The following photographs were taken in 1946; they document the lives of the dolphin hunters of Krasnodar, Russia. They make uncomfortable viewing for our modern sensibilities, but they’re striking nonetheless. After WWII there was widespread food...
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I have written before about the great truth seekers. Those people who defy the seemingly ingrained human convention of accepting what you have been taught by the prevailing culture of the day without...
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As most people with even a passing interest in cryptozoology will know, the Loch Ness monster is believed by some to be an extant dinosaur. A plesiosaur to be precise. The idea that...
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As part of being an archaeologist I have to read a tremendous amount of books and scholarly journals, on a huge range of topics, relating to past societies and their ethnographic parallels. Whilst...
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If I could be any animal in the world I’d probably plump for a golden eagle or something along those lines. In reality, knowing my luck I’d come back as something that sucked up...
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Hollow earth theory is sort of similar to the flat earth theory. It was very popular back in the olden days but has since been filed in the drawer marked “Nah… probably not”....
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Welcome to another installment of majestically Russian photography. As ever it’s a mixed bag from the length and breadth of the greatest nation on earth. They’re all stolen from genuinely Russian websites and...
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The title of ‘vampire squid’ gives this creature of the deep a pretty sinister overtone; and the way it looks certainly doesn’t help its case much either. But does the vampire squid live up...
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Paleontology doesn’t get reported in the media much unless they find the biggest or weirdest or most frightening thing EVER. And that’s what’s happened here. Recent discoveries in the frozen South have found the...
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We’ve all seen photos of the Arc de Triomphe (above) or the Pyramids from right up close. But here’s a series of photos from those iconic venues from a little bit further back. These awe inspiring buildings...
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