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15 Incredible Discoveries

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• published: 06 Oct 2016
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From Gila monsters making you not have a chocolate craving to weird farting fish these insane discoveries answer the unknown! Subscribe to Talltanic http://goo.gl/wgfvrr # 8 DNA From 2,500-Year-Old Phoenician In 1994, a man planting trees on Bursa hill in Turkey accidentally fell into an ancient grave and discovered a millennia old corpse. The 2,500-year-old Phoenician body was a young man measured at 5’6” or 1.7 meters tall and possibly a part of a high-class elite as he was buried with gems, scarabs, and amulets. In May of 2016, scientists extracted his DNA and analyzed it, making this the first DNA to ever be obtained from Ancient Phoenicians. # 7 Herring Communicate by Farting Scientists in the UK and Canada worked together to make a strange discovery. Have you seen schools of fish move together, almost as if they were sharing a hive mind or one giant entity? Well, school of herring actually communicate through tiny little farts. They release a 22 kilohertz sound and a tiny stream of air bubbles from their fish anus. They don’t flatulate out of fear or for digestive reasons, they’re farting to communicate with each other. The other Herring can detect These 22 kHz sounds, which allows them to essentially talk to each other which is very helpful when trying to move as a group, especially in the dark. # 6 Gila Monster Spit Reduces Chocolate Craving Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden found something really unexpected in the saliva of the Gila Monster. Exendin-4, a substance that’s found in the saliva, reduces the craving for food in general and things like chocolate and sweets specifically. The researchers used the saliva to experiment on lab rats to see if it would help control diabetes. This crazy monster spit stimulates the “reward” and “motivation” regions of the brain, which reduce hunger pangs, superfluous cravings, and the urge to overeat. # 5 Human-sized Scorpion In 2015, Biologists at Yale discovered a previously unknown species of an enormous scorpion that lived underwater around 467 million years ago. These scorpions, scientifically called Pentecopterus decorahensis, could grow up to 8 feet in length. They are the ancestors of arthropods like arachnids, ticks, and even lobsters. These huge creatures would have lurked in the shallows of coastal water looking for prey to trap in its claws. Imagine seeing this creepy crawly lurking around while you were trying to enjoy your day at the beach... # 4 Yonaguni Monument The Yonaguni monument is a submerged rock formation first discovered a few years ago but wasn’t written about in mainstream media until 2007. Masaaki Kimura, a professor from the Faculty of Science at the University of Ryukyus claims that the formations are man-made monoliths, which sunk 2000 years ago after a devastating earthquake. However, this claim is still largely disputed, and no Japanese or Okinawan agencies have officially recognized the monument as culturally significant in anyway. Is this discovery just a strange, naturally occurring formation or really the Japanese version of Atlantis? # 3 250-Year-Old Pretzel Hey, are these pretzels making you thirsty? We highly recommend you don’t try to eat this pretzel, a 250-year-old relic found during an excavation in Regensburg, a city in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria during the summer of 2014. It’s extremely rare to find any organic objects like this during an excavation, but the fact that these pretzels were burnt helped with preservation. Carbon dating of the old baked goods tell us that they were originally made between 1700 and 1800. # 2 Neanderthal Jewelry Making stuff like jewelry, art, and decoration is generally accredited to a uniquely human thing, but 42,000 years ago, our distant evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals, were making art too. We’ve found evidence of jewelry and trinkets made by the Neanderthals, which are mostly tiny beads made out of animal teeth shells, and ivory. It was believed for a long time that Neanderthals didn’t have the mental capacity to create art or crafts like these, but these new finds have scientists questioning the norm. Could they have actually made crafts like this? Or did the earliest modern humans gift them to Neanderthals? # 1 Oversexed Slugs Don’t Sleep Gardeners in Britain discovered that they were devastated by a swarming overpopulation of slugs. A mild winter they experienced in 2016 wasn’t cold enough to trigger the slugs to hibernate, so they just stayed up all winter. What do slugs do when they don’t sleep for three months? Apparently, they reproduce. A lot. Britain had to deal with dangerously high populations of the horny slugs, which destroyed flowers, seedlings, promote disease and infections, and even drove out smaller less prolific species in the areas they infested.