“It’s just such an awesome image to think about: a giant flying dragon, essentially, coming down and preying on these dinosaurs,” says Ben Thomas, a paleontology graduate student at the University of Portsmouth, England. Earlier this year, Thomas released a video on his paleontology-themed YouTube channel about his visit to the Altmühltal Museum in...

In the village of Dinoša, not far from Montenegro's capital Podgorica, stands a century-old mulberry tree that has been described as a miracle because of the waterfall that occasionally bursts from its trunk. It is believed that there exist a number of underground springs in the village, from which water may overflow after a heavy rain especially...

Maungauika (the Mountain of Uika) is named for one of its original Māori inhabitants of around 800 years ago, and at over 50,000 years old, is one of the oldest cones in the Auckland volcanic field. In the 1880s during the global "Russian scares," the government rushed to build fortifications on top of and around the maunga, built and maintained...

Yasaka Kōshin-dō is a distinctive temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama district, close to the city’s famous Kiyomizu-dera pagoda. Yasaka Kōshin-dō, as a rare example of a Kōshin temple, presents a cultural and religious tapestry of Buddhist, Taoist, and Shinto elements.  Yasaka Kōshin-dō’s most iconic feature is its vibrant kukurizaru, small balls of bright...

It is certainly not the most famous and visited church in Bergamo, but the Chiesa del Santo Spirito (Holy Spirit Chuch) is one of the hidden jewels the Italian city. The exterior is an incoherent mix of styles spanning a period of 400 years, from the 14th to the 18th centuries, but the interior is a treasure trove of works of art. Although most of...

Henrietta Lacks' date of passing on her gravestone reads October 4, 1951, but in some regard, Lacks is immortal. During her cancer treatment, some of Lacks' cells were nonconsensually extracted and cultivated, becoming the first immortalized human cell line, called HeLa. Lacks was born in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1920, but she would spend much of her...