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However, despite recent findings that suggest plesiosaurs were adapted to tolerate freshwater and might have even spent their entire lives in it, a research project published to the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology by scientist Paul Scofield showed that plesiosaurs were actually very unlikely to ever lift their heads above the water. It is much more likely, according to Scofield, that plesiosaurs used their long necks to dredge the seafloor. “They have these enormous teeth arranged…
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This article is more than two years old and was last updated in October 2021. The Mel Meter is a paranormal multi-tool designed by Gary Galka, a name that may be familiar to some as Gary occasionally appears on the long-running US ghost hunting show, ‘Ghost Adventures’. He invents paranormal investigation tools for Zak Bagans and the rest of the show’s team. The device is named after Gary’s late daughter, the word Mel is short…
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If you believe in the paranormal you might not be surprised if you hear stories of deceased loved ones appearing during the night, huge explosions heard just as someone is drifting off with no obvious cause, and other peculiar occurrences. But what if you don’t? My interest in the paranormal started with an impromptu coffee with a colleague, Chris French, who researches reports of paranormal experiences. He told me stories of countless people who had recounted…
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The hunts for lost islands filled with dinosaurs and ancient animals that survived extinction went down substantially when the movie “Jurassic Park” opened and brought the idea of de-extinction through cloning or other means to the public. Since then, each discovery of a frozen carcass in Siberia or when preserved remains of a recently extinct creature like the Tasmanian tiger are found, the news leads to speculation that THIS is the animal that will be…
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A fateful asteroid caused the demise of the (non-avian) dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But that wasn’t an isolated event. Many of the mass extinctions in our planet’s past were caused by meteorite impacts, and it remains a clear and present danger today. In 2013, the Chelyabinsk meteoroid, as big as a six-story building, broke up over Russia and produced a blast stronger than a nuclear explosion. Only a century earlier, the Tunguska meteoroid exploded…