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The Most Brutal Deaths Ever Preserved In Fossils Feb 01, 2025

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To scrape by back in the old days you had to be extremely tough, but as these 9 Fossils show, sometimes being among the toughest animals to ever exist, still gets you nothing but a painful ending.

When Thalassophobia Kept You Alive Jan 25, 2025

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When you go swimming in the ocean or seas, the last thing you want to swim into is a shark... but what happens when everything is a shark?

The Giant Humans That Hunted & Cannibalized Neanderthals Jan 19, 2025

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Ice age Europe wasn't exactly the most welcoming of places...

The Only Predators To Dominate The Dinosaurs Jan 11, 2025

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When you think of the biggest and baddest group of animals to ever live, you likely imagine the dinosaurs. And why wouldn’t you? They were the largest land carnivores and herbivores to ever live. So, it may then surprise you that dinosaurs were actually at one point in their existence ruled by a much less famous group of animals…

The Hidden Timer That Kills Every Species Dec 29, 2024

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The hardest game ever is the one we are forced to play & that's life, and within it their seems to be a number that only 1% make it past, which begs the question...why?

26,000 Years Ago Europe Was Hell Dec 21, 2024

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"Am I cooked?" - Cro-Magnon (c. 26,000 BCE)

The Moment Thalassophobia Was Born Dec 15, 2024

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Water, especially deep water, a big no no for many. And this is for good reason, but once upon a time, the oceans and seas of Earth were actually pretty chill, so how did it go so wrong? When was Thalassophobia born?

Earth Once Had Hobbits & It Absolutely Sucked To Be Them Dec 08, 2024

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Hobbits have cozy lives right? True, until you put them in the real world and on an island with giant reptiles, then you got yourself some brutally awful experiences.

The Time When Sharks Were The Least Of Your Worries Nov 30, 2024

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Some 150,000,000 Years Ago, before the Bull Shark, the Great White, or the Megalodon, there was... the Pliosaurus

The Worst Time To Have Ever Been A Human Nov 23, 2024

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We all go through ups and downs in life, but for this particular human species, it was only downs.