Cool Facts. 1  Great Horned Owls are fierce predators that can take large prey, including raptors such as Ospreys, Peregrine Falcons, Prairie Falcons, and other owls. They also eat much smaller items such as rodents, frogs, and scorpions. 2  When clenched, a Great Horned Owlâs strong talons require a force of 28 pounds to open.
Venus of Willendorf. The Venus of Willendorf, now known in academia as the Woman of Willendorf, is a 11.1-centimetre (4.4 in) high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been made between about 28,000 and 25,000 BCE. [1]
It was discovered in 1908 near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the city of Krems.alileo in 1610 was first to observe that Venus had a visible disk and that it had phases like the moon so perhaps he could be considered to have discovered the modern Venus. Captain James Cook made observations of a Transit of Venus in 1776-1779.