Very interesting!

Best part is that people are discovering new species all the time

True, not to mention that we've explored very little of our ocean and are beginning to explore space!

I read recently that scientists have concluded that there is no way they would have been able to fight properly had they been on that particular drugs. Instead, it is thought to have been a part of a ritual

Yes something about a belt and its exciting bondage. So yeah herc got really kinky

On which?

All but the mushroom one, I've read in textbooks that's true. But I've never heard of the others and know better than to trust it unless it has a legitimate source.

The titanoboa is real at least http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/titanoboa-monster-snake/0/140671

There is or was such a thing as both the colossal squid and megalania