Skip to main content

Morning Overview

Author

BeckhamLangford

Latest Articles by BeckhamLangford

A vast African stone city was built without mortar and later dismissed as legend

Stone circles in the Egyptian desert are a thousand years older than Stonehenge

A stone tomb in Ireland older than the pyramids lines up perfectly with the winter sunrise

Bronze masks with bulging eyes from a lost Chinese kingdom still baffle archaeologists

Roman concrete quietly heals its own cracks, and scientists finally figured out how

A 600-year-old book is written in a language no one has ever managed to read

A 2,000-year-old jar from Iraq may have worked as a simple battery

No one knows what the Romans used their strange bronze dodecahedrons for

The basilisk lizard can sprint straight across the surface of water to escape danger

An emperor penguin can dive nearly 1,800 feet and hold its breath for 20 minutes

The Goliath birdeater grows as wide as a dinner plate and hisses when it feels threatened

Hippos kill more people in Africa each year than lions and crocodiles combined

The archerfish shoots down insects with a precise jet of water fired from below the surface

The star-nosed mole can find and swallow prey in a quarter of a second

A wolverine barely 30 pounds can drive a bear off a fresh kill

A cuttlefish can hypnotize its prey with waves of color rippling down its skin

1 56 57 58 59 60 519