250 million years ago, the giant ancestors of today’s salamanders swam from the area of today’s Norwegian Arctic to the west coast of Australia.
This monumental trip placed it, many years later, under the brushes and picks of paleontologists who incorrectly identified it. The fossils would later travel all over the world much like the animal did in life, before being placed in storage and forgotten about.
94 years ago today, Johnny Cash was born. The American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author was widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash a rare honor: multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. WATCH Cash perform in San Quentin Prison… (1932)
Reprinted with permission from World at Large News
In South Africa, a strategy 6 years in the making to protect rhinos from poaching, as ingenious as it is dramatic, is now being implemented on the ground in the country’s game reserves and parks.
A soccer player for an amateur league team in Istanbul had to unexpectedly deputize as an emergency veterinarian during a match in the Turkish city last weekend.
The goalkeeper for a team playing in red went to boot the ball upfield, but instead left the entire pitch in shock when the ball traveled a mere 20 yards and walloped a passing seagull.
A bride who was filmed dancing at her wedding reception while undergoing treatment for cystic fibrosis has gone viral.
“CF doesn’t stop no party ✨” was Dannika Evans’ opinion when she posted the video to her TikTok account, where she was doing her best to dance while wearing a special oscillation vest with a nebulizer stuck between her teeth.
Long before antibiotics were invented, biotics—i.e. bacteria—had developed resistance to them.
When researchers examined a bacterial strain called Psychrobacter discovered in 5,000-year-old layers of cave ice, they found it was resistant to 10 modern antibiotics.
298 years ago today, John Wood the Younger, a famous British architect who gave the nation such famous works as the Royal Crescent and the Circus in Bath, was born. His craft and determination in succeeding in his father’s storied reputation as a Bath builder elevated the cityscape to be one of the most striking and romantic of any in Britain. His magnum opus is without question the Royal Crescent, a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent of Palladian splendor, considered the finest example of Georgian-era architecture outside London. READ more about his works… (1728)
From Chicago comes the story of a pair of heroes rescuing an infant that had been blown into Lake Michigan.
30-year-old Lio Cundiff was on the phone with his aunt at Belmont Harbor when he felt the wind pick up fiercely, followed by a bloodcurdling scream from a woman close by.
A little goldendoodle has a brighter future ahead of him after abusive treatment by his owner saw her arrested, and an officer leap at the chance to adopt.
The story must, unfortunately, include some rather ugly details before one can salute Officer Skeeter Black for his compassion towards animals.
The mighty Yangtze river has experienced a dramatic improvement in ecological health halfway through a 10-year fishing moratorium.
The focus of a $2.7 billion restoration project, this crucial aquatic artery had been severely degraded by decades of damming, overfishing, fragmentation, pollution, and neglect.
Queensland police say they’ve recovered 4 priceless artifacts of ancient Egyptian antiquity that had been stolen from a museum earlier this month.
190 years ago today, one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America, Winslow Homer, was born. Born in Boston to a father always seeking to pull off a get-rich-quick scheme, Homer was molded by his mother; a talented watercolor painter who taught him the basics. His most prolific period was when he moved to Maine and began to paint the robustness of fishing and seagoing cultures there, producing iconic imagery of 19th-century America such as The Gulf Stream, The Fog Warning, and Breezing Up (A Fair Wind). READ about the man’s life and see some of his paintings… (1836)
