Don’t Lick the Blue Star Tattoo

This week’s theme is body parts and ornamentation, including tattoos. I’ll be honest and say that the first thing I thought of when…

FLYING Classics: P-51 Mustangs Helped Win the Air During World War II

Considered the finest combat fighter of its generation, the P-51 Mustang long-range fighter and fighter-bomber mastered the skies during World War II and…

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Fighter)

Snapshot Nickname: Flying Balalaika Number Built: 11,496 Make: Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau Mission: Fast Interceptor Location: The Raytheon Pavilion & Outdoor Exhibits Background For…

In One Mission in October 1944, Two F6F Hellcats Shot Down a Record 15 Enemy Aircraft

Two Grumman F6F Hellcats streaked across the sky above the Philippines. Below them, armadas of ships clashed in an epic battle to control…

The Hanging Pillar of Lepakshi Defies Gravity in Indian Temple

Updated 6 October, 2023 - 18:55 Joanna Gillan In the heart of Lepakshi, Andhra Pradesh, India, lies a marvel of ancient Indian architecture…

At this Aztec Festival, Priests Wore Capes of Human Skin from Sacrifice Victims

Updated 4 November, 2023 - 21:50 Joanna Gillan Few festivals of the ancient world are as strikingly eerie and gruesome as the Aztecs'…

What is Totemism?

Arguably, totemism is more of an anthropological focus than a sociological one. That does not mean it should be dismissed. Both Durkheim and…

Reviving a Leafy Dinosaur: The Wollemi Pine

A popular idea in science fiction is the resurrection of prehistoric creatures such as dinosaurs, mammoths, and even Neanderthals. In reality, such a…

Why Dinosaurs Extinction didn’t affect other species similarly?

Updated 26 July, 2013 - 04:55 johnblack We all know that dinosaurs do not exist anymore and we are familiar with the theory…

Battle Of The Pterosaurs! Britain vs China In Dinosaur Wrangle

Updated 30 September, 2020 - 00:41 ashley cowie The word “pterosaur” translates to “winged lizard” and these creatures existed during most of the…

66-Million-year-old Deathbed Linked to Dinosaur-Annihilating Meteor

Fossilized fish piled one atop another, suggesting that they were flung ashore and died stranded together on a sand bar after the wave…

Dinosaur-Eating Galloping Crocodiles Once Existed in the Sahara Desert

Updated 11 September, 2022 - 22:55 Cecilia Bogaard Believe it or not, but 100 million years ago the area of the present-day scorching…