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It's been 54 years since the infamous Exploding Whale of Oregon incident of 1970. Back in 2020, the Oregon Historical Society ...

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US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, known to many as RFK Jr, hit headlines this week after a decade-old deposition ...

Heralded as the “missing evolutionary link” that proved modern-day birds evolved from feathered dinosaurs nearly three ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...