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Researchers Identify World's Largest Scorpion That Roamed Earth 415 Million Years Ago
Researchers Identify World's Largest Scorpion That Roamed Earth 415 Million Years Ago
Authored by Maria Mocerino via Interesting Engineering,
The University of Manchester has discovered that the world's largest scorpion, which lived 415 million years ago, was hiding in the museum's collection for 150 years.
Since the 1870s, researchers have debated the identity of the strange fossil remains lurking in the Manchester archives. They possessed tiny fragments recovered from sites in England and Wales that puzzled them, but they could not piece them together. Was it a large woodlouse-crustacean?
Life reconstruction of Praearcturus...
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May 12, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Welcome To The World's Largest Aircraft 'Boneyard': Where B-52s & F-16s Are Laid To Rest
Welcome To The World's Largest Aircraft 'Boneyard': Where B-52s & F-16s Are Laid To Rest
Authored by Allen Stein via The Epoch Times,
They are the dinosaurs of the modern age—hulking retired aircraft baking in the Arizona sun, stretching in rows across the desert.
Once America’s defenders of the sky—B-52 Stratofortress and B-1B Lancer bombers, F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters, C-130 Hercules and C-5 Galaxy cargo planes—they now sit idle, preserved for parts or history.
Maintaining and reclaiming these aircraft is no small task at the nation’s only military aircraft “boneyard.”
At Davis–Monthan Air Force...
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May 25, 2026 / Jason Ditz
Israeli Ministers Demand End to Lebanon ‘Ceasefire,’ Dramatic Escalation of War
The ceasefire in southern Lebanon has done very little to actually stop the fighting in the area, with Israeli forces killing hundreds of civilians in the ongoing offensives since the deal went into effect. Even this dubious ceasefire is proving increasingly controversial within the Israeli cabinet, however, with multiple ministers demanding it be formally disavowed […]
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Apr 21, 2026 / Tyler Durden
How The Iranian Regime Destroyed Its Economy... Long Before The War
How The Iranian Regime Destroyed Its Economy... Long Before The War
Authored by Daniel Lacalle,
As negotiations edge towards a ceasefire, Tehran is trying to blame the country’s economic collapse on the war and foreign pressure.
Yet the data tell a different story: Iran’s economy was already structurally broken before the war.
Years of ideological policymaking, institutionalised corruption, and the militarisation of the economy have caused Iran’s economic ruin.
Iran has been in a state of permanent economic emergency since at least 2018. Official inflation has remained above 40% year after year, destroying the country’s middle...
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