About 50,000 years ago, we shared this planet with different hominids called the Neanderthals. Their species wasn’t human, but they weren’t far from it...
Don’t be fooled by these gentle waves. These still waters hide a 20 million year death match between two prehistoric monsters. Grab some popcorn and a snorkel. You...
A snake bite can turn into a life threatening emergency within minutes. Every year millions of people worldwide are bitten by venomous snakes, and some cases end in...
Number 1: Vladimir Putin. The Russian President has been one of the leading dangerous figures globally for some time now. Putin has shown he’s not afraid to go...
Most people believe that once a ship sinks to the bottom of the ocean, anyone trapped inside has only minutes to live. But one man survived for nearly three days beneath...
Mike Hodge, who founded the Marakele Animal Sanctuary in Thabazimbi, South Africa, was surrounded by lions and tigers that he had looked after for many years, just as he...
Jupiter is home to some big storms. Like the massive Great Red Spot, which has been swirling on the gas giant for centuries. Why don’t we bring it to Earth and see what...
Split every dollar on Earth evenly tomorrow morning, and the billionaires would start climbing back before the year was out. Not because of conspiracy. Because of...
Has the weather ever ruined your plans? What if I told you I had an idea to stop hurricanes from wrecking your day? And that it involves liquid nitrogen. How exactly...
It may sound unusual that a little bug could be this deadly, but it’s true. Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, yellow fever and the dengue virus. They do it...
Getting lost in the wilderness can quickly become a life or death situation. After spending more than 24 hours alone, finding a source of freshwater might feel like a...
A political meeting in medieval Germany was supposed to settle a bitter land dispute. Instead, a crowded room gave way beneath the officials, sending dozens of people...
Something enormous is on its way to our cosmic neighborhood. The Milky Way, along with our closest major neighbor the Andromeda galaxy, is moving toward a future...
World War II changed the course of human history, shaping the borders, governments and technologies that define the modern world. But what if the outcome had been...
Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene era, humans shared the land...
As 2027 rapidly approaches, the global community stands on a razor-thin edge dividing existential hazards from era-defining scientific breakthroughs. From intensifying...
In 7.5 billion years, the Sun will expand and engulf our planet, destroying all life as we know it. Of course, a mass extinction on Earth could happen much sooner than...
Dan Wherley never imagined a beaver could be dangerous. In his mind, they were slow, harmless dam builders. That changed in seconds when a rabid beaver suddenly leapt...
You’ve seen it in the movies and read about it in books, but now the idea of creating artificial life in a laboratory is becoming a reality. In 2010, a team of...
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