Let's Learn Namibia's Geography!
I know I'm undereducated about Namibia. Maybe you are too?
I know I'm undereducated about Namibia. Maybe you are too?
Uatchitodon, the earliest known venomous reptile, lived about 200 million years ago. Its existence is known only from its surviving teeth.
"The Great Unconformity" is the technical term for where layers of rock suddenly jump in time - skipping about a billion years forward. The good news is, researchers may have solved what's going on!
Female Ethiopian captain Aster Tolossa is allegedly the first female pilot to shoot down an enemy fighter jet. She did so in 2000 near Asmara, in Eritrean airspace.
Gilbert Highet, on Juvenal. Highet (1906 – 1978) was a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian. Juvenal (1st century - 2nd century CE) was a Roman poet who published at least five books of verses. They lived 1,800 years apart, proving the truth of Highet's quote.
The ancient Greeks and Romans thought giraffes were an unnatural offspring of a camel and a leopard. Due to the animal's camel-like shape and leopard-like spots. The camel's Latin name is pretty simple: "camelopardalis." Which is how the camel's scientific name came to be "Giraffa camelopardalis."
A recent DNA analysis of the head, with help from the FBI, revealed the head belonged to Djehutynakht himself. The analysis was done based on DNA extracted from a molar. Besides solving a hundred-year-old mystery, this is one of the first times viable DNA has been recovered from an ancient Egyptian mummy!
The earliest known sea turtle fossils are about 120 million years old. That means they just make it into the Cretaceous Period (which began about 145 million years ago). Sea turtles co-existed with tyrannosauruses and triceratops!
Gold sandals, with gold finger covers and gold toe covers. Found at the tomb of the three wives of Thutmoses III, Menhet, Menwi and Merti, all of them apparently Syrian-born, in Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud. Circa 1479 to 1425 BCE
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 CE. His nickname is "the Philosopher"
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