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Extreme heat of Vesuvius eruption vaporized body fluids, exploded skulls
Enlarge / Italian scientists detected red and black mineral incrustations in victims’ skulls—the iron from human blood. (credit: P. Petrone et al.) The catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD wiped out several nearby towns and killed thousands of people. It has long been supposed that the vast majority died from asphyxiation, choking on […]
‘The Boys’ Will Bash in Some Superhero Skulls on Amazon; Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Still on Board
After years of jumping between the big and the small screens, and of being bounced from network to network like a troubled child in an ’80s movie, The Boys has found a new home. The television adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson‘s anti-superhero comic is now being developed at Amazon, where it could receive a […]
Ancient fish skulls shake up the vertebrate evolutionary tree
Enlarge / The skull of a 250 million year old fossil fish and a virtual model of its internal skeleton, along with a life reconstruction. (credit: Andrey Atuchin) Around 400 million years ago, the world was warm. Animals were beginning to emerge from the oceans, and plants began to spread across the Earth. The northern […]
Archaeologists uncover Tenochtitlan’s legendary tower of skulls
Henry Romero/Reuters An ongoing excavation in the heart of Mexico City, once the great Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, has revealed a legendary tower inlaid with hundreds of skulls. This tower was first described by Europeans in the early 16th century, when a Spanish soldier named Andres de Tapia came to the city with Hernan Cortez’ invading […]
Age of the Aztecs: Ancient tower of skulls found beneath Mexico City (PHOTOS)
Published time: 2 Jul, 2017 10:25 An ancient tower of human skulls has been unearthed beneath Mexico City – a discovery that researchers say raises fresh questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec empire. Archaeologists unearthed the 676 skulls embedded in a tower near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the […]
Avengers SHOCK: Did Samuel L Jackson just confirm The Red Skull’s return?
Fans of the Marvel movies will remember Hugo Weaving’s portrayal of The Red Skull in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger. As the head of Hydra he planned world domination by harnessing the power of the Infinity Stone known as the Tesseract. However the German super-villain handles the powerful object, only for him to be […]
‘President Supervillain’ Puts Trump’s Quotes in Red Skull’s Mouth, and It’s Disturbingly Perfect
He’s barely been in office for a month, but already Donald Trump has given the world a fearsome amount of wild, delirious quotes. They’re sentences that not even the best satirical writer could come up with—and weirdly enough, they make for uncomfortably believable quotes for Marvel’s premiere fascist supervillain. Brillian parody Twitter account/depressing vision of […]
