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In 1912, the Titanic sailed legally with 20 lifeboats and places for 1,178 people, because Britain's rules put every ship of 10,000 gross tons and above in the same top category, while Titanic measured 46,328. The first international safety convention was adopted two years later and required lifeboat accommodation for everyone aboard.
Four giant three-toed prints found in 2025 near Marmarth, North Dakota turned out to be the first trackway ever attributed to an adult T. rex, and the 66.5-million-year-old sequence records a 13-foot stride — the predator was strolling at 3.5 to 4.5 mph, about the pace of a brisk human walk
The turkey on nearly every festive table belongs to a breed so heavily engineered for a large breast that the birds can no longer physically mate, which means every commercial turkey alive is the product of artificial insemination, and the entire commercial breed now depends on human hands to reproduce at all.
Adult females of a millipede newly described from the Kazakh Altai have almost no second pair of legs, the subadult females still have them, and in both of the only two adult females collected the flattened leg bases block the genital opening
