by Captain Skellett | Mar 26, 2012 | Drugs
Richard Spruce had seen some strange villages since arriving in South America in 1849, but this one took the cake. It was a ghost town. Every door was shut tight against the hot, humid jungle, while inside people slumbered away the sunlight. Being the adventurous...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 6, 2010 | Recent Research, The Realm of Bizzare
Deep in a desert in Peru palaeontologists were searching for a skull. Some years ago, teeth thought to belong to a new species of marine animal had been found, but they needed a head to identify it. Hunting in the richest area for ancient sea remains, luck eluded them...