Cone Heads A viral Facebook post is claiming that strange-looking skulls found in Peru are evidence of alien life, USA Today reports. But fortunately — or disappointingly, depending on your frame of reference — the skulls are almost certainly from plain-old human beings. “The eye sockets are normal and perfectly within the range of human
The government of Sierra Leone has concluded a deal this month with China to convert 250 acres of beachfront property and protected rainforest into a fishing plant and harbor. Local and international activists criticized the deal, calling it a “catastrophic human and ecological disaster” and a “disaster for the country and the planet.” The UK
A German court has officially declared billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub dead. It has been more than three years since the head of retail group Tengelmann went missing in the Swiss Alps. Haub was 58 years old. He was training for a ski race when he disappeared under Switzerland’s famous Matterhorn peak, located on the southern border
It is an idea so horrifying that it sounds made up: A parasite which bites off its host’s tongue and then replaces it, living inside its mouth for the rest of its life. But in fact, the tongue-eating louse is real and lives inside the mouths of fish – one of which was discovered recently
One very unlucky 70-year-old man contracted not one, not two, but three separate illnesses as a result of a single tick bite. His situation is so rare that researchers wrote a study about his case. The paper, titled “One Man, Three Tick-Borne Illnesses” was published in April by BMJ Case Reports. The paper begins with
Paleontologists have rediscovered a symbiotic relationship between two deep-sea animals that were previously thought to have disappeared from fossil records hundreds of millions of years ago. The ancient pair identified in a new report — published in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology — are two types of non-skeletal coral and crinoid, or sea lilies, an
The devastated partner of a woman who was mauled to death and eaten by bears has paid tribute to the ‘life-long adventurer’ and love of his life. The remains of Laney Malavolta, 39, were found on Friday night by her boyfriend near the town of Durango, about 350 miles southwest of Denver, Colorado. Investigators said
If one Texas bobcat didn’t have a fear of heights before, it definitely does now. Earlier this week, the big cat somehow managed to strand itself atop of a utility pole in the Topaz Road neighborhood of El Paso, where it remained for two days, according to KFOX14. Neighborhood residents eventually noticed the animal and
Thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes have started being released in Florida this week in an attempt to get rid of the disease-spreading species of mosquito. The project, which comes from British biotech company Oxitec, is aiming to reduce the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which can spread diseases such as Zika and dengue fever. The
Staff at Zoo Miami found the specimen back in 2012, in the pine rockland forest that surrounds the zoo. They took a photo of the specimen and shared it with the zoo’s conservation and research department for identification – but it didn’t match any existing records for known species in the region. More than two years
