How white skin evolved in Europeans: Pale complexions only spread in the region 8,000 years ago, study claims

Humans around the world display myriad skin tones and eye colors that are fascinating and wonderful in their variety. Research continues on to see how people have acquired the features they have now and when to complete our puzzle of ancient human history. New anthropology research now suggests that light-colored skin and the tallness associated with European genetics are relatively recent tr

“Girl, Same”: Female Frogs Will Do Anything – Even Fake Death – To Avoid Males, Study Shows

Most of us have been in a similar situation: you’re out and about, dancing the night away with your best friends when you spot someone in the corner. That someone usually has a sleazy smile plastered all over his smug face, as he advances to the dancefloor, determined to impress you with the worst, I mean best, dance moves you’ve ever seen. It’s awkward, uncomfortable, and sometimes there is

3000-Year-Old Pharaoh Ramses II Statue Found In Cairo Slum, And It’s “One Of The Most Important Discoveries Ever”

The massive 26 ft (8 meters) statue was found in the groundwater of a Cairo slum by archaeologists from Egypt and Germany. It is likely to represent revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who controlled Egypt more than three thousand years ago, researchers say. The find was made near the remnants of the temple of Ramses II, in the old city of Héliopolis in the eastern part of modern Cairo, one of the most

Paret kjøpte falleferdig hus fra 1912. Se hvordan det ser ut nå

1. 12 Velkommen til Scandinavian News. I dette innlegget skal vi se et virkelig vakkert hus renovert av dette paret. Prosessen er ganske inspirerende. De var ikke helt sikre på at det var så lurt det de hadde gjort, Lisa Petersson (27) og Gusten Lantz (28) da de kjøpte det falleferdige huset i Faggemåla i Sverige. Lisa hadde knapt tatt i en malerkost før. Men tre år senere er huset f

Orphaned gorilla, famous for viral selfie, dies in the arms of her human rescuer

Sometimes animals become orphaned, and rely on the kindness of humans for survival. Thankfully, there are many people who devote their lives to taking care of these animals, and can become like a parent to them. The trust between these animals and their caretakers was exemplified in one viral photo, which showed two orphaned gorillas posing for a “selfie” with one of their rescuers. Sad

Earth-Sized Planet Made of Solid Iron Found Orbiting a Nearby Star

We can't understand nature without understanding its range. That's apparent in exoplanet science and in our theories of planetary formation. Nature's outliers and oddballs put pressure on our models and motivate scientists to dig deeper. Gliese 367 b (or Tahay) is certainly an oddball. It's an Ultrashort Period (USP) planet that orbits its star in only 7.7 hours. There are almost 200 o

Man Has Chance Encounter With The Animal World’s Most Adorable ‘Florist’

Earlier this month, officials from Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah shared a post highlighting the unique behavior of one of the region's most adorable and little-known species — the American pika. These tiny animals, a diminutive species related to rabbits, spend their days in rocky outcrops at higher altitudes, where they forage for their favorite food: wildflowers. But pikas don

This Train Has An Amazing View Of The Andes

The Andes are quite the sight to see but no one sees them better than the crew of this train.

March 16th, 1978 : Amaco Cadiz oil spill, the day the sea turned black

  40 years ago, the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 5 km (3.1 mi) from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. photo : Ouest France From JerseyEvening FOUR decades after a devastating oil spill off the Brittany coast threatened to

Photographer Captures Rare Rainbow Contrails Pumping Out of an Airplane

Soumyadeep Mukherjee from India, tells PetaPixel that on July 19 he was planning to capture a solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) but things went awry. “I had set up by 17:00 on my terrace and was all ready. However, clouds rolled in and I couldn’t capture the ISS,” he explains. “I was casually roaming on the terrace when I saw sun dogs (another optical phenomeno