https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66361506
What an amazing story! He was digging a pool for his children when he struck a bone.
More details at the link.
This is a project logging the marine life off the coast of Wales, with particular interest in sharks, skates and rays
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64042449
Here is the website for SIARC
https://www.projectsiarc.com/
There is an opportunity to get involved by viewing clips from the...
The world's largest freshwater fish has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia and no, it is not a catfish but a gigantic stingray. Do go and look at the photo at the link to see this amazing creature. :D
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61862169
You will be relieved to hear that...
Yes!
Okay, it is the fossil of a very extinct flying reptile that has been named that by its discoverers. :)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61568468
More at the link including some pictures of what it would have looked like.
They actually discovered a pair of these reptiles...
Have you ever thought about what a great idea it would be to trade in onion futures in the USA? Well who hasn't? Unfortunately it is illegal, and here is a brief summary of why.
In 1955, two Chicago onion traders Sam Siegal and Vincent Kosuga bought so many onions and onion futures (an...
This is amazing! A man was doing landscaping work at Rutland reservoir when he noticed a huge 200 million year old marine reptile skeleton sticking out of the mud. As you do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59915689
A mineral has been discovered in a diamond which has come from the Earth's lower mantle. Normally such minerals don't survive as they need extreme pressure to hold their form but this one has survived as it is encased within a diamond. It is thought to have been formed somewhere between 660 and...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53308981
Fascinating study that has found over 250 words for a small multi-legged crustacean in the UK. Most of the words come from England and it is thought this might be because they have a form that rolls into a ball when...
I have just read this and would like some talking therapy to help rehabilitate. I believe @Frideswide is a fan? Anyone else?
After finishing I went to find out more about Emily Bronte and discovered that she had been drinking water that had filtered through the cemetery. :eek: It would explain...
I have never heard of this before. Every year South Ronaldsay has a ploughing competition for boys using miniature plough. The girls dress up as Clydesdale horses! It's amazing. Do look at the photos. I love the little frills round the wrists and ankles like the real horses have...
I have never heard of this before. This unfortunate lady lacks an enzyme which breaks down trimethylamine in her gut causing her to smell of rotten fish!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-51006604
Here is a more in-depth discussion of the condition...
Apparently more and more people are getting married to themselves. Yes cake, flowers, guests, everything.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42415394
They are spending thousands of pounds on it. Some of them are already married.
Seems terribly sad to me. I would be horrified if someone...
What are peoples views on hanging a wreath on the front door at Christmas?
I shudder when I see this as wreaths are for dead people. But I read recently that hanging a wreath on your door invites good luck into your house. No, it definitely invites death!
It would be interesting to see the...
Does anyone fancy trying a Tarot card reading experiment? Just for fun.
I propose getting few people interested, drawing a single Tarot spread completely at random and publishing the results here to look at the basis of cold reading. Obviously real cold reading requires real-time feedback but I...
You're so vain, you probably think this thread is about you..
There has been some discussion on other threads about narcissism and its increase in recent years and I find it a very interesting topic and well worth its own thread.
Note that very few people actually have a narcissistic...
This phenomena is often related to guardian angels but I think it deserves its own thread.
It is the feeling sometimes experienced by people who are undergoing some severe physical and mental exertion that another, mysterious person is with you.
The name comes from a poem by T.S. Eliot The...
I thought we had a thread on this but I couldn't find one.
A bizarre report of an explosion under a floating restraunt in Leith in yesterdays Edinburgh Evening News
The smell of sulhpur made me wonder if it was one of those gas explosion thingies thought to be resposible for many mystery...
I wonder if anyone can identify this cat?
When I was a kid I had a book of Fabulous Beasts which contained all kinds of things I have since come across many times (Roc, Pheonix, Chimera etc) except one. It was a gigantic cat with a beautifully patterned coat which lived in forests (can't...
I don't believe there is a thread on this so I thought I'd start one on the back of this bizarre case from Edinburgh at the weekend.
Edinburgh Evening News (needs registration)
The weirdest thing about this is that the father let the fact that he was "stuck in traffic" stop him going after...
The new Tomb Raider game promises to be much better than the unbelievably rubbish Angel of Darkness apparently, which wouldn't TBH be too difficult. I only played it through because I thought I would get to fight a Nephilim at the end and I'm terrified of Nephilim. But no, no Nephilim. :hmph...
Nice little history of Charles Fort and Fortean Times that I had forgotten about in January's edition of Saucer Smear
I expect there must be old issues of "Doubt" still surviving. Anyone here care to own up? :)
I have always wondered about Seth (or Set). As far as I know, he is the only god who also appears to be a fantastic animal. Seemingly the ancient Egyptians were keen on fantastic animals as this link shows
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/beasts.htm
Fantastic animals were apparently...
There have been a few stories of people being seen in a field, falling over and vanishing before they hit the ground haven't there? Scarey.:eek:
They're meant to have been taken by the fairies I think.
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