Gold coin hoard worth $300K found beneath kitchen floor in England

Ancient Roman penis sculpture could be the largest phallus carving of its kind ever discovered | Gold coin hoard worth $300K found beneath kitchen floor in England | Bizarre 'Levanter' cloud billows off Rock of Gibraltar in breathtaking time-lapse video Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( September 7, 2022 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE  [Facebook]( [Twitter](  [LIVESCIENCE]( Amazing science every day [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [WEBSITE](  [] Top Science News [] [Ancient Roman penis sculpture could be the largest phallus carving of its kind ever discovered]( [Ancient Roman penis sculpture could be the largest phallus carving of its kind ever discovered]( (Historical Museum of Nueva Carteya) A girthy stone penis sculpture recently uncovered at an ancient Roman site in Spain measures about 18 inches (46 centimeters) long, which could make it the largest Roman phallus carving ever discovered. The chiseled genitals may have been carved and displayed to ward off bad luck, according to experts. Archaeologists uncovered the lengthy sculpted shaft at El Higuerón, a site near the town of Nueva Carteya in the Córdoba region of Spain. The Historical Museum of Nueva Carteya, which is leading the excavation of the site, shared the find in an Aug. 19 Facebook post. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/7) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( Just the Facts, Ma'am "I stopped watching the news, so sick of the bias. Was searching for an alternative that would just tell me WHAT happened, with NO editorializing. I found it. It's called 1440. It assumes you are smart enough to form your own opinions." [Subscribe for free](. ADVERTISEMENT: [] History & Archaeology [] [Gold coin hoard worth $300K found beneath kitchen floor in England]( [Gold coin hoard worth $300K found beneath kitchen floor in England]( (Courtesy Spink & Son) Homeowners in the United Kingdom discovered a stash of gold coins hidden beneath the wood floorboards of their kitchen during a renovation. The cache, which is estimated to be valued at around $290,000 (250,000 pounds) at auction, is believed to be one of the largest hoards of 17th- and 18th-century English gold coins ever found in Britain and includes more than 260 gold coins dating to between 1610 and 1727, according to CNN. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/7) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Amazing Earth [] [Bizarre 'Levanter' cloud billows off Rock of Gibraltar in breathtaking time-lapse video]( [Bizarre 'Levanter' cloud billows off Rock of Gibraltar in breathtaking time-lapse video]( (Met Office Gibraltar) An unusual cloud formation, known locally as a "Levanter," was recently captured in exquisite detail as it appeared to flow off the peak of the Rock of Gibraltar, a monolithic peak located in the British overseas territory of the same name in southern Europe. The Gibraltar Met Office captured the new time-lapse video on Aug. 24 on the runway at Gibraltar International Airport and shared the breathtaking scene on Twitter. In the sped-up footage, the billowing cloud appears to form out of thin air around the peak of the 1,398-foot-tall (426 meters) Rock of Gibraltar, which is home to Europe's only wild monkey population, a group of around 300 Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus), according to the Gibraltar tourism website. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/6) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Astronomy & Astrophysics [] [James Webb telescope captures ghostly image of a celestial nautilus 32 million light-years from Earth]( [James Webb telescope captures ghostly image of a celestial nautilus 32 million light-years from Earth]( (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team; ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar. Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has snapped a dramatic new image of a spiral galaxy that looks like a celestial seashell crafted from blue and pink gossamer filaments of gas. The galaxy, called M74, resembles the seashell of a nautilus, whose spiral dimensions are thought to obey the Fibonacci sequence. Also known as the Phantom Galaxy, M74 is located about 32 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces. M74 is known as a "grand design spiral" because of its prominent and well-defined spiral arms. It's also directly in Earth's line of sight, which makes the galaxy a popular target for astronomers studying the origin and structure of galactic spirals. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/6) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Curious Creatures [] [Ginormous Jurassic fossil in Portugal may be the biggest dinosaur ever found in Europe]( [Ginormous Jurassic fossil in Portugal may be the biggest dinosaur ever found in Europe]( (Photo courtesy of Instituto Dom Luiz (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal)) The remains of what appears to be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Europe were recently unearthed in Portugal. So far, scientists have excavated a gigantic rib cage belonging to a long-necked sauropod, possibly a brachiosaurid, that lived about 150 million years ago during the latter part of the Jurassic period (201.3 million to 145 million years ago). While the research team has yet to identify the species, the bones are already breaking records. 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