Strange & Offbeat
Volcanic eruption triggered 'butterfly effect' that led to the Black Death, researchers find
An unknown volcanic eruption in the mid-14th century may have set the stage for the spread of the Bl ...View More
18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline — and they set a new record
Scientists have discovered a record-breaking number of fossilized dinosaur footprints and swim track ...View More
Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for hundreds of years, study finds
Southern Europe's already scorching dry summers could get even worse over the next 1,000 years if a ...View More
Hornet-eating frog shows remarkable venom resistance
A frog with an unexpectedly strong resistance to venom has been identified, and it routinely eats ho ...View More
Giant rotating string of 14 galaxies is 'probably the largest spinning object' in the known universe
Astronomers have spotted what is likely the "largest spinning object" ever discovered, and its rotat ...View More
Freak Diving Accident Causes Man’s Body to Swell Up And Doctors Have No Idea How to Fix It
Alejandro “Willy” Ramos Martínez suffers from a condition known as decompression sickness, also ...View More
Plans to Build Skyscraper in the Heart of the Swiss Alps Spark Controversy Among Locals
Tourism is booming in Zermatt, a small commune in the Swiss Alps where the permanent population of a ...View More
Ancient 'hanging coffin' people in China finally identified — and their descendants still live there today
For millennia, an ethnic group in what's now southwest China placed their dead in "hanging coffins" ...View More
'An extreme end of human genetic variation': Ancient humans were isolated in southern Africa for nearly 100,000 years, and their genetics are stunningly different
Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside ...View More
China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution
China's efforts to slow land degradation and climate change by planting trees and restoring grasslan ...View More
