skeletons

Like most sandbox games, 2007's Assassin's Creed gave you access to a horse that could help you get around the map more quickly. What you might not have known, though, is that Altair's steed was in fact a human skeleton that Ubisoft's engineers had stretched out and transformed into a horse due to the developer's tools only supporting bipedal characters."The horse in AC1 was just a twisted f***ed-up human skeleton because our tool chain only worked with biped in 3ds max," former Ubisoft developer Charles…

When a collection of thirty-something skeletons was exhumed from graves in northern Kyrgyzstan in the late 1880s, little did archaeologists know that nearly 130 years later, the remains would reveal new evidence about the origins of the Black Death.  The Black Death was the first wave of a 500-year-long pandemic that would go down in history as one of the deadliest of all time. Caused by the pernicious bacterium Yersinia pestis, it left a dark shadow over the Middle Ages, wiping out large swathes of the European…