A cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago.

Zombies Need Brains is entering the novel market with this original story from Shayne Easson about dark magic, betrayal, and DRAGONS!

It’s almost here! The countdown clock to this year’s Dragon Con can be measured in a handful of days, and there’s still so much to do! Look at these panels. I’ll really need…

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“You can’t make this stuff up,” said Stephanie Stullich, whose nonprofit organization rescued the kitten. “Who would believe it?”

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We already know what Ian Fleming wanted James Bond to look like. In his 1957 novel From Russia, with Love, a memo from the evil organization SMERSH contains a profile of the spy: “Name: Bond,…

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Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne ...

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Runaway weddings had blacksmiths, cobblers and mole-catchers as priests.

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Neil, a 2,200-pound elephant seal, has returned to his birthplace on the Australian coast, causing quite a stir.

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An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable until recently.

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures

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Guided by floating barriers, the Interceptor has already stopped more than 143,000lbs of rubbish from entering the Pacific from one LA river