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This May Look Like a Giant Grape, but in Fact, It’s the Largest Single Living Cell in the World

When you think about single-celled organisms, what probably comes to mind are tiny bacteria, or amoebas, which you can’t even see without a microscope. Believe it or not, this strange green ball also falls into the same category. A giant grape? No, it’s the largest single-celled organism. Image source: u/kuroi_sny A single-celled organism, or also called a unicellular organi

This Is The Largest Known Insect of All Time, With a Wingspan of 2.5 ft (75 cm)

An enormous representative of the extinct dragonfly-like order of griffinflies is the largest known insect species to have ever lived on Earth. Life-size model of the Permian griffinfly Meganeura. Image credit: Gene McCarthy The largest living insect species we know today are the atlas moth (which sport the largest wings by surface area at 160 cm2 or 25 in2), the white witch mot

These Two Growing Massive Sinkholes in Texas Are Yearning to Unite, With Catastrophic Results

Two breathtaking giant sinkholes in Texas have long been objects of fear and fascination. Aerial view of Wink Sink 1. Image credit: Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin Decades of drilling for oil and gas in Winkler County in the West Texas desert, especially during the peak years between 1926 and 1964, have resulted in an extremely unstable local la

Meteorite That Recently Fell in Somalia Turns Out to Contain Two Minerals Never Before Seen on Earth

Two substances previously not found on Earth have been identified and named. A slice of the El Ali meteorite that fell in Somalia in 2020. Image credit: University of Alberta A giant meteorite that fell in Somalia in 2020 contains at least two minerals that have never before been seen on our planet. The minerals have been identified by researchers at the University of Alberta, ac

Perfectly Preserved Mammoth Bone Dwellings Found in Ukraine May Be the Earliest Examples of Architecture

Huts built from mammoth bones found along the Dniepr river valley of Ukraine (and also at locations in Moravia, Czech Republic, and in southern Poland) may be the earliest structures built by prehistoric man, and thus the earliest examples of architecture. Perhaps the earliest example of domed architecture, the mammoth huts found in Mezhyrich, Ukraine, could be up to 25,000 years old. “Mammot

Man Finds Skeleton in His Backyard – Turns Out It’s the Largest Dinosaur Ever Found in Europe

Imagine waking up one fine day, only to find out that one of the most gigantic creatures to have ever walked the Earth once resided in your backyard. The research carried out at the Monte Agudo paleontological site underlines the importance of the fossil record of vertebrates in the Pombal region (Portugal). Image credit: Instituto Dom Luiz (Faculty of Sciences of the University of

Archeologists Discover “Sistine Chapel of the Ancients” With Thousands of Ice Age Rock Paintings

Deep within the dense Amazon rainforest in modern-day Colombia, an 8-mile-long “canvas” filled with ice age drawings of giant sloths, mastodons and other extinct beasts has been discovered. Image credit: Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia The amazing drawings made with ochre – a red natural clay pigment widely used as paint in the ancient world – are located at in the Colombian A

Scientists Discover Giant Sinkhole in China With Primeval ‘Lost World’ Inside

Chinese scientists have discovered an ancient lost world in an extraordinarily deep and large sinkhole in south China, where they expect to find flora and fauna still unknown to science. The way to the new “lost world” in China. Image credit: Xinhua News Agency The giant sinkhole was found near Ping’e village in the Leye district of Guangxi, China, Ancient Origins reports

This Interactive Map Shows You What Native Land You’re Living On

Land acknowledgments are a way to pay respect to the Indigenous people who lived on the the land before the arrival of Europeans. A new interactive map allows you to do just that. The map, probably the most popular and sophisticated of its kind, allows you to enter your address, or any address for that matter, and see which Indigenous nations lived on that particular land. If you search the

THERE’S SOMETHING OUT THERE: Astronomers Find Repeating Signals From Galaxy 3 Billion Light-Years Away

“Bursts from this source have never been seen at this high a frequency." On August 26, scientists with the Breakthrough Listen initiative at the University of California (UOC), Berkeley, which is devoted to discovering signs of alien intelligent life, recorded 15 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away. Since FRBs, which last only a few millise