Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Ancient Rites & Sacred Places -- Maya "Doomsday" Calendar Explained -- Millions of Puppy Mummies -- Lifelike Chinese "Wet Mummy" -- Celtic Princess Tomb Yields Gold, Amber Riches -- Ancient Sorcerer's "Wake" First Feast for the Dead? -- Ancient Chinese Chariot Fleet -- New Death Ritual Found in Himalaya -- Entrance to Maya Underworld Found in Mexico? -- Tomb of the Otters Filled With Stone Age Human Bones -- Headless Romans in England Came From "Exotic" Locales? -- ch. 2 The Body Human -- Superhuman Hearing Possible? -- Women Can Sniff Out Men Without Knowing---and Vice Versa -- Is Your Brain Asleep While You're Awake? -- Oldest Known Heart Disease Found in Egyptian Mummy -- Rejection Really Hurts, Brain Scans Show -- Cocaine Addiction Uses Same Brain Paths as Salt Cravings -- Different Nose Parts for Stinky, Sweet -- Sleep Cherry-Picks Memories, Boosts Cleverness -- Drug Could Make Aging Brains More Youthful? --
Contents note continued: Your Hair Reveals Whether You're a Morning Person -- Mutated DNA Causes No-Fingerprint Disease -- Making Music Bolsters the Brain's Abilities -- The 2,500-Year-Old Brain -- Eating Crocodile Helped Boost Early Human Brains? -- Astronauts' Fingernails Falling Off -- Ball Lightning May Be a Hallucination -- Secrets of Synesthesia -- Secrets of Sleeping Soundly -- ch. 3 Creature Features -- Five Weirdest New Animals -- Crocodile Attacks Unsuspecting Elephant -- Spiky Rat Plant Poison Turns Hair Deadly -- Vampire Bats Have Vein Sensors -- Goats Scale Dam Walls -- Nature's Four Worst Mothers -- Longest Polar Bear Swim Recorded -- Alligators Surprisingly Loyal to Old Flames -- How Do Giant Pandas Survive? -- "Vampire" Frog Found in Vietnam -- These Stripes Say Stay Away! -- Elephant Makes a Stool-First Aha! Moment for Species! -- Biggest Crocodile Ever Caught? -- Hibernating Bears Keep Weirdly Warm -- ch. 4 Creepy Crawlies --
Contents note continued: Wasps Can Recognize Faces Study Says -- Bumblebee Seeks Warm Flowers for Heavy Pollination -- Virus Brainwashes Caterpillars -- "Zombie" Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi -- Cricket Has World's Biggest Testicles (But Puny Output) -- New "Devil Worm" Is Deepest-Living Animal -- Fire Ants Swarm Form Life Raft -- Snails Survive Being Eaten by Birds -- Five Weirdest Bugs -- Spider "Resurrections" Take Scientists by Surprise -- All in the Family -- Cockroach Brains May Hold New Antibiotios? -- Ladybug Incubators Enslaved by Wasps -- Male Spiders Massage Their Mates -- Alien Wasps Abduct Ants, Drop Them to Get Food -- ch. 5 Explaining the Unexplained -- Titanic Discovered During Secret Cold War Navy Mission -- Bigfoot Discovery Declared a Hoax -- Chupacabra Science: How Evolution Made a Monster -- Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed -- Kraken Sea Monster Account "Bizarre and Miraculous" --
Contents note continued: King Tut Mysteries Solved: Disabled, Malarial, and Inbred -- "Vampire" Skull Found in Italy -- Amelia Earhart Spit Samples to Help Lick Mystery? -- Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room? -- The Freemasons: 8 Myths Decoded -- Crop Circles Explained! Frauds, Artists, Scientists, and Aliens -- 7 Moon-Landing Hoax Myths---Busted -- Loch Ness Sea Monster Fossil a Fake, Say Scientists -- ch. 6 Feathered Friends -- Highest Flying Bird Found -- Body Odor Attracting Predators to Birds -- Half-Male, Half-Female Chicken -- Sexually Showy Male Birds Finish Early -- Why Do Birds Fall From the Sky? -- Bird With "Human" Eyes Knows What You're Looking At -- Bird "Sings" Through Feathers -- Birds Can "See" Earth's Magnetic Field -- Chubby Snipe Snaps Nonstop Record -- Elusive "Smiling" Bird Captured on Film -- Superfast Muscle Power Found in Songbirds' Throats -- Crows Have Human-Like Intelligence, Author Says -- Why Transylvanian Chickens Have Naked Necks --
Contents note continued: ch. 7 The Final Frontier -- What Created Earth's Oceans? Comet Offers New Clue -- New Planet May Be Among Most Earthlike, Weather Permitting -- Sun Headed into Hibernation, Solar Studies Predict -- Star Caught Eating Another Star, X-Ray Flare Shows -- Saturn Moon Coated in Fresh Powder -- Star Found Shooting Water "Bullets" -- Uranus Has a Bright New Spot, Picture Shows -- Planets Being Pulverized Near Giant Black Holes? -- Youngest Planet Picture: Gas Giant Seen in Throes of Creation -- "Diamond" Planet Found, May Be Stripped Star -- Seven Supernovae Found in Single Galaxy---A First -- Meteors Delivered Gold to Baby Earth -- Darkest Planet Found -- Should Pluto Be a Planet? -- "Vampire" Stars Found in the Heart of Our Galaxy---A First -- ch. 8 Human History -- Oldest Known Mattress Found -- Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery Solved? -- Legendary Swords' Sharpness, Strength From Nanotubes, Study Says -- Lost City Revealed Under Centuries of Jungle Growth --
Contents note continued: The Seven New Wonders of the World -- 120 Ancient Roman Shoes Found In U.K. -- Maya Collapse Caused by Man-Made Climate Change? -- Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists -- Mysterious Inscribed Slate Discovered at Jamestown -- "Lost" Fortresses of Sahara Revealed by Satellites -- Spawn of Medieval "Black Death" Bug Still Roam the Earth -- Oldest Readable Writing in Europe -- Blackboard's Ship Yields Ornamental Sword -- King Solomon's Wall Found, Proof of Bible Tale? -- Vikings Navigated With Translucent Crystals? -- Jewelry Shows De Soto Deeper In U.S. Than Originally Thought -- ch. 9 Natural Phenomena -- Oldest Living Tree Found in Sweden -- The Truth About Daylight Saving Time -- UFO-Like Clouds Linked to Military Maneuvers? -- Giant Sinkholes Pierce Guatemala -- Yellowstone Has Bulged as Magma Pocket Swells -- Brand-New Cloud -- Solved! The Case of the Giant Crystals -- Giant, Mucuslike Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger --
Contents note continued: "Bodies" Fill Underwater Sculpture Park -- Moss Has Cloned Itself for 50,000 Years, Study Says -- World's Biggest Cave Found in Vietnam -- New "Porta Potti" Flower Discovered -- ch. 10 Prehistoric Life -- T. Rex, Other Dinosaurs Had Heads Full of Air -- Massive "Sea Monster" Skull Revealed -- Biggest Snake Discovered, Was Longer Than a Bus -- Oldest Animal Discovered, Aquatic African Ancestor -- Ancient "Saber-Toothed Squirrel" Found -- Prehistoric Bird Had Wings Like Nunchucks -- "Thunder Thighs" Dinosaur Thrashed Predators to Death? -- Giant Bugs Once Roamed the Earth -- Brainy Birds Out-Thought Doomed Dinosaurs? -- Prehistoric "Shield"-Headed Croc Found -- Largest Flying Bird Could Barely Get off Ground, Fossils Show -- Oldest Fossil Brain Found in Kansas -- Did Love Make Neanderthals Extinct? -- "Nasty" Little Predator From Dinosaur Dawn Found -- Venomous Dinosaur Discovered -- Giant "Roly-Poly" Rabbit Fossil Found -- ch. 11 Underwater Weirdness --
Contents note continued: Rare "Cyclops" Shark Found
Fish With "Hands" Found to Be New Species
Wild Fish Uses Tool, Cockle Put to Clever Use
Piranhas Bark, Three Fierce Vocalizations Deciphered
Squid Males Evolved Shot-in-the-Dark Mating Strategy
Great White Shark Jumps on Boat, Stressing Everyone
Giant "Amoebas" Found in Deepest Place on Earth
Sawfish Snout Has Sixth Sense, Splits Prey in Half
"Bizarre" Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters
Lobster Caught "Half Cooked" in Maine
Weird Fish With Transparent Head
Strange Sea Species Found off Greenland
Grizzly Bear-Size Catfish Caught in Thailand
New Jellyfish Attacks Other Jellies
Small Squid Have Bigger Sperm
Census Scopes Out Strange New Sea Species
405-Year-Old Clam Called Longest-Lived Animal.
