Back in 1846, whaling was one of the most booming industries in the whole world. It was the fifth largest sector in the United States economy, raking in a cool $10...
Category - Earth
Gravity, in the literal sense, keeps everyone (and everything) on Earth grounded. It acts as the anchor that prevents objects from floating skyward. For humans...
Technically speaking, this marine reptile wasn’t a dinosaur, although it sure swam the Earth alongside many of them. Styxosaurus lived 70 to 85 million years ago, in the...
Did you know that some of the hottest countries in the world have outdoor ventilation? Qatar gets temperatures as hot as 50 °C (122 °F). But luckily for them...
Deep frying a turkey can often times be incredibly dangerous. So why don’t we try a different cooking method? Let’s send our turkey up into space, and have...
Spiders are prolific. There are 45,000 species of spiders that we currently know of, and scientists estimate that there are twice that amount we haven’t discovered...
You’ve seen politics and national borders change all the time, but have you ever witnessed a continent literally breaking apart? Well, it’s possible, and...
Before we take the plunge, we could better take a look at what Lake Natron is made of. Much like the Dead Sea, this lake in Tanzania doesn’t run off into any...
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid as big as Mount Everest was headed on a deadly collision course with Earth. The impact was so devastating that it wiped out the...
