have an exceptionally good picture of how one of the most formidable predators in the Jurassic Ocean actually bit and fed because of this unique preservation.
By Francis Dami11 days ago in History
An 11-year-old child discovered a fossilised turtle that was 48 million years old.
A virtually complete turtle shell from around 48 million years ago was found by an 11-year-old rock hunter. Before the elements could destroy it, the unbroken shell preserved a unique window into a lost river world. Near Rock Springs, Wyoming, the dark shell was half-exposed in a layer of crumbling rock, waiting at the surface.
By Francis Dami11 days ago in History
The Oregon Trail - The Road That Pulled a Nation West
Long before interstates sliced across the plains. Long before Route 66 flickered neon into desert skies. And long before motels, hotels, or even the idea of a weekend road trip... There was a trail.
By The Iron Lighthouse11 days ago in History
The Silent Ship Mystery: Still Unsolved After 77 Years part 2
In the radio room, they found the body of the radio operator who had sent the messages. His fingers were still on the Morse key, just as they had been when he sent the final message: “I die.”
By Imran Ali Shah12 days ago in History
Scud Missile Attacks on Pakistan (1989–1990): Soviet Withdrawal, Najibullah Government, and the Afghan War Fallout
On the morning of April 7, 1989, a Soviet-made Scud missile destroyed a post office in the Pakistani border town of Torkham after being launched from Kabul.
By Real content12 days ago in History
Iran hails ‘encouraging signals’ from US ahead of nuclear talks in Geneva
⁠Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that nuclear talks with the United States have produced “encouraging signals”, but warned that Tehran is prepared for any scenario ahead of another round of negotiations set for Thursday.
By Wings of Time 12 days ago in History
Iranians prefer 'precise' Israeli strike over US attack as protests resume at universities
Iranians, while "waiting every minute and second" for a US strike against the Islamic Regime, would prefer an Israeli strike due to the precise nature of the Air Force's strikes in June, while there is a perception that US strikes would "bring terrible destruction, like in Iraq and Afghanistan," a local, identified as Ali told KAN Reshet Bet on Sunday.
By Wings of Time 12 days ago in History
Why Attacking Iran Could Be Riskier Than Capturing Maduro
When President Trump said in January that a U.S. “armada” was heading to Iran, he compared it with the kind of force used in the military’s recent lightning operation in Venezuela, saying it was “able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence.”
By Wings of Time 12 days ago in History
Iran Could Direct Proxies to Attack U.S. Targets Abroad, Officials Warn
A new billboard in Tehran this month. The uncertainty surrounding possible threats from Iran’s proxy groups further complicates the Trump administration’s war planning. Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times
By Wings of Time 12 days ago in History
The Annotated Elephant Man
The discovery as a child of the haunting, tragic life story of Jospeh Carey "John" Merrick was one of the most defining creative and spiritual apsects of my personal development. Throwing a tantrum as a child, not wanting my parents to watch the stage play starring Philip Anglim as "John Merrick, " and Kevin Conway, and later seeing that same play rebroadcast in images that haunt me, dream-like, to this day; images that seemed to have welled up from some past existence. Images of an eerie, quiet, void-like place wherein a Victorian presumed "Doctor" is unaccountably taken by the prone figure of someone we never see. Someone that a mob or crowd has captured, lifting them above their shoulders, holding them up to the light of God, outside a growing circle of musty darkened despair.
By Tom Baker13 days ago in History
The earliest fossilised vomit in the world with intact remains is found by scientists.
The oldest known vomit from a terrestrial mammal is a lump of fossilised vomit that is around 290 million years old. An early land food chain can be redrawn thanks to 41 bone fragments that freeze a single meal from long before dinosaurs.
By Francis Dami13 days ago in History
AM vs FM - The Two Frequencies That Soundtracked America
There was a time when the most powerful thing in a house wasn’t the television, and it certainly wasn’t the phone in your pocket. It was a box, with dials...
By The Iron Lighthouse13 days ago in History