When scientists first discovered these remains of a teenage girl in 2010, they knew that the history of early humans was about to be rewritten. Now we know what the face of a Denisovan actually looked like.Maayan HarelAn artist’s rendering of the reconstructed face of a Denisovan girl. It’s incredible what just a little bit of DNA can do. Scientists have successfully reconstructed, for the first time, what one of our archaic human ancestors may have looked like — using only fragments taken from a pinky bone.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Scientists have long known that dolphins are very intelligent creatures, and now — for the first time ever — researchers have recorded the underwater mammals having a conversation. Thanks to the development of an underwater microphone, researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve in Feodosia, Russia recorded two Black Sea Bottlenose dolphins talking to each other in a pool, The Telegraph reported. In the study, which was published in the journal Mathematics and Physics, researchers observed that each dolphin would listen to the other speak a “sentence” without interruption, and then reply.

Measuring nearly 14 inches long, the footprints of Fujianipus yingliangi are the largest of their kind — and likely belonged to one of the biggest raptors to ever walk the Earth.Lida Xing et al.An artist’s depiction of Fujianipus yingliangi, likely one of the largest raptors to ever live. Velociraptors rank among the most recognizable of all dinosaurs, and the most feared. Most of them, however, only grew to roughly the size of a turkey or a medium-sized dog.

As Indian lawyer and activist Mahatma Gandhi typically wore nothing but loincloth and glasses, finding a pair of his spectacles dangling out of a mailbox is a historic incident in and of itself.East Bristol AuctionsThe gold-plated, circular rimmed glasses are headed to auction on Aug. 21, 2020. A pair of glasses formerly owned by Indian lawyer and anti-colonial nationalist Mahatma Gandhi is headed to auction for over $19,600. According to the BBC, the historic item spent an entire weekend precariously sticking out of an auction house mailbox.

History’s Worst Execution Methods: The Roman Candle Wikimedia Commons Many of the very worst execution methods ever devised involve fire — from burning witches at the stake in medieval Britain to roasting criminals alive in the searing metal insides of the brazen bull in Ancient Greece — but few match the sheer lack of humanity as the Roman Candle. Image Source: RealChurchHistory A rumored favorite of the mad Roman Emperor Nero, this method saw the subject tied to a stake and smeared with flammable pitch (tree or plant resin), then set ablaze, slowly burning to death from the feet up.

After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938, William Hitler became an American citizen, changed his name to William Stuart-Houston, and joined the U.S. Navy, where he was awarded a Purple Heart during World War 2.“We had cakes and whipped cream, Hitler’s favorite dessert. I was struck by his intensity, his feminine gestures. There was dandruff on his coat.” That comes from an article titled, “Why I hate my uncle…” The author? William Patrick Hitler, the nephew of Adolf Hitler.

Source: Atlantic Eye Institute Have you ever really thought about how weird it is that we all see and experience color differently? It’s true for everyone, not even those who are color-blind. To a certain extent, the subtleties of seeing our surroundings in living color vary among all of us. That’s one of the major reasons that, when this image of a dress went viral on the internet this week, no one could agree on whether it was black/blue or white/gold.

After he was seen being blown away by gale-force winds in Mount Everest's "Death Zone," Beck Weathers' wife was notified that her husband was dead. What happened next was nothing short of a miracle.On May 11, 1996, Beck Weathers died on Mount Everest. At least, that’s what other climbers told his wife. The truth was even more incredible. Weathers set out to conquer Earth’s highest summit alongside a team of eight other climbers.

If the prehistoric mastodon fossil hadn't been found when it was, it might have dried out and crumbled.A teenager went looking for arrowheads on a friend’s farm in Iowa. Instead, he found the bones of a 34,000-year-old mastodon — an elephant cousin that went extinct 10,000 years ago. According to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, the jaw bone, which measures 30 inches long, belonged to a juvenile mastodon — an elephant-like animal believed to have roamed Iowa tens of thousands of years ago.

The Eugene Police Department used genetic genealogy technology to identify an Oregon serial killer — nearly four decades after his murders.Salt Lake CountyJohn Charles Bolsinger murdered at least four women in total before taking his own life. In the late 1980s, a string of seemingly connected murders left police in Eugene, Oregon baffled. While it was clear the victims were female and had been sexually assaulted before dying of “brutal homicidal violence,” their killer was never found — until now.