When Summer Never Came: The Global Chill After Mount Tambora’s Cataclysm
— April 28, 2026In 1816, much of the world experienced a year so strange and unsettling that…
The wheel bug behaves a bit like a spider, but is actually one of the largest insects in North America. It captures other insects and uses it’s beak to inject them with a solution that dissolves their innards. People that have been bitten by the wheel big do not normally die, but do describe the bite as extremely painful and slow to heal, sometimes taking weeks.
In 1816, much of the world experienced a year so strange and unsettling that…
On a chilly November morning in 1970, a 45-foot, eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore…
In the rolling hills of Bath County, Kentucky, an ordinary spring day in 1876…
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