Spike camellus
Dozens of new species are discovered every year.
It’s not every day that a new dinosaur is discovered, but it happens more often than you might think, especially with new technology.
In 2021 alone, scientists identified 42 previously unknown dinosaur species, and this number isn’t unusual.
Since 2003, an average of 45 dinosaurs have been discovered every year.
Writing for National Geographic, Michael Greshko described the current Era as a golden age of paleontology that’s Transforming Our understanding of the prehistoric World.
There are more scientists in more parts of the world working on the ground and behind the scenes to find and study fossils than there used to be, according to Tom Holtz, who maintains a database of new discoveries plus, who doesn’t love dinosaurs?
Experts are also discovering new species by taking a closer look at fossils in storage and narrowing down their definition of what separates one species from the next.
For example, a collection of fossils spanning tens of millions of years were once collectively labeled as the Iguanodon species, but scientists re-examine the evidence and noticed some differences they missed before.
The Iguanodon fossils have since been reclassified as several different species.
Arguably, one of the most interesting dinosaurs discovered this year is Spike Camellus Afer, an armored species that had large spikes protruding from Its Ribs.
It lived in Northern Morocco between 168 million and 164 million years ago and is the oldest known dinosaur of its type, called an ankylosaur.
These spiky armored dinosaurs are pretty cool with a large club tail that they would use to bash their enemies, even though it was an herbivore.
Even a T-Rex would be a fool to mess with this dinosaur.
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Perfectly preserved embryo
Perfectly preserved embryo.
At least 60 years ago in what is now the city of ganjo in southern China, a dinosaur egg was buried in a Mudslide.
The poor little baby dino inside didn’t stand a chance, but the rapid burial kept its remains away from scavengers.
Scientists Unearthed the fossilized embryo in 2000, but only recently took a closer look at it.
They are describing it as the best preserved dinosaur embryo ever found.
Nicknamed baby Ying Liang, the ancient reptile was curled into a tucking position.
This demonstrates a link between dinosaurs and modern Birds, who assume a similar posture shortly before hatching.
It also shows that some Modern bird behaviors evolved among the dinosaurs.
According to Dr Fion Weisom Ma, the embryo was a type of Toothless dinosaur called an oviraptorosaur, whose name translates to egg Thief lizard.
It was just about to hatch and had grown to about 10.6 inches long when it died.
Ovi wrapped lived throughout North America and Asia between 166 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period.
Researchers planned to use Advanced scanning techniques to create a full image of the baby dinosaur skeleton, which is still partially covered by Rock.
Unique tail shape
– unusual Tale.
Three years ago, paleontologists discovered the remains of a recently described dinosaur called Stagoras Ellen Gason at the seroquidocite in southern Chile.
The plant eating creature lived in the region between 75 and 71 million years ago, measuring nearly seven feet long and weighing around 330 pounds.
At first, the team thought it was an already known dinosaur species, but when they examined its tail they found that it was different from anything they’d ever seen before.
It was lined with bony plaques called osteoderms, giving it a large fern-like shape.
According to a new study, the fossil could represent an entire new lineage of armor dinosaurs that have never been seen before in the southern hemisphere, but are already known to exist in the northern hemisphere.
Team member Sergio Soto said that the researchers don’t know why the tail evolved like it did.
He further explained that armored dinosaurs had a tendency to independently evolve different defense mechanisms.
Located 1800 miles south of Santiago, serogido is a dinosaur fossil Hot Spot.
Paleontologists have found ample evidence that South America and Antarctica were very close to one another back when the prehistoric reptiles existed, including two dinosaurs closely related to stagoras.
What do you think of this unique tail shape?
New type of dinosaur
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Sea levels were much higher some 70 million years ago than they are today.
At the time, a duck-billed dinosaur called Parasaurus missouriensis lived along the eastern shore of the western Interior Seaway and Inland Sea that once divided what is now North America.
It was an enormous creature, growing up to 35 feet long by adulthood.
In recent years, a paleontologist named guy Darrow discovered the fossilized remains of a young P missouriansis dinosaur at a site in Missouri where he’s been working for 40 years.
It was rough, roughly the size of a Volkswagen and wasn’t done growing when its life was suddenly cut short.
Scientists recently identified the creature as both a new species and genus.
A wealth of fossils have been found along the former western shore of the Seaway, but the Missouri site represents one of the few known sites that was along the seaway’s Eastern Shore.
Pete Makovici, a curator of dinosaurs at Chicago’s Field Museum, described the site as one of the most unique he’s ever seen out of the many dinosaur fossil sites he’s explored throughout the world.
The location is being kept a secret for now, while researchers work to secure their findings, and this is probably not the last of the discoveries there.
Makovici said that he believes there are even more dinosaurs in the area waiting to be found.
Ancientraptor
Ancient Velociraptor relative.
Over 100 million years ago, during the early Cretaceous Period, a fierce bird-like dinosaur hunted on the Isle of Wight in what is now the English Channel, using its strength to overpower its prey and its huge talents to shred its next meal.
Then, using its finely serrated teeth, it bit into its victim’s flesh yikes.
The ancient creature was related to the Velociraptor, but was older and had a more robust build.
It was about the size of a wolf, measuring roughly 10 feet long from nose to tail.
Although it wasn’t the biggest predator in his habitat, it posed a formidable threat to small and young dinosaurs.
In 2004, erosion caused by storms and waves revealed a fossilized Dino on the beach.
Scientists recently identified it as a new species named vectoraptor Green eye.
It’s the first large Raptor ever found in England.
Vectoraptor and other Raptors were ancestors of modern Birds.
They were covered in Long feathers and were armed with sharp teeth and had large scythe-shaped claws.
These fearsome Predators often slashed their prey, causing them to bleed to death, and researchers suspect that they may have used their talons for climbing trees.
Because of its heavy build, vectoraptor probably relied much more on strength than speed to catch prey.
The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence that proves that dinosaurs were incredibly diverse, according to study leader Dr Nick Longrich.
Dr Longrich explains that even after More Than A Century of investigating the Isle of Wight and other parts of England, dinosaur discoveries are still frequently being made.
In some cases, he said, finding new fossils is simply a waiting game that requires scientists to remain on standby until Sea Cliffs break or waves wash the specimens out from the rocks.
When dinosaurs existed, the continents were closer to one another and some were even still connected by land bridges, enabling dinosaurs to wander all over the world.
The Isle of Wight and Europe in general seem to have served as a Crossroads for dinosaurs that were passing through on their way to or from North America and Asia.
They may have also swam to Europe from Africa.
What do you think about this new discovery?
Ichthyosaur
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During the dinosaur age, a group of ancient marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs lived throughout the world’s oceans.
A recent study found that they evolved to massive sizes over a two and a half million year span, at the very beginning of their 150 million year existence.
That’s an incredibly short amount of time, considering how it took modern whales roughly 90 percent of their 55 million year history to reach their enormous sizes that we see today.
Ichthyosaurs experienced this rapid growth period at a time when the world was recovering from the great dying, a mass extinction event that occurred at the end of the Permian period.
Researcher Lara Schmitz described it as a glimmer of hope and a sign of the resilience of life.
He went on to say that, if environmental conditions are right of, Evolution can happen very fast and life can bounce back.
The recent findings were based on a fossilized ichthyosaur found in the Augusta mountains of Northwestern Nevada.
The newly described species lived around 247 million years ago during the Triassic period.
Its skull was roughly six and a half feet long, indicating that its body was at least 55 feet long.
The strange sea creature probably weighed about 45 tons.
It had evolved to its gargantuan size within 5 million years of the Great dying.
Based on the shape and size of the animal’s teeth, experts believe it fed on fish, squid and smaller ichthyosaurs.
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park: a fossilized Footprints in what’s being described as the most spectacular dinosaur discovery ever made in Poland, scientists recently found hundreds of fossilized Footprints dating back to the Jurassic period.
Paleontologists made the incredible find in the country’s central eastern region while examining sheets of rock that were discarded by miners.
It’s the largest collection of footprints of its type ever found in Europe.
Researchers have found 60 blocks of rock containing the fossilized Prince of carnivores, avian dinosaurs and members of the Sauropodamore family, which includes the Brontosaurus.
They roamed the Earth around 199 million years ago, when the town was a coastal region.
Based on the size of the largest Footprints, which measure up to 15.7 inches long, some of the dinosaurs that made them were as much as 20 feet tall.
The prints are remarkably well preserved, leaving behind details of what the creature’s Claws and skin looked like.
Not many dinosaur discoveries are made in Poland, which was largely underwater during much of the ancient reptile’s existence, but scientists believe that there could be thousands of more fossils nearby
Ai waiting to be discovered.
They will continue to excavate over the next several months.
Italys first dinosaur herd
Italy’s first dinosaur herd.
Italy isn’t well known for its dinosaur discoveries.
In fact, until recently, only a handful of dinosaur specimens had been found throughout the country since the 1990s.
Earlier this month, scientists announced the discovery of an entire herd of dinosaurs near the northeastern Port City of Trieste.
A team found the 11 ancient reptiles at a former Limestone Quarry, which is proving to be a treasure Trove of dinosaur fossils.
The findings are helping to add context to a previous discovery of a dinosaur named Antonio, who researchers believe was a member of the herd.
When Antonio was found in 1996, scientists believed that he represented a dwarf species, but now that they have other specimens to compare him to, they think that he was a juvenile.
The biggest and oldest member of the group, named Bruno, represents the largest and most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Italy.
In addition to these doomed dinosaurs who roamed the Earth around 80 million years ago, the team discovered the fossilized remains of fish, crocodiles, small shrimp and flying reptiles who called the ancient Mediterranean their home.
Study leader Federico Fante told the guardian that at the time, the region was near the shoreline and the environment was warm, tropical and humid.
The recent discoveries are helping experts learn more about the habitat that the creatures lived and died.
Creatures survived mass extinction
In some creatures survived mass extinction.
Around 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, before the dinosaurs existed, a sudden rise in global temperatures triggered the largest ever mass extinction event in history, known as the Permian Triassic Extinction event, or the great dying.
It saw the eradication of 90 percent of the world’s aquatic species.
Meanwhile, 70 percent of the earth’s land animals were wiped out of existence.
The area around the equator, known as the equatorial belt, became incredibly hot and arid.
For a long time, scientists believed that any animals from this region who survived the great dying had no choice but to migrate elsewhere to avoid going extinct.
But they recently proved themselves wrong with the discovery of some Footprints belonging to a massive prehistoric reptile that lived in the Italian Alps.
A team of researchers found a collection of 10 prints at an altitude of over 7 200 feet.
They date back to around 250 million years ago, a time during which they thought the area had been rendered completely inhospitable.
Measuring roughly a foot long, the footprints belonged to a crocodile-like reptile that would have been at least 13 feet long.
The creature lived along the shoreline of an ancient river Delta that no longer exists today.
The fact that a massive reptile was in the area so soon after the great dying proves that some animals managed to survive in places that experts believed were unlivable.
It wouldn’t have been the only creature there either, according to paleontologist Massimo Bernardi, who said that it would have been impossible for the reptile to survive alone.
There would have been an entire ecosystem that had managed to carry on in some form after the mass extinction wiped out nearly all of Earth’s life forms.
Scientists have referenced the great dying as a cautionary tale about the current trajectory that our rapidly warming planetism on the climate is changing at its highest rate in tens of millions of years, and species are dying off in alarming numbers.
Some researchers believe that we are headed straight toward disaster and that if we don’t change course soon, it’ll be too late to avoid severe Devastation.
The bull geoglyph
The Bull- geoglyph.
Archaeologists with the Russian Academy of Sciences found a mysterious geoglyph in the Republic of Tuva.
The Republic of Tuva is near the Russian border with Mongolia.
The discovery was part of a burial from the Bronze Age, over 4 000 years ago.
It depicts a bull crafted by very carefully placed Stones.
Only part of it is still visible today, because road construction back in the 1940s erased its head and torso.
Archaeologists only found part of its backside, its hind legs and its tail.
The bull geoglyph was made by a Central Asian culture that lived in the area.
What’s really unique about it is that archaeologists usually find find petroglyphs, meaning pictures carved into rocks.
They almost never find geoglyphs depicting Bulls, the difference being that geoglyphs are made three-dimensionally from rocks.
We don’t know who made the picture of the bull, why it was so important to them, or what other kinds of ancient pieces of artwork they may have left behind, but this is a remarkable Discovery in and of itself.
It’s just a shame that the construction destroyed part of this window into history.
Folded iron sword.
Folded iron sword
Archaeologists in Greece have found an iron sword that is over 1600 years old.
The sword, crafted of iron and folded over itself, was likely used in a ritual killing before being dumped in the grave of a soldier with the Roman Imperial Army.
Researchers with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki were astonished by the discovery because the soldier was buried in a church, yet the sword was part of a pagan ritual.
Even more mysterious is the fact that the soldier was likely a mercenary who had embraced the Roman way of life, adopting the Christian religion yet never abandoning his Pagan Roots.
He was buried in an ancient Basilica which itself was built over an older site of worship.
The original Christian Church here was from the 4th Century, perhaps the oldest one in the entire Greek city.
By the 7th Century the church had suffered too much damage and was abandoned.
It was left to crumble into a ruin with seven Graves sealed inside, but all the other Graves were kind of boring compared to the Roman warrior with his folded straight sword.
Experts say these kinds of Swords were used by auxiliary Cavalry forces.
This suggests the dead man was probably an officer in the Roman army or a Roman mercenary.
But Romans didn’t practice folding swords before burying them with the dead.
This was a custom practice by the Celts, the ancient Greeks and the Vikings.
This fact has left archaeologists stumped because they have no idea where the soldier came from.
He was clearly part of the Roman army, yet his Customs came from very far away.
Egyptian gold jewelry
Egyptian gold jewelry.
On the European island of Cyprus, archaeologists found a mysterious stash of gold jewelry from the days of the Egyptian Pharaoh Nefertiti.
They found at least 500 rare objects as well as 150 human skeletons throughout two tombs from the Bronze Age.
This was in the ancient city of Hala Sultan teke with the dead and their artifacts dating back over 3 000 years.
There were few discoveries that made these tombs unusual.
For example, the skeletons were found in layers on top of one another, showing that several generations of people had been buried in the same tomb.
Because all of these Generations were buried equipped with gold jewelry, from necklaces to Tiaras, the excavators believed they were all part of the same Elite family.
They may even have had parties down here in the darkness of the tombs to honor their dead.
According to Professor Peter Fisher, his team team found a ceramic bowl that had once been filled with wine.
At one end was an opening to drink from, while the other end was for filling with liquid.
But the weird discoveries don’t stop here.
They found cuneiform inscriptions from Mesopotamia.
The inscriptions mentioned three different names: one A God Called Amuru and the other two were the names of Mesopotamian Kings.
Researchers still can’t figure out why artifacts from Mesopotamia nearly 1 000 miles away were buried in a tomb on the island of Cyprus.
What do you think?
Perhaps a political Alliance or marriage led to this cross-cultural burial, or something else?
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Stone balls
Stone balls: a collection of mysterious Stone balls was discovered on a very remote Scottish Island.
The balls were shaped nearly 6 000 years ago and may have been used as Weapons.
They were found inside an ancient tomb on the island of Sande, about as far north in Scotland as you can get.
And yet these aren’t the only ones.
Hundreds of similar Stone balls have been found in various Neolithic sites across the country.
Each one is roughly the size of a baseball.
They’ve even been discovered as far away as Ireland and Norway.
The oldest was found in 1860, carved ornately like a piece of art.
But not all of them are carved so nicely.
Some are studded, like mace heads, and others are polished, smooth, like cannonballs.
Nobody knows what these balls were used for.
Some archaeologists say they were weapons, others say they were for artistic purposes.
The weapon theory has the balls being wound with rope and then thrown at enemies, but the archaeologists who leaned the other way say the balls were used to signify somebody’s status in their Community.
Quite the difference.
The thing to remember is that making these balls would have been very difficult thousands of years ago.
They couldn’t stand smoothly using sandpaper.
They had to use actual sand and water to make a rock into a perfectly circular object.
Because of this.
They would have been rare things to have and require extensive labor and expertise to make.
This definitely lends some weight to the theory that they were symbols of wealth or status.
Fossils from a prehistoric rainforest
Fossils from a prehistoric rainforest in Southeastern Australia.
A man named Nigel Mcgrath was working in his Fields with his farm equipment when he noticed something strange.
The rocks that were always getting in the way of his equipment had preserved fossils visible on their exteriors.
He did a bit of poking around and realized there were fossils on all of the rocks in the area, as if someone had stamped dead insects onto them.
The farmer’s field, an area about the size of a football field, is now known to contain the most shocking record of life in an ancient rainforest.
It’s especially shocking because this part of Australia is about as far from being a rainforest as you can get.
Yet up until about 5 million years ago, Australia was an even more Lush rainforest than the Amazon on is today.
Paleontologists have found spiders fossilized so perfectly that they can literally see the impression of their leg hairs on the Rock.
Fossilized fish are still bloated with their bellies full of food, and leaves are preserved in such incredible detail that researchers can actually see the pores they used millions of years ago to absorb CO2.
But why are all these fossils so amazingly preserved?
They are arguably the best in the world.
Matthew Mccurry from the Australian Museum Research Institute believes it was a freak accident that caused all these Critters to be perfectly preserved.
Iron ions from nearby Basalt deposits dissolved into the water of a lake that once stood here.
Then a sudden supply of Highly oxygenated water entered the lake through a flood and mixed with the iron ions.
The iron dissolved rapidly and formed something called geophyte on the lake bed, which rapidly replaced the soft tissue of whatever animals had recently fall into the bottom of the lake.
Warriors personal tool kit
And this is probably why we now have an amazing snapshot of life in an Australian rainforest from millions of years ago.
Warriors personal tool kit.
3000 years ago there was an epic battle along the banks of the Talenze River in Germany.
At least 140 Fighters died here, and one of them dropped something very personal.
The fallen soldier dropped his tool kit, a small package which contained a soldier’s must-have tools, along with a handful of bronze pieces of scrap.
You might think archaeologists have found tons of evidence of prehistoric battles throughout Europe, but that’s not actually the case.
Europe and the Bronze Age was relatively peaceful, heavy on relatively- and most of what we know comes from written records or the ruins of settlements.
The bones and Scattered weapons of the 140 Fighters dead alongside the river are the only archaeological evidence we have of an actual battle fought in Prius or Europe.
That’s what makes this guy’s toolkit so fascinating and mysterious.
The thing is, Bronze Age Europeans Couldn’t Write.
There are no records to tell us who these people were fighting on the river.
We don’t know why they fought.
We don’t even know who won the battle.
The only Clues we have are in their bones and their personal belongings.
The ancient toolkit contained a bronze knife, a chisel, some small ingots and scraps.
What was all this stuff used for?
Probably for trade.
The individual probably kept all the scrap pieces of bronze you could find to either trade or recycle into other things.
And this was before Europeans used coins in Gods and chunks of scrap were the main currency.
What do you think a soldier could have purchased in exchange for a solid chunk of bronze 3000 years ago?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Medieval sister Monastery
Medieval sister and Monastery.
The furnace Abbey in Cumbria was founded in the 12th century as one of the richest monasteries and anywhere in England.
A team of researchers from Oxford archeology North recently excavated this medieval Abbey, only to discover the remains of an unidentified Abbot and his mysterious staff.
The Abbott was between 40 and 50 when he died and had been laid to rest in the holiest part of the church, the place which held the high altar.
He was discovered buried with the silver head of a ceremonial crook or a fancy staff.
It was the first of its kind to be found in England in over 50 years, suggesting the Abbott was someone of great importance and status.
And yet nobody can figure out his identity.
This staff is honestly quite incredible.
Its head is decorated with discs that show the angel, Saint Michael, fighting a dragon, the foot of the staff is iron and its pull is painted wood.
The unknown Abbott would have looked quite impressive, like a figure from a fantasy novel, almost while holding a staff.
Petra Idols
This unusual and ornate Petra’s Idols enjoy Jordan’s Ancient City of Petra.
Archaeologists have stumbled upon a unique set of stone Idols.
For those who don’t know, Petra was once the very heart of the Middle East.
It was a hub for politics, culture and commerce.
It began as a humble Trading Post for the Nabitaians.
These people became Rich beyond their wildest dreams, but the neighboring states became jealous and invaded.
The Nabataeans were finally wiped out by the Romans in 106 AD and Petro was left in ruins.
The newly found Stone Idols are fascinating because they give a glimpse into the lives of the Nabataeans.
Archaeologists believe the idols depict deities worshiped by the desert dwellers many years before mainstream religions emerged.
But what’s truly fascinating is that the deities are all female.
There’s the goddess a lot, the goddess Al-Uza and the goddess of Fate, Manat.
These goddesses were worshiped at Great shrines and temples in Petra, but sadly very little of their history remains today.
Between the Romans destroying the city, an earthquake decimating it after that, and centuries of looters, it’s a miracle these three Idols survived.
And while we know the Nabatayans worshiped a Pantheon of female goddesses, we don’t know what significance each one had.
Siberian Valley of the Kings
Siberian Valley of the Kings.
New discoveries in the Siberian Valley of the Kings have left archaeologists stunned.
Excavations by a team of Polish and Russian researchers have uncovered more evidence of the scythian civilization that lived in the Eurasian steps in southern Russia, beginning in the 9th century Bc.
The team found two previously unseen burial mounds inside an ancient necropolis.
The first mound contained the body of a woman in her 50s and the skeleton of a child.
They were buried with a handful of interesting objects, from gold ornaments to iron knives, Moon shaped jewelry to fragments of Arrow shafts.
It’s a fascinating mystery, because the city didn’t leave a whole lot behind.
There is not much that scientists have discovered to explain their belief system, their cultural values or even their rise and fall.
All we have to go on are tombs found in the Russian Wasteland.
The tombs are always packed to the brim with treasures, and often weapons too.
Plus, many tombs contain the bodies of female warriors.
This has led archaeologists believe that the Scythians were Rich.
They were nomadic and had no cities, and both men and women were Fierce Warriors.
Ancient Beerbong
Ancient Beerbong.
In 1897, archaeologist Nikolai Vasilovsky discovered a strange pair of objects while Excavating a burial mound in the Northwestern Caucasus.
The mound dated back about 5 500 years.
The strange objects appeared to be tubes made from gold and silver and decorated with bulls and other powerful animals.
Nikolai believes these artifacts were parts of ancient scepters, something that designated a high social status.
100 years later, archaeologists proved Nikolai wrong.
Instead, these tubes have turned out to be ancient beer bongs.
That’s right.
To reach this conclusion, archaeologists with the Russian Academy of Sciences had to revisit the burial mound and do more research.
The mound was divided into three main compartments.
Each compartment contained the body of an adult tucked in the fetal position.
In the center of the chamber was an area that appeared to have been used for some kind of ritualistic ceremony.
Moving back to the tubes, researchers took a look inside and found barley starch residue.
Clearly, these were actual metal tubes used for drinking beer, not part of ancient scepters.
Putting all the pieces together now, researchers figured out there was some kind of beer drinking ceremony going on in the chamber.
Underwater Winery
These tubes were used, similar to Modern beer bongs, as a way to drink booze as quickly as possible underwater Winery.
In mid-2021, a group of researchers found an ancient Roman ship wrecked off the island of Usika, which is located north of Sicily.
It rests at a depth of around 230 feet.
Using a submarine robot, the team noticed that the ship was carrying a huge number of large jars.
The Romans used to transport wine and other Goods, known as emplore.
Just weeks after, scientists announced the discovery of another ancient Roman ship off the coast of Palermo, Sicily, dating back to the 2nd Century Bc.
The Vessel suits over 300 feet beneath the waves and it was also carrying many, many vessels of wine, and these are just two of many Roman shipwrecks that have been found.
Based on this incredible history, a company has decided to install an underwater Winery inside a wrecked ship in the Adriatic Sea, because- why not?
If you love wine and you love history, then this is the place for you.
This incredible Winery was made near the town of drace, Croatia, about one hour from the famous ancient city of Dubrovnik.
The edible Vena Winery, as it’s been named, was created with adventurous scuba divers in mind.
It’s the only Winery in the world where you have to pick out your own submerged jug while breathing underwater, though of course, there is also a winery on flat ground for those who don’t want to go through the trouble of putting on a scuba suit.
The winery is complete with underwater Cellars, wines stored in bottles and housed in a sunken fishing boat that’s been sitting at the bottom of the bay for over 30 years.
5 000 bottles of wine annually are aged above the ground for three months before being put under the waves in the special Ampore.
What’s really cool about this is that the vessels they use are imitating the traditional clay jugs used by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
People don’t really use them anymore, but the underwater Winery in Croatia is bringing them back.
In case you were wondering how they keep underwater jugs of wine safe, they use padlocked cages.
If you were thinking of sneaking into the bay and getting yourself some free wine, you’re going to need to learn how to pick locks while scuba diving like an aquatic Macgyver.
Are you down to check this place out?
Japanese F-35 fighter jet.
Japanese F35 Fighter Jet
The day after it disappeared from radar over the Pacific Ocean, the wreckage of a Japanese F-35 fighter jet was found at sea, or at least parts of the plane were found at Sea.
The rest was at the bottom of the ocean.
Nobody knows for sure why the plane lost contact and crashed.
Following the incident, the remainder of the Japanese stealth Fighters were grounded pending investigation and, to make things truly tragic, the man who was piloting the stealth fighter is still missing.
Seeing as this happened just recently, in 2019, he may never be found.
The trouble started around seven o’clock at night on a Tuesday.
The fighter jet was flying 84 miles east of Misawa in Japan.
30 minutes after taking off, it lost all contact with the Misawa Air Base.
The Missing pilot sent a signal to abort the mission, but nobody knows why or what happened.
The only confirmation of a crash came from a few pieces of the Fighter’s tail fin fished out of the water.
The 40-something-year-old pilot is Mia and the aircraft itself is in pieces at the bottom of the sea.
Lost Kurges Civilization
It was the second time in the history of the F-35 that one of them crashed Lost
Kurges Civilization.
In the country of Kurdistan, an international team of archaeologists discovered the existence of an advanced civilization at the bottom of a lake.
These archaeologists went on an expedition to Lake isuk cool, located high up in the kurges mountains.
The mysterious civilization lived here around 2500 years ago and, according to the team’s findings, their civilization was just as advanced as those in what is today Greece and even the prospering societies along the Mediterranean Coast.
Here’s what they found: beneath the lake, the archaeologists uncovered the remains of a major settlement buried under the water.
They found artifacts, crumbling City walls, burial mounds from the ancient scythians that have been eroded by centuries of waves, arrowheads, daggers, gold bars and even bronze battle axes.
Judging by the formidable outer walls, some of them still stretching for over 1500 feet, this was an enormous City for its time and, judging by the sheer number of artifacts and weaponry, it was one that could easily defend itself.
The reason it ended up submerged has to do with the lake itself.
Scientists know that the lake regularly shifts its water level.
Sometimes it’s full, sometimes there’s not a drop of water in it, but these changes are gradual, happening over a span of several hundred years.
What this means is that 25 centuries ago, the lake was dry.
An unknown civilization moved in, built an amazing City and then came the water.
They were forced to abandon the city as their houses flooded and they were driven out by the mighty force of Mother Nature herself.
Ghost Town of Villarino Daforna
The ghost town of Villarino Daforna.
Villarino Dafurna is a ghost town in Portugal, completely submerged underwater.
It was once one of the most Charming Villages found at the Garrus National Park, but in 1967 the construction of a dam caused the entire area to flood so that hydroelectricity could be brought to the region.
There were some protests, but it didn’t do the townsfolk much good.
The Portuguese electric company finally forced residents out of their homes just before the completion of the dam that submerged their small village.
Within just one short Year, all residents were gone and over 2 000 years of history and culture were lost.
Today, the Forgotten Ghost Town reappears from the water on the hottest summer days, when levels in the reservoir drop sufficiently, these shattered walls and crumbling door frames of what was once a quaint Village reveal themselves.
It’s only happened a handful of times in the last 40 years.
Lost Egyptian Shipwrecks
In recent days, the history of Villarino Daforna has been safeguarded in a nearby museum, a museum dedicated to what the locals refer to as the Portuguese Atlantis Lost Egyptian shipwrecks in Egypt.
Three Roman era shipwrecks have been discovered off the coast of the city of Alexandria.
According to the Egyptian Antiquities Authority.
Divers also discovered a crystal carving of some unidentified Roman’s head, some gold coins from the days of the Emperor Augustus and an idol dedicated to the God Osiris.
For those who don’t know, the waters near Alexandria are bursting with Sunken Treasures from the ancient world.
Neighborhoods and entire cities were submerged because of rising sea levels and earthquakes thousands of years ago, leaving much to be discovered in modern times.
In fact, before the city of Alexandria even existed, there was a port city named heraklion, which is currently under several feet of water.
Expeditions have found shrines to Egyptian gods here, statues of pharaohs nearly 20 feet tall and even animal imprints fossilized in the soil on the seabed.
This place is a gold mine of ancient Egyptian treasure.
As for the shipwrecks, it’s impossible to say too much about them.
There wasn’t actually much left, with divers only discovering a handful of wooden planks and pieces of pottery to suggest they had even been there at all.
The experts believe there were at least three ships in this one spot, but it could have been four.
In all likelihood, they were transporting goods between Egypt and some other place in the Mediterranean when they were struck by a tidal wave or other natural disaster.
Underwater Plane
Underwater plane there is a mystery surrounding an underwater plane that’s been spotted off the coast of Scotland thanks to Google Maps.
According to a report in the Scotsman, experts are scratching their heads over the image of a very clear airplane sitting at the bottom of the sea less than a mile from Edinburgh.
The discovery was made by a man named Robert Morton, who was so excited by what he found that he reached out to some local professionals.
He wasn’t even looking for anything when he made the discovery.
He was simply browsing on Google Earth when his eagle eyes spotted the shape of the aircraft and he zoomed in to investigate.
What the satellite imagery suggests is that an aircraft crashed after leaving Edinburgh.
The problem is that there are no records of this ever happening.
It could be a Google glitch, a ghostly airplane that never actually existed, or there really could be a mysterious plane sitting just off the coast that no one has ever heard of before.
So far, nobody has been able to explain the mystery or identify the Lost via vehicle- if indeed it is a lost vehicle at all and not a flaw in The Matrix: the ruins of an ancient warship.
Inside the ruins of an ancient warship, submerged off the coast of Sicily, scientists have found over 100 animal species.
These animals are living inside the 2 000 year old wreckage as if it’s their own party boat.
These remains are of a ship that sank during a dramatic battle between the Romans and the Carthaginians.
The best guess historians have is that it sank on March 10 241 Bc.
This was the day of an epic sea Battle near the Aegean Islands.
A fleet of ships from the Roman Republic faced off against an equally impressive Fleet from Carthage, but Rome got the upper hand and completely wiped out their enemy, putting an end to the first Punic War.
And while you might expect the wreckage of a boat with such a violent history to be creepy and lifeless, it’s not really.
Italian researchers found approximately 114 Marine animal species existing together in harmony inside the remains of the ship.
These life forms include different kinds of snails, slugs, worms and mollusks and, of course, all the different species of fish that occasionally pass through the boat.
It’s an underwater Sanctuary the likes of which you would expect to see in The Little Mermaid only.
This Sanctuary is 300 feet deep, in the middle of the long stretch of water separating Europe and North Africa.
Flight Mh370
Flight MH370
A man on the internet believes that he has discovered the truth behind what happened with flight Mh370, or Malaysia Airlines flight Mh370, and while that’s a pretty crackpot thing to say, this guy has actually been investigating the incident for seven years.
He has devoted a large chunk of his time to cracking the case.
He believes that the airplane is currently sitting 12 000 feet below the surface of the water in the Indian Ocean, over one thousand miles from Australia.
The flight departed from Kuala Lumpur on its way to Beijing.
When it vanished, seemingly Into Thin Air, it was carrying 239 people.
Despite extensive search efforts and years of speculation, its Fate has remained a mystery.
But Richard Godfrey, a British aerospace engineer, says he’s found the crash site.
He used revolutionary tracking technology, a system called weak signal propagation, to pinpoint the plane’s location in the Indian Ocean.
He recently told reporter that he’s positive it’s at this exact location.
Sadly, there is really no way to find the airplane unless somebody uses a remotely operated vehicle to dive into the darkness.
And if Godfrey’s new tracking methods proved wrong, somebody would be out a whole lot of money.
So while the plane could be down there right now, it’s too big of a risk for anyone to take on.
Lost Canadian villages
Lost Canadian Villages.
There are nine lost Canadian Villages that were destroyed during construction of the Saint Laurent Seaway in the 1950s.
All nine of the communities were located along the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
The communities were incredibly old, going all the way back to 1784 following the American war of independence.
Even in the 1950s, these remote settlements were primarily populated by the descendants of disbanded soldiers from the king’s Royal Regiment of New York.
In fact, it was Captain Jeremiah French who received one of the very first and grants from King George Iii, a piece of land that would turn into the town of Maple Grove.
In other words, this settlement had a deep and Rich history, at least until the Seaway project.
It’s a story we’ve all heard before.
The project would create a huge artificial Lake to be used for hydroelectric power, but the creation of the lake would mean relocating old highways and Rail lines, as well as 6 500 people.
The nine lost Canadian Villages were entirely wiped out by the water, flooded and every last resident forced to move away.
Nobody has seen these Villages since July 1st 1958.
They are still hiding beneath the water just waiting to be explored and as a final slap in the face for residents who got booted out of their houses, the Seaway project never saw the return it was hoping for.
One of the nearby villages in the 1950s boasted 1036 residents.
The project was supposed to cause a huge, huge population boom with an increase in the economy to match, but as of 2011, the population had only grown by just 103.
People wonder how it’s doing now.
Rare WWII submarine
Rare World War Ii submarine.
Greek divers have discovered a very rare submarine from World War Ii that sank after being torpedoed by the Royal Navy.
The submarine is an Italian one, destroyed roughly 80 years ago by the Allied Forces in the Aegean Sea in the midst of World War Ii.
The submarine, called the gentina, had just left the Greek island of Leros with 48 Sailors when the British made their move.
On July 5th 1941, the British submarine Hms torbei hit the other submarine with a barrage of torpedoes, sending it to the murky depths below.
Now, for the first time, a human has seen the wreckage with their own eyes.
Famous Greek diver, Costa sochtardis, used an Rov or a remote operating vehicle to see the thing for himself, diving down to a depth of about 300 feet below sea level.
He didn’t dive all the way down on his own, but used a special piece of technology called super Achilles to inspect the wreckage.
And, believe it or not, it was the fourth Submarine located and properly identified by Costas.
He’s a certifiable submarine Hunter.
According to him, it’s all because of his love for maritime history.
He’s even written six books, one of them called shipwrecks on the Greek seabed.
That goes into detail on 20 of the most famous shipwrecks ever discovered off the coast of Greece.
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