Category: #History

The climate crisis has taken so much away from us that we’ll never get back: people, places, wildlife, even languages. Now, it’s destroying some of…

For years, paleontologists and paleobotanists have spent time on Wyoming’s Hanna Formation, a 58-million-year-old zone of rock in the southern part of the state that…

An excellent animated explainer covering the first fighter jet, Nazi Germany’s Me-262, the revered long-range fighter escort of the European theater, the P-51D Mustang, and…

When I was 5 years old I watched Bimbo’s Initiation, and its psychedelic brilliance had an ever-lasting impression on me. The animated short starring Bimbo…

One of eight sketches by Leonardo da Vinci still privately owned, this 8-inch square sketch of a bear will go up for auction next month….

Italian archaeologists believe most of Neanderthals were killed by hyenas then dragged back to den Italian archaeologists have unearthed the bones of nine Neanderthals who…

‘Quite spectacular’ discovery shows three-year-old child was carefully laid to rest nearly 80,000 years ago Archaeologists have identified the oldest known human burial in Africa…

u/Keltik says: “[In 1952] Mr. Potato Head became the first toy advertised on TV and the first ad campaign to be aimed directly at children…

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Egypt has gone archeology-crazy in the last year, uncovering lost cities and parading dozens of pharaohs in the street…

The animal bones were discovered during the construction of a pool and are between 6,000 and 14,000 years old. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/ice-age-era-bones-found-las-vegas-backyard-n1265923 Droolin’ Dog sniffed out…

Activists, scholars, and families of survivors are working to unearth the horrors of a 1921 race riot that destroyed a thriving, middle-class Black community and…

Researchers have published a new study that found the continental crust on Earth emerged 500 million years earlier than previously believed. According to the team,…

Democrats praised President Biden on Saturday after he recognized the massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as a…

American democracy has had a rough few years. We seem to have worn out the word “unprecedented.” Even if the pace of the news out…

In 1981, the great Debbie Harry of Blondie joined the great Kermit the Frog on The Muppet Show to sing the latter’s iconic song “The…

Alongside the tiny humans that once inhabited the Philippines lived several hitherto unknown species of giant rats, according to a new study published today in…

Americans don’t reckon with history well, especially when it comes to the indigenous people our forefathers displaced (and worse) in order to live on this…

Maryland state officials said in a news release Monday that archaeologists working on land owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service believe they have…

Scientists found remains of the sauropod in rocks from what is today the Atacama desert. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56814655 Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and shared…

Paleontologists say a mass grave in Utah shows the dinosaurs may not have always been solitary predators as previously thought Tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have…

Above, from 1965, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones’s screen tests for The Monkees. From Wikipedia: In September 1964 Davy Jones was…

Lucia Newman explores a rapidly escalating conflict and talks to the elusive leader of the main armed Indigenous group. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/4/12/a-journey-through-chiles-conflict-with-mapuche-resistance-groups Droolin’ Dog sniffed out…