The bones, tucked away in fossil drawers and storage, belong to a pliosaur and suggest that this ancient sea creature could grow even larger than scientists previously thought.Megan Jacobs/University of PortsmouthA depiction of a pliosaur. Paleobiology professor David Martill was looking through fossil drawers at Abingdon County Hall Museum in the United Kingdom when he came upon a large vertebrae. To his delight, Martill then found out that the museum had three more in storage — and realized that he’d stumbled upon fossils of a pliosaur, an ancient Jurassic “sea monster.

Weegee's striking crime scene photos that captured "the details and drama, the humor and the horror, along the city’s streets." Mott Street. 1925.Bettmann/Getty Images Mafia kingpin Joe Masseria holds the ace of spades, "the death card," in his hand following his 1931 murder on the orders of infamous gangster "Lucky" Luciano in a Coney Island restaurant. Bettmann/Getty Images 1943Weegee (Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images 1916Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images The brown 1968 Buick Skylark, belonging to Robert Violante, parked in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, New York City, where Violante and Stacy Moskowitz were shot by American serial killer, David Berkowitz (a.

Spider Facts: They Protect Your Home Dan Bergstrom/Flickr While we may want to rid our homes of spiders, it’s best to reconsider. The average spider can eat as many as 2,000 bugs each year (aided by the ability to leap up to 50 times their own body length — at least for jumping spiders), including harmful and/or annoying pests like moths, mosquitoes, and flies. And while spiders will take care of these pests, it’s rather unlikely that a spider will go out of its way to approach you, especially out of aggression.

These Roald Dahl facts reveal that the beloved children's author led a life shaped largely by tragedy.Ronald Dumont/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images He introduced the world to Matilda, Charlie, James, and the BFG. And while the main characters forged by Roald Dahl’s feverish imagination are nothing short of sweet, the circumstances they face are decidedly less so. The cruelties of chance shape the plights of his child protagonists, with perseverance — and a will to hope — serving as the only ways they can see their way through their worldly troubles.

A shocking new report reveals just how many albinos, mostly children, are being killed for their body parts in the African nation of Malawi.An albino boy plays with a self-made ball on the outskirts of Lilongwe, Malawi on March 11, 2016. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images Albinos in several African countries have long been hunted, attacked, and even killed for their body parts, thought to bring good luck and make for powerful witchdoctors’ potions.