The Great Barrier Reef is 2,900km long and home to a quarter of the world’s ocean species. So it’s no wonder that marine biologists, fearing its pollution-driven demise, started freezing corals so they can preserve them for later.
This body, buried in the 1800s, is known as Soapman. Why? Because when re-discovered in 1875, the fats on his body had transformed into soap. How did it happen? Don’t click if you have a weak stomach.
Long before there were ever interactive star maps on phones—or even phones for that matter—there were carefully drawn charts on paper. Simple, yet so beautiful.
