Indian cobras are "large highly venomous snakes," one of the "'big four' species that inflict the most snakebites on humans in India." Native to southeast Asia, they are "can be found throughout India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and southern Nepal," often near water. But Missouri? Not so much.
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The hot evolutionary question at the moment is, "why do so many creatures evolve into crabs?" It's a query that suggests many more questions: What do you mean, so many creatures? Do different animals evolve into the same thing? Could it happen again? What is so special about crabs?
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The crazy real-life story of Satanic Panic includes quack doctors and criminal investigations.
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In 1941, about two weeks prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, an advertisement in The New Yorker seemed to predict the attack.
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We know what you're thinking. Ireland is just about as far from Australia as you can get, both in terms of distance and climate — how could wallabies possibly be living there? Well, as you can guess, they didn't get there naturally.
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Before it was cut, the Tereshchenko diamond was allegedly the largest blue diamond in the world. It was initially named after Mikhail Tershchenko.
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Taking part in the liberation of World War II's concentration camps was an unimaginable horror that most Allied troops did not expect. It's estimated that up to 20 million people died in concentration camps. A small percentage survived to be liberated by Allied troops during World War II.
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The hardships of the Oregon Trail claimed the lives of several people who set foot on it. The two primary causes of death were accidents and disease.
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Many historical figures we know throughout American and world history were actually related. Learn the stories behind historical figures like Winston Churchill that connect him to Barack Obama or how Tom Hanks is actually related to Abe Lincoln.
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In 1666, when the Great Fire of London swept through the city streets, it destroyed a massive part of the medieval structures. To finally explain the Great Fire of London, learn exactly how it was started, what was destroyed, and why a French watchmaker was blamed for starting the fire.
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Humor is a distinctly human trait. While different cultures and generational groups might disagree on what we find most funny, the tendency to laugh at jokes unites all of humanity. And humor is by no means a modern invention; humans have probably been telling jokes since we first started talking.
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Society is indeed full of heroic figures like these. But when it comes to the total number of lives saved, there is one man who has all these others beat. That man is the American agricultural expert Norman Borlaug, who may have prevented over a billion deaths.
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His mom has Canadian citizenship, which he therefore shares, so it was simply a good choice for him when thinking of the future. Canada was a gateway to Silicon Valley, full of "all the cool stuff." Musk did exactly that: He leveraged his education in Canada to move to the US and build a startup.
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Francis Scott Key was so inspired by his experience during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 that he wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner." Yet, the path taken by Key's words and the flag that inspired them has been long and unexpected. This is the history of The Star-Spangled Banner explained.
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It seems like a band's bassist usually gets the short end of the fame stick. Queen's bassist, John Deacon, is no exception to that rule. A large part of that probably has to do with Deacon dropping out of the musical spotlight following Freddie Mercury's tragic death in 1991.
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Fake news as a term soared during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The phrase was used so often that the Collins Dictionary dubbed it the word of the year in 2017. While "fake news" means different things to various people, its basic definition is news that is fabricated.
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History's Vikings is a lot of dramatic fun, but the show is historically accurate in some ways. Here are some things Vikings gets right about history.
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Artsakh, a region situated in current Azerbaijan, has repeatedly declared its independence, and the people of Artsakh have been denied time and time again.
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Lovecraft Country doesn't hesitate to drop historical references, and it gets quite a few things right about the history it's referencing.
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Generally, Vikings could be very terrible.One of those terrible elements of Viking culture is the possible invention of criminal profiling. You know, the kind that predicts if people will be criminals based on how they look. The thing that some authorities still use even though it's unfair.
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At the start of the Industrial Revolution, child labor abuses and injustices came into question as the textile, coal, and chimney industries used kids.
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Some D-Day participants have spoken about what it was like, because remembering is important. Here's what it was like taking part in D-Day.
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There are many aspects of Don King apart from his charming, camera-hungry side that most of us are far less familiar with. Like, for example, the fact that Don King sued sports channel ESPN for defamation in 2005.
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Out of the entirety of the collective Star Wars cast, though, two actors haven't fared as well, both Vader-related.
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There was a time when kids were allowed to go out and explore their neighborhoods, but several high-profile disappearances in the 1980s caused some big changes.
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In National Treasure, Nicolas Cage is looking for a treasure. But is truth stranger than fiction? Here's what National Treasure gets right about history.
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Polio is thought to have been around for thousands of years, but it didn't reach pandemic levels until the 20th century. This is the messed up history of polio.
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