
Beautiful and unique turquoise opal found inside petrified wood.
Australian Boulder opals are found in unlikely places, such as cracks, crevices, and cavities. A Reddit user (u/adymma90) came across a piece of petrified wood in Queensland,…

Sea Sheep? This Adorable Sea Slug Eats So Much Algae It Can Photosynthesize
It’s a sheep! It’s a cow! No, it’s Costasiella kuroshimae (or ‘Leaf Sheep’ for short). This adorable little sea slug, whose beady eyes and cute feelers make it look like…

Professor Brian Cox Proves That Time Travel Is Possible With This Amazing Experiment
Is time travel possible? Well, we might find the answer in this amazing video. Professor Brian Cox, a Doctor Who admirer, makes a stunning experiment to prove…

Is the F-35 more powerful than the brand-new “monster” Typhoon?
The image published on the official Eurofighter website shows that Typhoon fighter carries a total of 14 rockets of all kinds. In this special configuration, Typhoon carries…

Blackbird SR-71: “So Fast It Could Melt The Tires”
The SR-71 Blackbird: The Fastest Plane, the Most Repairs Needed?: It was a mystery. The SR-71 Blackbird was built of titanium and other space-age alloys to handle the excessive…

The mystery of animals fossils lived in water, air-breathers and would have had no capacity to survive on land
The first complete ichthyosaur skeleton, believed to have been found by the fossil hunter Mary Anning, was thought to have been lost forever when German bombs rained…

Skeleton buried in Vesuvius eruption found at Herculaneum
ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THE ROMAN COASTAL RETREAT OF HERCULANEUM HAVE UNEARTHED THE REMAINS OF A VICTIM FROM THE VESUVIUS ERUPTION IN AD 79. Based on letters by Pliny…

Archaeologist reveals 7-meter-tall human skeleton with horns during archaeological excavations from the 1880s
A March 22 Facebook post claiming archaeologists dug up human skeletons 7-feet tall with horned skulls in Pennsylvania accrued more than 1,000 shares in two days. “During…

Why, more than 40 years after its creation, is the MiG-29 still referred to as a “sky killer”?
On October 6, 1977, the fourth-generation Soviet fighter MiG-29 Fulcrum successfully made its first flight piloted by test pilot Alexander Fedotov. The idea of creating the MiG-29…

Why the U.S. military was afraid of the Russian fighter, the MiG-21
“Fishbed,” the official NATO codename for the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter plane, may not sound terribly intimidating. Indeed, it may bring to mind a seafood platter – I’m…