Save the cheerleader, save the whales.
- Is Amazon’s Kindle ebook the future of publishing? I prefer to read Darklore the old-fashioned way.
- Researchers claim a rise in global sea levels caused catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea 8000 years ago, kickstarting European agriculture.
- Geologists Walter Pitman and William Ryan argued this theory almost a decade ago in their book Noah’s Flood (Amazon US or UK).
- A freelance dirt detective has unearthed stunning gold jewellery from a royal Anglo-Saxon burial site. Here’s a photo of the loot.
- Archaeologists are convinced they have found the place of worship where Romans believed a she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus.
- A new study suggests Maya rituals caused an ancient decline in big game such as jaguars.
- Over a hundred ancient jade artifacts in museums across southeast Asia have been traced back to Taiwan.
- Priceless Buddhist art in China’s Dunhuang caves are threatened by expanding deserts.
- Archaeologists have found the fossilised remains of a human ancestor that lived about 2-million-years-ago near Wushan, the oldest ever found in China
- Tourists reportedly saw two Yeren, China’s Bigfoot, in the Shennongjia Nature Reserve.
- About-dot-com’s Stephen Wagner looks at evidence for lost civilisations in Brad Steiger’s Worlds Before Our Own (Amazon US or UK).
- Is the Goatman of North America a shameless hoax or evidence of satyrs journeying to the New World with the Pilgrims?
- Wired presents Star Trek’s 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures. Tribbles didn’t make the list, but I love the horned white gorilla.
- Scientists have found a fossilised claw that came from a 400-million-year-old 8-foot-long scorpion-like creature.
- A 12-ton Minke whale lost in the tributaries of Brazil’s Amazon River has been found dead.
- Japan has detained five people since beginning fingerprint checks compulsory for all foreign visitors.
- Protesting against whale hunting is enough for Japanese police to issue a warrant for your arrest. The popularity of Heroes won’t save the cheerleader.
- In Angola and Congo, hundreds of children suspected of witchcraft are abandoned or abused.
- An Italian animal rights group aims to stop the slaughter of thousands of black cats killed by superstitious nuffnuffs.
- This two-faced cat is lucky it wasn’t born in Italy.
Quote of the Day:
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in Heaven.