Whistles shaped like skulls were used to create the sound of screams by the Aztecs.

Kenna and Stephanie learn to play an Aztec "death whistle" before battling giant "Red Monsters" discovered by the James Webb ...

Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles, also known as ehecachichtlis, in 1999 while excavating the ...

When it comes time to cast death as a character in a movie, different films have found a variety of clever solutions that all ...

Just to add to the excitement, the pre-Columbian empire-builders may have conducted some of their favorite activities to the sound of skull-shaped whistles, which produced a horrifying "death ...

A species thought to be missing from the scientific record for decades was actually hidden in photos of another sea creature. Matt Hardy via Unsplash As millions of species roam the planet, there ...

In the deep sea off the coast of Chile, a wiggly creature glitters as it speeds across the seafloor. Matt Hardy via Unsplash Deep below the surface of the ocean, light disappears and colors lose ...

Scientists found a “crocodile”-like creature with orange fingertips at a mountain farm in Vietnam and discovered a new species. Photo from Son Xuan Le via Poyarkov, Nguyen, Le, Le, Arkhipov ...

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have seriously messed with our understanding of the planet. And yes, we admit, the jokes ...

During periods of extreme drought and famine, the Aztecs sacrificed children to the god of rain. Mexico National Institute of Anthropology and History When cultures were still developing ...

Music producer and audio engineer Stephen Kane lives in Huntsville, Alabama, and has a large collection of "unusual instruments," including an Aztec Death Whistle. First discovered during an ...

With the ability to run a full Linux operating system, the Intel Edison board has more than enough computing power for real-time digital audio processing. [Navin] used the Atom based module to ...