In the video below we will journey through the 10 Wondrous Mysteries of the World and Universe! Enjoy!
A swimmer discovers 1,800-year-old marble columns from a shipwreck off the coast of Israel
A few weeks ago, Gideon Harris dived into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel. 13 feet below the surface, he discovered marble columns that were 1,800 years old.
One of the marble capitals found by swimmer Gideon Harris Israel Antiquities Authority
The Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement last week that the Roman-era artifacts that perished with the merchant ship carrying them have been discovered. Despite the agency's knowledge of the shipwreck's existence, its location was previously a mystery.
According to Koby Sharvit, head of the IAA's underwater archaeological team, "recent storms must have exposed the cargo, and thanks to Gideon's vital report, we have been able to register its location.
The rich hoard may have been headed to a port in Ashkelon, Gaza, or Alexandria when it was discovered, according to Sharvit, who believes that it most likely originated in a location adjacent to Greece or Turkey. When the ship was engulfed in a storm, the crew probably let go of the anchor to keep it from grounding on the shoals.
Among the artifacts are partially carved capitals, which are the decorative caps of columns. Some people are huge and heavy, while others are tiny.
It's possible, perhaps even likely, that we have duplicate cargo: one ship carrying goods for two separate constructions or destinations, Sharvit told Haaretz's Ruth Schuster.
The carving on the little capitals hints that they might have been for a more compact structure. Major cities still need a lot of development. The shape is there even though it hasn't been finalized.
Divers measuring one of the columns in the shallow waters off the beach of Beit Yanai, Israel Israel Antiquities Authority
The discovery is remarkable in large part because of the material. Sharvit claims that the objects were presumably intended for a "large-scale, majestic public structure" because they are made of marble.
According to Sharvit in the statement, such architectural elements were created from local stone and plastered in white plaster to mimic marble "even in Roman Caesarea," a nearby ancient port city. Here, we're talking about actual marble.
Additionally, he asserts that the discovery provides an answer to the question of whether architectural components like columns were completed at their final places or at their original locations. This revelation makes clear the latter because numerous columns were lacking.
Roman rule over the region was formally established when Pompey the Great seized and overthrew the king of Judea in 63 BCE. Experts assigned the recently discovered columns a date around the middle of the second century C.E.
Researchers were excited to find that the columns were made from genuine marble. Israel Antiquities Authority
Scientists have long been interested in Israel's Mediterranean Sea shoreline. For instance, in the waters of Caesarea National Park, some 35 miles north of Tel Aviv, divers unintentionally discovered a 1,600-year-old shipwreck crammed with bronze artifacts in 2016. This summer, a 2,000-year-old Roman coin with zodiac signs was found in the waters near Haifa.
In collaboration with students from the University of Rhode Island, the IAA will soon begin an excavation of the site, according to Sharvit, writes Amanda Borschel-Dan for the Times of Israel. He anticipates finding more ancient objects, such as coins. It would be considerably more fascinating to find the boat's actual wreckage, which researchers have not yet discovered.
Harris, who alerted the IAA to the discovery, received a certificate of appreciation for his civic virtue.
In North America, 100 million years ago, prehistoric moths gave rise to all butterflies
In a new tree of life, researchers have explained how butterflies developed and colonized the planet.
The world's largest butterfly tree of life was meticulously built by scientists, who found that the first butterflies appeared 100 million years ago in Central and North America.
North America was divided in two at this time by a seaway dividing the east and west as the supercontinent Pangaea was disintegrating. On this portion of the continent's western side, butterflies first appeared.
Currently, there are thought to be 20,000 different species of butterflies, and they can be found everywhere but Antarctica.
Although scientists were aware of when butterflies first appeared, they were still unaware of where they came from and what they initially ate.
Akito Kawahara, curator of lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) at the Florida Museum of Natural History, led the team of researchers who sequenced 391 genes from roughly 2,300 butterfly species from 90 nations, or 92% of known genuses, to create the new butterfly tree of life.
Data from many sources was combined by the researchers into a single publicly accessible database. To ensure that the branching points of their tree of life matched the time period of branching revealed by fossils, they selected 11 rare butterfly fossils as a benchmark. In a statement, Kawahara stated, "It's the most challenging study I've ever been a part of, and it took a massive effort from people all over the world to complete."
The research, which was published on May 15 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, revealed that butterflies descended from nocturnal herbivorous moths approximately 101.4 million years ago. According to this, the first butterflies appeared in the middle of the Cretaceous, alongside dinosaurs.
Butterflies spread across what is now South America once they evolved. Some of them relocated to Antarctica, which at the time was still connected to Australia and significantly warmer. The two landmasses divided as they reached Australia's northernmost point, a process that started some 85 million years ago.
The butterflies then traveled through what is now Russia 75–60 million years ago, across the Bering Land Bridge, a land link that previously connected Russia and North America. The Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Horn of Africa were next on their list of destinations. Around 60 million years ago, they even traveled to India, a remote island at the time. Surprisingly, for 45 million years at the edge of the Middle East, the expansion of butterflies stalled for unidentified reasons until eventually moving into Europe at 45–30 million years ago. According to Kawahara, the fact that there are fewer butterfly species in Europe today than in other regions of the world is a reflection of this hiatus.
Butterfly tree of life traced back to North America 100 million years ago. (Image credit: Kawahara et al)
According to an examination of 31,456 records of host plants for butterflies, the earliest insects consumed plants in the legume family. Nearly every ecosystem has legumes, but the majority of them lack strong compounds that protect them against insect feeding. These characteristics, according to scientists, may have led the butterflies to continue eating legumes for millions of years.
Although butterflies now consume multiple plant families, the majority still only consume one plant family. The majority of the species today eat only one plant family, primarily the wheat and legume families. Interestingly, the genesis of butterflies and the most recent common ancestor of legumes both occur around 98 million years ago.
According to a statement from co-author Pamela Soltis, a curator at the Florida Museum, "the evolution of butterflies and flowering plants has been inextricably intertwined since the origin of the former, and the close relationship between them has resulted in remarkable diversification events in both lineages."
At the bottom of the sea, archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient temple
Archaeologists have unearthed two altars from a Nabatean temple that were discovered submerged on Pozzuoli's seafloor. It is believed that Puteoli, a commercial port in this region of southern Italy, once had its center at the now submerged temple.
Archaeologists have determined that the submerged temple's remnants date to the first fifty years after its construction. Similar to a larger, huge altar that was found in the same area in 1965, the altars are similar to that altar. The foundation of the altar is claimed to be inscribed with the words DVSARI SACRVM, which translate as "holy to Dusares."
This inscription refers to Dushara, the chief deity of the Nabatean pantheon and a deity unique to this religion. The researchers claim that votive niches on the tops of the altars found in the drowned temple once held betyls, tiny sacred stones used as deity effigies.
The Nabatean pantheon was aniconic, as are all monotheistic religions.
Instead, the submerged temple shows how the pantheon represented the gods that were worshipped there using standing stones and other cultic stelae. With the discovery of this collection of altars, the total number of Nabatean-related discoveries in this area of the buried city now stands at five. There might be other relics dispersed throughout the seafloor.
The existence of this Nabatean temple has long been known. Archaeologists haven't yet been able to locate it precisely, though. Researchers will now be able to locate the exact site of the temple and possibly gain additional insight into how the Nabateans interacted with locals and business owners.
Discovering these kinds of discoveries is always exciting, especially as archaeologists continue their search for the Atlantis passage, which is still believed to exist. Simply simply, this submerged temple acts as another relic of prior human existence.
In Germany, a 2,300-year-old Celtic tomb was found
Several items have been found in a 2,300-year-old Celtic cremation tomb in Germany, including a folded sword that may have been used in combat, a five-inch pair of scissors, a piece of a shield, a razor, a fibula, a belt chain, and a spearhead.
The objects were found while looking for lost munitions from World War II. According to archaeologist Martina Pauli of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, "the scissors in particular are in exceptional good condition." Such scissors might have been employed when shearing sheep or preparing leather.
The sword was around 30 inches long before it was heated and folded to make it useless, she claimed. Pauli came to the conclusion that while the fibula and belt chain may have belonged to a woman, the weapons may have belonged to a male warrior. Visit "Golden Lucky Charms" to learn more about the Celtic concave gold coins discovered in northeastern Germany.
The earliest cross ever discovered was uncovered in Peru among a temple's ruins
On the central coast of Peru, a group of archaeologists have found a roughly 4,000-year-old temple complex that may have the oldest "Chakana" (Andean cross) in all of South America carved into one of its friezes.
This U-shaped ceremonial structure, which is a component of the Miraflores archaeological site in the coastal province of Huaral, is situated 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Lima in the lower Chancay River Valley.
The temple compound, which spans approximately 70 hectares (170 acres) and is made up of a pyramidal building and two elongated mounds that form a sizable ceremonial plaza in its middle, is now buried beneath masses of rocks and is surrounded by farmland.
The temple was most likely one of the largest, "if not the largest," of Peru's central coast and was most likely constructed during the Formative Period of pre-Columbian Peru (also known as the Initial Period and lasting from roughly 1,800 BCE to 900 BCE). The team of archaeologists was led by Dr. Pieter Van Dalen Luna of the National University of San Marcos.
According to Van Dalen, "We've found walls, corridors, staircases... elements of worship, artifacts used in funerary rituals, and very early style ceramics."
Most astonishingly, however, the team of archaeologists uncovered an enclosure in the upper and rear area of the main pyramid while working on excavations on a three-meter-high (10-foot-high) stone and adobe wall a few weeks ago.
Among its contents, they discovered a "geometrically shaped frieze (with a carving of an Andean Cross, which would be the oldest example of a complete Chakana found in the Andes," according to Van Dalen.
In both Incan and pre-Incan Andean societies, the Chakana is a repeating sign that has the appearance of a square, stepped, 12-cornered cross with a circular center.
The frieze has only been partially excavated by Miraflores archaeologists so far, but they anticipate finishing the cross. If true, it would be the oldest artifact ever discovered in Peru and the entire Andes.
Additionally, it's the first time a Chakana has been discovered at an archaeological site on Peru's central coast, demonstrating the reverence this sacred object received not only in southern Peru but also throughout the Andes, according to Van Dalen.
According to experts, this temple was used throughout the Formative Period as a ceremonial center for the worship of water. As a result, its structure was oriented toward the Chancay River's source and away from the Pacific Ocean's waters.
Invoking water and rain for agricultural output, individuals engaged in a number of religious acts at specific periods of the year, according to Van Dalen.
"The whole population" took part in the rites, contributing their "excess output for the sustenance of the priestly class" that ruled the valley and lived in various areas of the temple.
This religious complex was later abandoned and forgotten due to "social processes possibly driven by climate change or other factors," yet it was occassionally used by other pre-Inca societies, such as the Chancay of the Late Intermediate period (1000 CE - 1476 CE).
The Andean cross was preserved by the Chancay and other later pre-Columbian tribes in Peru, and it is being used as a symbol today.
"A little mysterious" In Germany, a 1,050-year-old building was discovered. What is it?
What is today Germany was dominated by the mighty Ottonian dynasty approximately 1,000 years ago.
Excavations of the site took place during the summer of 2022 and in April and May of 2023, officials said. ROBERT PRUST Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
The Ottonians, especially the powerful ones, originated from a territory that is currently a portion of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The dynasty oversaw the building of churches, monasteries, and castles throughout the area, many of which served as bases for itinerant kings and political leaders.
Now, through a series of excavation initiatives, archaeologists and specialists with the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt are attempting to discover more about the dynasty and its rule.
The excavations in the Altenburg of Großwangen were overseen by Felix Biermann, who told McClatchy News that one such expedition there yielded startling outcomes.
Part of the “unusual” mortar wall that was excavated. Felix Biermann Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
'Rather Mysterious' Finding
Archaeologists discovered two eminent buildings at the location: an outer castle and a rectangular core castle. Experts claim that the ramparts and ditches that encircle the castles are remnants of Ottonian defences.
When specialists analyzed their findings, they were shocked to learn that the main castle was extraordinarily well-protected, according to Biermann.
Archaeologists discovered a significantly more intricate free-standing mortar wall dating back around 1,050 years, as opposed to comparable constructions reinforced with wood-and-earth ramparts capped by stone walls, according to Biermann. The most significant castles and complexes from the period contain the only other comparable buildings.
As a result, the Altenburg is unusual and rather enigmatic, according to Biermann. There is currently strong evidence that the Ottonian emperor's ambitious ambition to establish a new capital here was a failure.
The planned constructions may not have been the most significant for monarchs, but they could have provided security for a nearby, more significant castle.
Stone and clay domes were found at the site. Felix Biermann Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
Powerful leaders are undoubtedly engaged in their building, according to experts.
The Altenburg was unquestionably a key component of Ottonian rule, according to Biermann. One of the Ottonian kings undoubtedly had grand ambitions for the Altenburg and Memleben dominion complex that were never realized.
Additional Medieval Artifacts Found
Archaeologists also unearthed a number of early Middle Ages relics in addition to the wall.
Numerous small homes, stone and clay dome ovens, ceramics, animal bones, knives, and lances were discovered, according to specialists.
Archaeologists unearthed pieces of Ottonian pottery at the site. Felix Biermann Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
These discoveries, according to Biermann, were predicted. "We had preconceived notions about the anticipated results. On the basis of its structural characteristics, it was assumed that the Altenburg belonged to the early Middle Ages, he added. The enormous size and strength of the free-standing mortar wall, on the other hand, as well as the low level of use of the castle, which did not match this construction effort, came as a big surprise.
Berlin is located roughly 150 kilometers southwest of The Altenburg.
The Most Expensive Artifacts and Antiques Ever Sold
Have you ever wondered what the most expensive artifacts and antiques in history are? From diamond-studded tiaras to ancient sculptures, some of these items are worth more than most of us could ever dream of. Join us as we explore the fascinating stories behind the ten most expensive artifacts and antiques ever sold.
In this video, we'll take a closer look at some of the most rare and valuable objects in the world, including the famous Pink Star diamond, the Qing Dynasty Jadeite Cabbage, and the Habsburg Tiara. We'll also explore the history and significance of each item, and discuss why they fetched such enormous prices at auction.
Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old rock-cut face in the Roman fort of Benidorm
Archaeologists from the University of Alicante have discovered a rock carved face at the Tossal de La Cala, a roman fort in Benidorm on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
Archaeologists from the University of Alicante discovered a 2,000-year-old rock-carved “inscultura” face with three artistic representations of a human face, a cornucopia, and a phallus during excavations.
The carving was described by University of Alicante professor Jesús Moratalla, head of the excavation, as “a relief of outstanding historical importance”.
The carving measures 57 x 42 centimeters, however, Moratalla and his team believe that this scene is “possibly incomplete” since “the upper right quadrant” being missing.
Historical and Cultural Heritage Councilor Ana Pellicer said that there are no parallel references to engraving and reliefs of similar composition at sites in Rome.
New DNA Research Modifies Human Species Origin
According to a new theory of human evolution, numerous closely related groups gave rise to Homo sapiens
A new model for human evolution asserts that modern Homo sapiens stemmed from multiple genetically diverse populations across Africa rather than a single ancestral population. This conclusion was reached after researchers analyzed genetic data from present-day African populations, including 44 newly sequenced genomes from the Nama group of southern Africa.
The earliest discernible separation between Homo sapiens and other different species occurred between 120,000 and 135,000 years ago, following extended periods of genetic mixing, according to a recent study published in Nature, which contradicts long-held beliefs.
Researchers have discovered a new model of human evolution, disproving earlier theories that claim that a single African population gave rise to all humans. They did this by analyzing the genetic makeup of current populations in Africa and comparing it to fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there. On May 17, the journal Nature published the latest study.
Although it is well known that Homo sapiens began in Africa, Brenna Henn, professor of anthropology at the Genome Center at UC Davis, and the study's corresponding author, said that it is unclear how human evolution branches diverged and how humans moved across the continent.
"This uncertainty is due to limited fossil and ancient genomic data, as well as the fact that the fossil record does not always align with expectations from models built using modern DNA," the author stated. "This new study alters the theory of species origins."
View of the village of Kuboes, on the border of South Africa and Namibia. DNA samples were collected from Nama individuals who have historically lived in the region. Credit: Brenna Henn/UC Davis
Henn and Simon Gravel of McGill University co-led research that used population genome data from southern, eastern, and western Africa to examine various opposing theories of evolution and migration across Africa that have been put forth in the paleoanthropological and genetics literature.
The 44 modern Nama people from southern Africa, an Indigenous population noted for having very high levels of genetic variation in comparison to other modern groups, were included in the authors' study along with newly sequenced genomes. Between 2012 and 2015, researchers collected saliva samples from contemporary people going about their daily lives in their communities in order to generate genetic data.
The model predicts that after two or more slightly genetically distinct Homo populations had been mixing for hundreds of thousands of years, the earliest population split among early humans that is discernible in modern populations took place 120,000 to 135,000 years ago. People continued to move between the stem populations after the population split, resulting in a weakly structured stem. The authors argue that this provides a more comprehensive account of genetic variation within and between human populations than earlier theories.
Henn stated of the study, "We are presenting something that people have never even tested before." This makes major progress in anthropological science.
Nama woman standing in the doorway to her home in Kuboes, South Africa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Credit: Justin Myrick-Tarrant/with permission
Tim Weaver, co-author and professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, noted that earlier, more complex models had suggested contributions from archaic hominins, but that this model shows otherwise. He contributed comparative research for the study and is an authority on the appearance of early human fossils.
According to the scientists' predictions, variation in the stem populations will account for 1-4% of genetic difference between modern human populations. The application of this paradigm could have significant ramifications for how the fossil record is interpreted. These numerous lineages were likely morphologically similar due to migration between them, which means morphologically different hominid fossils (such Homo naledi) are unlikely to represent branches that helped to evolve Homo sapiens, according to the authors.
Researchers are going to look into where the smuggled relics from Turkey came from
A team of Turkish and German historians will investigate the provenance of the items recovered at the archaeological sites at Zincirlihöyük, Didim, and Samarra as part of a project launched by state museums in Berlin for the return of stolen historical relics.
The focus of the study will be on whether the excavation of historical objects from various geographies displayed in Berlin museums or their entry into Germany constitutes criminality.
The pilot project, which involves Turkish and German scholars, will first look at the origin of artifacts found at archaeological sites in Iraq and the former Ottoman Empire's Samarra, Didim in the southwest and Zincirlihöyük in the southeast.
Return mechanisms will be used between the nations if investigation reveals that the excavation effort was illegal or it is determined that historical relics were smuggled.
It was also stressed that this endeavor might open the door for the return of numerous historical treasures that have been smuggled out of Turkey.
German origin studies have thus far concentrated on colonial-era artifacts and purchases that may have been looted by the Nazis.
Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, said during a news conference in Berlin that "visitors increasingly want to know where objects came from."
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, foreign teams were frequently awarded excavation licenses that contained agreements outlining how found objects would be shared between the host nation and the visiting archaeologists.
However, Christina Haak, the deputy director of the Berlin State Museums, claimed that these agreements are frequently broken and that illegal actions were utilized to obtain the findings.
According to Haak, the three archaeological sites whose artifacts are the subject of the pilot project are situated in the Ottoman Empire.
The classical antiquities collection's deputy director, Martin Maischberger, stated that some dubious instances need more investigation.
According to Maischberger, the 8,000 pictures in the Berlin archives hold important information regarding how unearthed artefacts were treated.
A display covering the future period of archaeological cooperation between Germany and the Ottoman Empire is also being prepared by the institutions.
The Pergamon Altar is one of the most significant pieces of art in Berlin that was illegally exported from Turkish land.
The Pergamon Altar, which was smuggled from Turkey to Prussia in the 1870s and is currently on exhibit in Berlin, has been missing for many years, and the Turkish government has been working to have it returned.
The altar could be able to go back to its original location thanks to this project.
The epic voyage to oblivion of an ancient beast is revealed through South African fossils
The future of life on Earth was bleak. At the conclusion of the Permian Period, around 252 million years ago, runaway global warming brought on by catastrophic volcanism in Siberia caused the largest mass extinction on record, wiping out perhaps 90% of all species.
This undated illustration shows the Permian Period tiger-sized saber-toothed protomammal Inostrancevia atop its dicynodont prey, scaring off the much smaller species Cyonosaurus. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Unlike the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, this extinction event took place over a long period of time, with species dying off one by one as the situation grew worse. Scientists said on Monday that fossils discovered in South Africa offer a glimpse into this drama, telling the story of an apex predator that travelled halfway around the globe over several generations in a last-ditch effort to live.
Prior to additional bones being found at a farm in central South Africa, information about this creature, a tiger-sized, saber-toothed mammal precursor known as Inostrancevia, had only been gleaned from fossils discovered in Russia's northwest corner bordering the Arctic Sea.
The fossils indicate that Inostrancevia left its home region and journeyed over time—possibly hundreds or thousands of years—across the ancient supercontinent Pangaea, when the continents of today were united, covering around 7,000 miles (12,000 km). After four other species had previously gone extinct in South Africa, Inostrancevia filled the ecological void left by the top predator.
Inostrancevia and all of its closest relatives perished in the mass extinction known as "the Great Dying," according to palaeontologist Christian Kammerer of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, who is also the lead author of the study that was published in the journal Current Biology.
"So, they have no living descendants, but they are a member of the larger group called synapsids, which includes mammals as living representatives," Kammerer continued.
Inostrancevia is a member of the group of creatures known as protomammals, which combines characteristics of both reptiles and mammals. It was around the size of a Siberian tiger, 10 to 13 feet (3 to 4 meters) long, but had a proportionately larger and elongated cranium, as well as massive, blade-like canine fangs.
According to Kammerer, "I think these animals mostly killed prey with their saber-like canine fangs and either carved out chunks of meat with the serrated incisors or, if the prey was small enough, swallowed the prey whole."
The body of Inostrancevia possessed a peculiar position that was characteristic of protomammals; it was neither sprawled like a reptile nor erect like a mammal, but rather a combination of the two, with splayed forelimbs and mainly erect rear limbs. In addition, it lacked the face muscles found in mammals and was incapable of lactation.
"Whether these animals were furry or not remains an open question," stated Kammerer.
The mass extinction, which took place over the course of about a million years, prepared the way for the emergence of dinosaurs during the following Triassic Period. Large-scale volcanism unleashed lava flows throughout much of Eurasia and released tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for a very long time. Global desertification, an increase in ocean acidification, a rise in global temperatures, and a decrease in atmospheric and oceanic oxygen content were all brought on by this.
Because they needed the greatest food and area, top predators were particularly susceptible to extinction.
The field location where the fossils of Permian Period tiger-sized saber-toothed protomammal Inostrancevia were found - a farm called Nooitgedacht in the Free State Province of Karoo Basin, South Africa is seen in this undated handout photo. | Photo Credit: Reuters
They have a propensity to grow slowly and produce few progeny. Top predators are disproportionately impacted when ecosystems are disrupted, prey supplies are diminished, or there is a lack of adequate habitat, according to Kammerer.
The Permian catastrophe and the current, human-caused climate change are comparable in the eyes of the academics.
These species were directly impacted by the climate disaster brought on by global warming, thus they truly had no alternative but to adapt or perish. The fact that they survived for a short time despite these circumstances clearly demonstrates this, but eventually they all vanished, according to research co-author and paleontologist Pia Viglietti of the Field Museum in Chicago.
Viglietti continued, "Unlike our Permian forebears, we actually have the potential to do something to stop this kind of ecosystem collapse from occurring again."
Ancient Tunnel Just Discovered In Egypt Reveals Cleopatra's Tomb Location
Archeologists have made some ground-breaking discoveries about the most intriguing civilization to ever live on Earth: Ancient Egypt. From Cleopatra's tomb, one of the biggest topics of discussion in the world of archeology, to a lost underwater city, here are some of the most astounding archaeological finds from ancient Egypt.
This Wave Happens Once in 10,000 Years, Scientists Have Finally Captured It
This wave happens once in 10,000 years - let's see what happened when scientists finally capture it. Watch the video below to find out!
Could Short-Faced Bear Survive Nowadays?
The short-faced bears that once roamed North America belonged to the genus Arctodus. Two species were found on the continent during the Pleistocene- the lesser short-faced bear, Arctodus pristinus which predominantly lived during the early Pleistocene, and the giant short-faced bear, Arctodus simus, which predominantly lived towards the end of the Pleistocene. Both species likely overlapped with each other but Arctodus simus evolved from Arctodus pristinus.
The bears were similar in appearance to today's bears but considerably larger. The biggest was the giant short-faced bear which could grow up to 950 kilograms (or 2000 pounds) in weight, had a shoulder height of 1.6 meters (or 5.2 feet) and when standing on its hind legs could reach heights of 4 meters (or 13 feet). Although they are considered to have been omnivorous like many of today's bears, they are thought to be the largest carnivorous land mammals that ever lived.
Here, we ask the question, could short-faced bears survive nowadays?
This is The Most Dangerous Animal in Antarctica
Antarctica is a harsh place. In addition to low temperatures, endless ice, and piercing winds, it boasts creepy animals that pose a danger to other animals and humans alike. From cute and extremely aggressive predators to killer whales and multimeter long squids, — in this video we will show you the most dangerous animal in Antarctica and tell you what is it capable of.
Golden Mountains Appeared After The Dried Up Euphrates River Finished
One of the oldest and most important rivers in the world is the Euphrates. This river is where a lot of history happened. Parts of western Asia are crossed by the Euphrates River, but it is drying up. In the past, there have been problems with the river's water level going down. And why is the Euphrates River so important? Some people think that when a river dries up, the world will end. Is this true? Keep Watching to find out why and what it means that the Euphrates River is drying up.
The Euphrates River starts in Turkey and flows through Syria and Iraq. Before it goes into the Persian Gulf, the river flows into the Tigris. The basin is about 190,000 square miles on average and is about 1,700 miles long. The longest river in Western Asia is this one. Most of the time, the water level is higher from April to May because it rains and snow melts more. Along the river, some of the original plants are still there. For example, the Euphrates River flows through a dry forest in the southeast Turkey mountains. Along the river's edge, you can also find a wide range of plants and trees, such as rose/plum, pistachio, and oak trees. Cereal grains like wheat, rye, and oat grow well in places that are dry.
Europe Countries Population 1600-2022 | Kingdoms, Empires, Republics | Napoleonic Wars, WW1, WW2
In this video we compare the population of European countries and the surrounding area for the last 4 centuries that have seen great changes in the size and composition. Europe today has eight times the amount of people it did just 400 years ago. This data series focuses on what the largest polities were throughout recent history. Given the challenges of demography, the visualization begins in 1600 and details the numerous changes to population within the interim period.
Old Camera Was Just Found That Shows A Lost Civilization Hidden In Antarctica
In the following video we will be exploring a lost civilization hidden in Antarctica, which was brought to light by an old camera that was recently found. Enjoy!
Scientists Have Just Found An Untouched Civilization In The Amazon Jungle
Even with our advanced and globally connected world, there are still some spots in the furthest reaches of the planet where no man has set foot. These areas are so remote and shrouded in dense wilderness that it doesn’t seem possible that it had ever been anything else, but very often, these remote places offer up the most perplexing mysteries of the past. From spooky Cryptid figures stalking the woods to massive hidden cities that could only be used by ancient giants, here are 15 Mysterious Discoveries Found In The Dense Wilderness.
