Capcom is offering $70K for proof of monsters

The video game developer and publisher is looking for evidence that monsters exist in the real world. As part of its promotional campaign for the release of new game 'Monster Hunter: World', Capcom has teamed up with cryptozoologist Jon Downes to come up with a list of real-life monster legends. A prize of $70,000 is on offer to anyone who can prove that any one of these is actually real. If you want to become a real-time monster hunter,...

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Titanic to be turned in to a tourist attraction

Entrepreneur Stockton Rush is aiming to offer tourists the opportunity to visit the wreckage in person. While companies such as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic are looking to offer trips in to space, Stockton's company OceanGate has set its sights firmly in the opposite direction. More people scale Everest in a single day than have ever visited the wreck of the Titanic, he argues. There's a good reason for this too - at 13,000ft beneath...

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Strange Mars structures may be trace fossils

The Mars Curiosity rover has discovered some rather peculiar structures and nobody knows what they are. Measuring mere millimeters in length, these angular stick-like features were visible in the first batch of photographs taken this year using the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) instrument. "They look remarkably similar to Ordovician trace fossils I have studied and photographed here on Earth," said astrobiologist and author...

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