| Europe's Last/Lost Giants |
 | Around 1500 AD, Europeans managed to kill the last ancestors of the domestic cattle, called aurochs. The auroch was a giant animal as compared to the domesticated cattle (1.8 m or 6 ft height in withers, compared to around 1.5 m or 5 ft in modern cattle).
The body was black and the horns were lyre-shaped and set in a forward angle, being much larger than in the case of the domestic cattle. With all its size, the auroch was ag ... [read more >>] |
| 06 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Some Real Facts about Native Americans |
 | Their legends say that they were created from earth, water and stars. DNA says they came from Siberia to what is now Alaska, Canada and US, through a land bridge called Behringia, about 15,000 years ago. Older western movies depicted them as wild and cruel. But in fact, they were victims of the intrusion in their territory of the greediest predator they ever faced: the White Man.
The Native Americans were often called Red Skins. The n ... [read more >>] |
| 12 January 2008, 03:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |