Helicoprion
The helicoprion is an extinct, shark-like fish. The only fossils known are the teeth, which were arranged in a fantastic "tooth-whorl" strongly reminiscent of a circular saw.
The helicoprion is an extinct, shark-like fish. The only fossils known are the teeth, which were arranged in a fantastic "tooth-whorl" strongly reminiscent of a circular saw.
The spotted handfish is unusual in that it has highly adapted pectoral fins, which appear like hands (hence the name) and allow it to walk on the sea floor.
Danxia landform is formed from red-coloured sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age.
Peach stone carving has a long history in China and is first recorded in the middle of the Song dynasty.
Oh! Mikey, is a series of Japanese comedy sketches created by Yoshimasa Ishibashi featuring a family of Americans ("The Fuccons") living in metropolitan Japan. The series is notable in that all of the characters are played by mannequins with perpetually frozen facial expressions.
For a period of thirty years, Sanctorius weighed himself, everything he ate and drank, as well as his urine and feces. He compared the weight of what he had eaten to that of his waste products, the latter being considerably smaller. He produced his theory of insensible perspiration as an attempt to account for this difference. His findings had little scientific value, but he is still celebrated for his empirical methodology.
Praise-God Barebone (said to have been christened Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone) was an English leather-seller, preacher and Fifth Monarchist.
Heinrich C. Berann, the father of the modern panorama map, was born into a family of painters and sculptors in Innsbruck, Austria.
Le Mans is a 1971 film depicting a fictional 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race starring Steve McQueen.
Antaeus was a literary quarterly founded by Daniel Halpern and Paul Bowles.