Scientists Grow Beating Human Heart From Stem Cells Over a third of Americans who need a new heart will not get the transplant they deserve in the upcoming year. And those lucky enough to receive one still run the major risk of their body rejecting it. However, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have announced that they’ve […]
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Mom’s Phone Call Helps Uncover Oldest Long-Necked Dinosaur on Record There’s a lot missing from the fossil record when it comes to the earliest dinosaurs. That makes the discovery of not one but three well-preserved skeletons, two of them nearly complete, all the more significant. Even better: The new species they represent, Macrocollum itaquii, is the oldest long-necked dinosaur known. The […]
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A 2000-year-old preserved loaf of bread found in the ruins of Pompeii The violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius is considered to be one of the greatest natural catastrophes of the ancient world, when several cities in the Bay of Naples were covered in ash and rock and left just as they stood on that fateful day in 79 AD. The […]
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Air Force Veteran Dies Covered In Ant Bites At Veterans Affairs Hospital In Georgia An army officer of Vietnam died in the U.S. The Department of Veterans Affairs assisted living facility on Saturday, but before he died, he was twice found covered in ants. Laquana Ross didn’t take long to realize that her 74-year-old dad, Joel Marrable, had something wrong. […]
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Milwaukee Mother Amelia Di Stasio Tied Up Son With Autism And Set Him On Fire In an appallingly tragic incident, a Milwaukee mother was arrested because she had killed her child by binding him with belts and setting him on fire. Amelia Di Stasio, 23, is now facing the charge of a first-degree murder following the death in her apartment of […]
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Fisher Man Reels in Massive Skull of 10,000 years old Megaloceros Elk On the lakebed of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, a fishing fighter and his assistant were out on Sept. 5 when they reached the distance from their usual catch. With its skull nearly fully intact, Raymond McElroy and his assistant, Charlie Coyle were shocked by massive elk antlers. […]
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Meet The Armadillo Lizard: A Mini-Dragon That Curls Up Like An Armadillo The armadillo lizard could both be one of the cutest and one of its most excentric reptiles with its thorniest exterior and distinctive defenses. These lizards have strong armor-like characteristics and are known to curl up when they feel threatened just as armadillos are. But not the only […]
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The 90,000-year-old hybrid of two extinct human species has been uncovered by scientists A piece of bone, barely larger than a quarter, has given archeologists their recent major scientific breakthrough. A study published in Nature on 22 August examined the piece of bone and found that the former girl from whom the fragment belonged was an unknown hybrid of two ancient […]
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5-year-old girl with albinism Djeneba Diarra beheaded in suspected ritual murder in Mali A five-year-old albino girl was decapitated in Mali, kidnapped this month. Djeneba Diarra slept with her mom and sister in her home courtyard when a group of armed men took her, Agence France-Presse reported. At about 2 a.m. the abductors stepped onto a wall. As his mom attempted to […]
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Trophy Hunter Fatally Gored In Groin By Herd Mate Of Buffalo He’d Just Killed As a veteran South African chase hunter, Claude Kleynhans was loading a newly-killed buffalo into his truck, When he was surprised by another buffalo caught him with a lethal charge. Three decades ago the trophy hunter stalked and killed South Africa’s life but after a lengthy […]
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