The Habsburgs (sometimes spelled Hapsburg) were a dynasty of Europeans from the same family who ruled over Austria, Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, and eventually countries across the continent for two centuries in the M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/Inbreeding-and-the-Habsburg-Jaw/Passover is a Jewish religious observance to commemorate the Hebrews' exodus from Egypt. The name comes from the night the angel of death passed over their homes when killing the Egyptian's firstborn children. The tradit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/What-the-Soviets-Did-to-Passover/Francis Zuber was skiing through the trees at Mt. Baker in Washington state when he ran over an inverted snowboard. The board belonged to Ian Steger, who was still attached to it, but buried upside down in a tree well. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/Suddenly-a-Buried-Snowboarder/<p>Paleontologist Michael D'Emic found something interesting when he cut the bones of the Majungasaurus. He found that the dinosaur that measured up to 7 meters high grew "really, really slowly."...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/Massive-Dinosaurs-Grew-Their-Sizes-In-Two-Different-Ways/<p>There had been previous attempts to extract genetic material from Beethoven's skull fragments in the past but to no avail. But thanks to modern advancements in DNA sequencing, we now have a better unders...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/Beethoven-Probably-Died-From-Liver-Disease-According-To-This-Recent-DNA-Study/Some people really enjoy conversations with their barbers. The rest of us would like to just get a haircut and move on to the next task of the day.A chatty barber who doesn't pick up on social cues is annoying and Beyond...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/Barbershop-Offers-Silent-Mode-in-Which-the-Barber-Doesnt-Try-to-Talk-to-You/<p>Animals are individuals. And because they are individuals, they also have personalities distinct from one another. Some animals are reckless, and others are shy.</p><p>Similar to how our pers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/A-Less-Biased-Approach-to-Animal-Behavioral-Studies-Might-Be-Key-To-More-Insightful-Findings/When I try to start conversations with strangers, one of my go-to questions is "What's the most surprising thing you've ever encountered in a colonoscopy?"It doesn't have to be the person's own colonoscopy--just one that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/Colonoscopy-Reveals-a-Ladybug/How do we know how hot our Sun is? How do we know the internal structure of stars and the type of fusion processes occurring inside them, despite not taking a single step into them? Believe it or not, the answer is seism...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/How-Seismology-Helped-Us-See-Inside-Stars/<p>In early September 2022, curious fishermen took a video of two megamouth sharks swimming together off the coast of San Diego. Little did they know that they were very fortunate to spot the shark species...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/31/This-Video-of-Two-Megamouth-Sharks-Are-Our-Only-Evidence-of-The-Species-Social-Lives/
