Unusual ancient elephant tracks had our team of fossil experts stumped – how we solved the mystery: Elephants communicate underground by generating seismic waves. Anadolu Agency Over the past 15 years, through our scientific study of tracks and traces, we have identified more than 350 fossil vertebrate tracksites from South Africa’s Cape south coast. Most …
How Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine: Elizabeth Bennet and George Wickham talk over dessert in Pride and Prejudice. British Library Jane Austen’s works are globally renowned, but they were unknown in China until 1935 when two different translations of Pride and Prejudice were published. Today, her …
Weird ‘ripple’ has everyone stumped: Seismic sensors first picked up the event originating near an island between Madagascar and Africa. Then, alarm bells started ringing as far away as Chile, New Zealand and Canada. : Weird News Why OU-Texas for the Big 12 title will be as weird as it is intense: When Oklahoma and …