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The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantom island, was believed to be a black rock located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself. Described by Gerardus Mercator as 33 French miles in size, it provided a supposed explanation for why all compasses point to this location.
Inventio Fortunata (also Inventio Fortunate, Inventio Fortunat or Inventio Fortunatae), "Fortunate, or fortune-making, discovery", is a lost book, probably dating from the 14th century, containing a description of the North Pole as a magnetic island (the Rupes Nigra) surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents.
Living entombed animals are animals supposedly found alive after being encased in solid rock, coal, or wood for a long period of time. [1] The accounts usually involve frogs or toads . No physical evidence exists, and the phenomenon has been dismissed by science.
A bdelloid rotifer is a freshwater creature that can be found around the world, measuring too small to see with 24,000-year-old animal found alive, well and ready to reproduce Skip to main content
Here are some images of the northern green anaconda found in the Orinoco Basin of the Amazon. Images show 'magnificent' size of northern green anaconda.
A missing boy has been found alive after spending nearly a week alone in a northern Zimbabwe game park filled with lions, elephants and other wild animals, local officials said. On Wednesday, Jan ...
According to certain authors, the Jabal Qaf of Muslim cosmology is a version of Rupes Nigra, a mountain whose ascent —such as Dante's climbing of the Mountain of Purgatory, represents the pilgrim's progress through spiritual states.
A young boy was found alive in a game park in Zimbabwe after he went missing for several days. Mutsa Murombedzi, a member of parliament in Mashonaland West, shared the “harrowing” story of ...