Researchers studying the sharpness mark leave alone behind on a fractured dodo skull have calculated the incredible os - crushing bite of an ancient whale : Basilosaurus isischomped down on other whales with the power of over 1,600 kilograms ( 3,500 pounds ) . Thefindingswere published inPLOS ONEthis week . innovative heavyweight emerged from archaeocete whale in the latest Eocene or earliest Oligocene around 34 million years ago . But unlike their early ancestors , today ’s whales do n’t masticate ....

Director Greg Mottola explains why Paul ’s stranger involve to be CGI . True Grit ’s breakout virtuoso still wants to be in The Hunger Games . Plus Johnny Depp talks Dark Shadows , tons of hints from the cast of True line , and more ! spoiler from here on out ! Top image from The Adjustment Bureau . The Dark Knight Rises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j71H2g38eM I ca n’t think we ’re still micro - analyzing every stray remark to work out if Anne Hathaway is spiel Catwoman or just Selina Kyle in the pic , so let ’s just debate this latest interview with Hathaway — in which she explicitly talks about playing Catwoman — the end of the story ....

Speaking of the XDA , BBC News has a disarmingly well - save review of its replacement , the XDA II , which feed on the 2003 variation of Pocket microcomputer Phone Phone Edition operating scheme , has 128 MB of RAM , a 400MHz processor , an SDIO expansion slot ( so you’re able to sum up WiFi ) , a 65,000 color display , Bluetooth , and a build - in digital camera ....

At the center of this figure of speech is a supermassive pitch-dark trap , dash radiation out from the heart of its galaxy . Those two bursts of pinkish to the unexpended and good are jet plane of particles that the black-market cakehole is blast out of the coltsfoot at unbelievable hurrying . Chandra X - shaft Laboratoryreports on what you ’re seeing : This multi - wavelength view demo 4C+29....

Just because you had some clock time off this week does n’t mean the cyberspace discontinue churning out awesomeness . From head - flabbergast mental imagery to more fake “ fun fact , ” and a ton of advice on all those newfangled gadgets you unwrapped , here ’s the secure stuff we write this hebdomad . Feast your heart ! The 20 Best Movies Disappearing From Netflix on New Year’s Day When the clock strike its last midnight in 2013 — or somewhere around there , anyway — scads of movies will go away from Netflix cyclosis ....

When cartoonistZach Weinerdiscovered that NOM ( an anti - gay marriage lobbying group ) had appropriated one of his funnies as a hotlink on its website , he dismiss back in the simplest , apt style he could . Hechanged the imageto this . Weiner manage to ferment yesterday’sSaturday Morning Breakfast Cerealpanel into a rainbow fleur-de-lis and the following quote from the Declaration of Independence , but only on NOM ’s website :...

There might be a cheesy Blockbuster standard ad blocking some of the textual matter , but I ’ve managed to make out from this DS IGN article that GameStop has allegedly stopped take preorders for the Nintendo DS due their initial stock being all “ reserved up . ” Citing how the corporate party - poopers did n’t require to over - appropriate the Nintendo DS , computer storage managers reportedly describe DS sales being “ very estimable ” and “ first-class ....

On Gotham , we ’ve nonplus a young Bruce Wayne who is n’t Batman yet . And it ’s unclear as to whether mega - maniacal Jerome Valeska will become the Joker doom to become the Dark Knight ’s arch - enemy . But the Fox superhero show is going to have them fight back anyway , because there ai n’t no rules inits uncanny little pocket universe . https://gizmodo.com/gotham-returns-as-delightfully-insane-as-ever-1786842901...

recall that great Henry Cavill Superman return we were all ready for ? The one teasedat the end of Black Adamandthen confirm by Cavill himself ? Well , it ’s not happening . Instead , a raw Superman film will concenter on a young version of the character , which James Gunn himself is writing . Cavill divulge onInstagramthat he just met with DC Films ’ political boss Gunn and Peter Safran , who told himhe ’s not part of their design ....

From Maine to the British Isles, only a few fishermen have ever hauled in a blue lobster, a rare crustacean with an iridescent sapphire hue. Gary Lewis / Getty ImagesWhile most lobsters are greenish - brown , a rarified genetic sport stimulate sure specimen to have bright blue colourise that prepare them extremely valuable . Though there are many unusually colorful specimen experience under the sea , there are none quite like the risque lobster ....

At Mental Floss , we receive so many Christian Bible that , come year ’s closing , every staffer ’s desk looks like its own piddling library ( the way we lend , trade , and barter for each others ' Scripture give our office a program library atmosphere , too ) . Of the century of book that crossed our desk in 2018 , these were our favorites ....

The understanding for small-grained silver ’s exceptional antimicrobic properties has been revealed , and it ’s probably inspiring picture scripts right now . Bacteria that take up the alloy die , but then protrude obliterate their neighbors in a zombie - like massacre . Silver is a very efficacious , albeit expensive , antiseptic — a factput to useeven before thegerm hypothesis of diseaseexplained what the silver was killing ....

From 1971 to 1979, Idi Amin Dada ruled Uganda with an iron fist — and may have killed upwards of 500,000 people. Like this gallery?Share it : Jan. 10 , 1976 . Addis Ababa , Ethiopia . He was do it for his smile , but military potentate Idi Amin Dada ruled Uganda with an iron fist for eight long years . Those who keep the general ’s military coup that overrule President Milton Obote in 1971 had no musical theme how violent and tyrannical the next decade would be ....