Weird Science

Fossilized fish discovered on the high-altitude Himalayas!

Scientists that are studying the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, have found fossilized fish and other marine creatures that have been embedded in the rock. How did so many fossils of marine creatures end up in the high-altitude sediments of the Himalayas?

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⬝ Dec18,2023 7:18pm

Four-legged prehistoric whale fossil with webbed feet found in Peru

Paleontologists discovered the fossilized bones of a four-legged prehistoric whale with webbed feet, off Peru's western coast in 2011. Even stranger, its fingers and toes had little hooves on them. It possessed razor-sharp teeth that it used to catch fish.

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⬝ Dec12,2023 12:06pm

The mystery of frozen mammoth carcasses in Siberia

Scientists struggle to understand why these animals lived in Siberia and how they died.

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⬝ Dec12,2023 6:01am

A 95-million-year-old Sauropod skull discovered in Australia

Fossil from fourth-ever discovered specimen of a titanosaur may reinforce theory that dinosaurs traveled between South America and Australia.

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⬝ Dec10,2023 1:24pm

40,000-year-old star maps with sophisticated knowledge of modern astronomy

In 2008, a scientific study revealed an astonishing fact about the palaeolithic humans ― a number cave paintings, some of which were as old as 40,000 years, were actually products…

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⬝ Dec8,2023 6:41pm

The 2-billion-year-old nuclear reactors in Africa baffle researchers!

Reactions similar to those inside the power plants in the modern era arose spontaneously around 2 billion years ago in the Oklo region of Gabon, Africa.

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⬝ Dec8,2023 3:59pm

A 31,000-year-old skeleton showing the earliest known complex surgery could rewrite history!

The discovery implies that early people had mastered complex surgical procedures, having detailed knowledge of anatomy beyond our imagination.

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⬝ Dec6,2023 11:00pm

A victim of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has his blood drawn by Dr. John Charles Cutler. c. 1953 © Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Syphilis in Tuskegee and Guatemala: The cruelest human experiments in history

This is the story of an American medical research project that lasted from 1946 to 1948 and is known for its unethical experimentation on vulnerable human populations in Guatemala. Scientists who infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhoea as part of the study knew very well they were violating ethical rules.

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⬝ Dec3,2023 8:06pm

Phineas Gage — the man who lived after his brain was impaled with an iron rod!

Have you ever heard of Phineas Gage? A fascinating case, almost 200 years ago, this man suffered an accident at work that changed the course of neuroscience. Phineas Gage lived…

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⬝ Nov28,2023 1:02am

Did Li Ching-Yuen “the longest lived man” really live for 256 years?

Li Ching-Yuen or Li Ching-Yun was a man of Huijiang County, Sichuan Province, said to be a Chinese herbal medicine expert, martial artist and tactical advisor. He once claimed to…

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⬝ Nov27,2023 5:45am

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