The Edo-period statue is incredibly rare, meaning it wouldn't be easy to resell. Police are still unsure of the thief's motive. Bakarat GalleryThe Buddha statue stolen from the Barakat Gallery in Los Angeles, California on Sept. 18. Earlier this month, a thief executed a plan to steal a 250-pound Buddha statue from the Barakat Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. In the dark of night, around 3 a.

From the Cartwheel Galaxy to the Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula, discover some of the most incredible photos taken by the James Webb Telescope.Launched on December 25, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most sensitive observatory ever sent into space. Building the telescope was a massive undertaking for NASA, one that took about 20 years and $10 billion. But many experts think that the images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope prove it was worth the trouble.

From cutting off fingertips to living with the dead, humankind has come up with some incredibly strange cultural practices.Image Source: The Daily Mail Some are taboo, some are cringe-inducing, some are downright revolting, and all are extraordinarily bizarre. From the weirdest things we put in our bodies to the weirdest things we lop off our bodies to the weirdest things we do with our dead bodies, here are seven of the strangest cultural practices from around the world that are still carried out today:

Fred And Rosemary West’s Incestuous Murder House Ian Cook/Getty ImagesFred and Rosemary West’s home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, England, where the couple tortured and murdered not only their teenage daughter, but a number of other girls over a nearly 20-year period. Rosemary West was a shy, quiet child, but beneath the unassuming surface, there was something amiss about her. At age 12, she raped one of her brothers. Later on, she harassed the boys in her village.

Discovered by mere chance, the fossilized creature is the largest millipede ever found — and would have grown to weigh 110 pounds with a body spanning nine feet.Neil Davies et al.A resourceful research breaking off parts of the Northumberland boulder containing the Arthropleura fossil. For those afraid of creepy crawlers, the Carboniferous Era would’ve been overwhelming. About 100 million years before the dinosaurs, that period of time saw giant millipedes spanning up to nine feet roam around Earth.