Animals
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Don’t mess with an electric eel. Turns out these animals are neural puppetmasters, using electricity as the strings to manipulate their prey. While the serpentine creatures regularly use their zapping powers to temporarily paralyze unlucky fish, they can also send out a shock that will cause hidden fish to twitch, betraying their positions and making…
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Temperatures rocketed to 44 degrees in Casino on Saturday, sparking the mass deaths of up to 5000 flying foxes, many of which simply dropped out of trees and were dead before they hit the ground. read more Heatwave hell as 5000 dead bats drop from trees in Casino, northern NSW | dailytelegraph.com.au.
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Speaking at a meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Berlin, Germany, this past November 6, researcher Georgios Georgalis with Greece’s Aristotle University announced the discovery of the biggest venomous snake ever. read more World’s Biggest Venomous Snake Ever Lived in Greece 4 Million Years Ago – Softpedia.
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During Halloween week, I received an interesting story from Bay Roberts area historian Mike Flynn. He had gotten a note from a woman who lives by Church Hill in Bay Roberts, and wanted to share the tale with me. read more Tales of ghostly horses recorded near and far – Living – The Telegram.
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For nearly 500 years, Hatch was thought to be the only known female aboard when the flagship sank. But new DNA testing tells a different story read more Scientists prove ship’s dog on the doomed Mary Rose was male – Science – News – The Independent.
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A scientist got the surprise of his life when he stumbled across a puppy-sized spider.Piotr Naskrecki, an entomologist, said the sound of the Goliath birdeater walking resembled the clip-clopping of horse hooves.He spotted the beast on a trek in the Amazonian rainforest. read more Puppy-sized spider found in Amazonian rainforest and it sounds like a…
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You would have thought that giant squids would be fans of Greenpeace and their agenda.However, it seems this nightmare-inducing beast of the deep decided to group the environmental activists with the rest of gas-guzzling and ocean-dredging humanity. via Giant squid filmed assaulting and squirting ink at a Greenpeace submarine | Metro News.
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Researchers in Siberia have found the remains of a baby mammoth that researchers believe was caught and eaten by humans about 25,000 years ago, local media reported Thursday.The remains, discovered on the shores of Siberia’s Belaya River, were separated into at least three distinct groups of chopped ribs, a broken skull and other bones, and…
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Usually, people prefer cats with full, robust fur, shunning those mangier specimens with thin, scraggly hairs. But that might be changing. The “werewolf cat” just might be the next big thing. read more The New “Werewolf Cat” Highlights The Complicated Ethics of Breeding.
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If the folklore of phantom black dogs is exceptionally rich then the mythology of dogs shows they have been not only man’s close companions for many millennia, but also providing a very specific spiritual guardianship. read more At the Edge archive: Black dogs mythology.
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We all love a good ghost story, but what happens when it turns out that it’s not a ghost at all? What happens when the dead thing is real, and it’s responsible for the deaths of innocents? read more The Wild West’s Mysterious Red Ghost – Urban Ghosts.
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Cryptozoology reports from the vast state of Alaska indicate there’s another monster afoot in the frozen parts of the world! Is this mysterious creature a relic from the Ice Age, or something new coughed-up by evolution? CryptoVille shovels around searching for the truth! read more The Saber Wolf – Alaska’s Other Cryptid? | CryptoVille.
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A colossal squid weighing 350kg has been retrieved from the deep freeze for scientists to scrutinise.As long as a minibus, the elusive species was fished out of Antarctica’s remote Ross Sea eight months ago.On Tuesday a team of scientists in New Zealand enlisted a forklift to manoeuvre it onto a viewing table. read more Giant…
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Cotswold Archaeology announced that the Cirencester cockerel—a colorful, enameled bronze figurine of a young rooster discovered in a child’s grave in 2011—will go on display at Corinium Museum this month. Such figurines are thought to have been crafted in Britain and exported across the empire, but only eight of them have survived. read more Cirencester’s…
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This extraordinary looking skeleton looks more suited to a Ridley Scott movie than a Lancashire kitchen.The mysterious remains, which bear more than a passing resemblance to the terrifying creature in the Alien horror film, were discovered under a kitchen cabinet in the Rea family home in Altcar, Lancashire. read more In a kitchen cupboard, no…
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Sharks, swamps and a tropical rainforest bursting with life – this isn’t exactly what comes to mind when you think of Yorkshire. But for the first time evidence of Doncaster’s 310-million-year-old past, including a fossilised shark egg case has been discovered in a derelict mining tip. READ MORE ‘Jaws’ lived in Doncaster – HeritageDaily –…
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It was not shaping up to be a great day for the churchgoers of Bungay, England. The congregation of St Mary’s church had braved a horrible storm to attend service on August 14, 1577, when the elegant Anglican building was struck by lightning. And then the hellhound arrived. via Devil Dogs: The Mysterious Black Dogs…
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Depictions of animals in ancient Egyptian artifacts have helped scientists assemble a detailed record of the large mammals that lived in the Nile Valley over the past 6,000 years. A new analysis of this record shows that species extinctions, probably caused by a drying climate and growing human population in the region, have made the…
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A spilt pint. A misplaced glance. A loose tongue. The wrong look. The wrong accent. The wrong attitude. Too much booze. Too little common sense.All these things and far more besides have provided the flimsy excuses for bar-room brawls down the years. But there can be few flare-ups with an odder spark than the ugly…
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It seems like just yesterday when I awkwardly asked WIRED’s resident GIF expert to make one of a pearlfish swimming up a sea cucumber’s bum. Or when I wrote about tiny marsupials that have sex until the males go blind and die… read more The Most Absurd Creatures on Earth, From Satanic Geckos to Fairy…
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It’s not every day that an ordinary fishing trip turns into an encounter with an oversized alien-like sea creature, but that’s what happened recently to one Florida fisherman. read more Oversized Alien-Like ‘Shrimp’ Caught Off Florida Is ID’ed.
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After five geckos froze to death while we studied their sex habits in zero gravity, we look at other animals which have taken one for team mankind read more STAR PAWS: The animal pioneers who played key role in mankind’s race to space – Mirror Online.
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Five-thousand years before it was immortalized in a British nursery rhyme, the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt was doing just fine living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of Quanhucun, a forthcoming study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed.“At least three different lines of scientific…
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There is the riddle of the Bermuda Triangle. The unresolved identity of Jack the Ripper. The enigma of how the Universe developed beyond a quark-gluon soup following the Big Bang. And then there is the Sheepdog Mystery.A puzzle that has niggled mathematical minds for years, the Mystery is this: how does a single dog get…
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For weeks, the Ontario family were starting to think they had a ghost living with them after some strange noises inside their home.But the truth was much worse than a haunted house. read more Mysterious ghost haunting family home turns out to be 10ft PYTHON – Mirror Online.