Animals
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A certain fungus may just turn ants into zombies–sort of. Scientists have discovered a parasitic fungus that can manipulate its victims to die in the vicinity of the colony, ensuring a constant supply of potential new hosts.Like Us on FacebookRelated Articles Humble Ants May be Key to Sequestering Carbon Dioxide and Curbing Global Warming Known…
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“Bangkok is the bright city. The green lights outside the city? No idea…” This was the description accompanying the photo above, perplexingly Tweeted by Expedition 40/41 astronaut Reid Wiseman on Aug. 18, 2014. And while we’ve all seen fascinating photos of our planet shared by ISS crew members over the years this one is quite…
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Sometimes you do meet greatest. In 2002, I was asked to be the senior series consultant on a return to the air of In Search Of…I was flown down to Orlando, worked with some of the top staff, and met producer Alan Landsburg. When he talked, people listened. The man knew documentaries. They were in…
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In response to the controversial Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine, which kicked off the Discovery Channel’s celebrated Shark Week on Sunday night, it’s time to deal with not only the suspect science represented in the annual curtain-raiser, but also the persistent myths that still float around about sharks… read more News – ‘Shark of…
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Turkish beachgoers received a gruesome surprise last week when the body of a freakish two-headed dolphin washed onto the shore of Izmir on Turkey’s west coast. The two-headed dolphin, which had two heads but merged to share just one tail, was discovered by sports teacher Tugreul Metin who watched in amazement as it washed onto…
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Veterinarian Dr. Michael Fox has encountered many stories of dogs seeming to sense from a distance that their masters are in trouble and other such experiences that seem to indicate animal clairvoyance.Dr. Fox believes that animals can tap into what he calls the “empathosphere,” where thoughts and feelings physically exist. Animals seem able to detect…
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A zoo is welcoming its latest exciting arrival into the world – a rare “zebroid”, or “zonkey”, which was born after a lonesome zebra got intimate with a donkey. read more Rare zonkey born at zoo – The West Australian.
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Very mobile ears help many animals direct their attention to the rustle of a possible predator.But a study in horses suggests they also pay close attention to the direction another’s ears are pointing in order to work out what they are thinking. read more BBC News – Horses’ mobile ears are ‘communication tool’.
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While bear attacks are not a common occurrence, they are becoming more frequent than in the past. Part of the reason for this increase in attacks is due to humans moving into more rural areas where bears live. Another reason for an increase in bear attacks is more people are camping and hiking in bear…
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When I first saw this x-ray photo I thought it was some frame from a sci-fi movie but I was wrong. It’s actually the embryo of a bat… via This alien looking creature lives right here on Earth with us.
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Colossal penguin bones from the extinct species Palaeeudyptes klekowskii have been discovered on an island in the Antarctic Peninsula. According to a new study published in Comptes Rendus Palevol last week, these newly uncovered bones belonged to a 2-meter-long behemoth, the tallest and heaviest penguin ever described. read more Scientists Discover Massive Species Of Extinct…
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A DETERMINED angler has scaled the heights of fishing – hooking the biggest fish ever caught off the UK coastline.Daniel Bennett, 26, will make the unofficial record books with his 208lb skate.The only reason he won’t make it on the official list is because the massive fish had to be thrown back to sea as…
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Of all the creatures in the whole wide world, you’ll be surprised to know that leeches have played a fairly important role in the history of weather forecasting. An incredibly bizarre device invented by Dr. George merry weather, in the 19th century, called the tempest prognosticator, was basically a barometer powered by leeches. read more…
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Imagine a land infested with rapacious shape-shifting spider-maidens, hideous blood-sucking hags with razor-sharp talons, gigantic fire-breathing roosters, green-skinned rubbery ghost-turtles, enormous disembodied skyborne heads foretelling thunderstorms, and innumerable other monstrosities of mayhem. For what is, geographically-speaking, a relatively small, insular nation, Japan has an extraordinarily diverse pantheon of traditional mythological monsters, many of which are…
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A team of French archaeologists at Warcq, Ardennes northern France, recently completed the excavation of a remarkably preserved high status Gallic tomb complete with chariot.Chariot burials commence around the 7th century BCE, however they are more commonly found in the Ardennes region from the beginning of the second Iron Age 5th-4th centuries BCE. read more…
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A newly discovered dinosaur was built sort of like a biplane, but probably did not fly as well — if at all.Scientists on Tuesday described a fossil of the strange dinosaur, which lived in China 125 million years ago. The creature was covered in feathers and apparently had two sets of wings and may have…
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A family were left baffled after discovering this weird ‘sea monster’ washed up on Weston-super-Mare beach.Stunned Lisa Worthington, 42, came across the denizen of the deep while out walking the family dog with husband, Peter, 52, and their two children.The two-foot long skeletal remains were found on the high tide mark on the beach in…
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An ancient ancestor of the elephant, once believed to have disappeared from North America before humans ever arrived there, might actually have roamed the continent longer than previously thought. Archaeologists have uncovered the first evidence that gomphotheres were once hunted in North America. read more Bones of elephant ancestor unearthed: Meet the gomphothere — ScienceDaily.
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I am at the Jardin des Plantes, in the Fifth Arrondissement on the Left Bank of the Seine. Here we find one of the world’s oldest zoos, still officially called a “menagerie,” various greenhouses and rows of brilliant dahlias book-ended by statues of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. We also find the…
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New dates for elk bones recovered from Lundby bog in 1999 show that the bones had been placed there over several centuries. “People have been living here, that’s quite certain. But so far we’ve not found settlements that are as old as the elk bones, so the identity of the people who put the bones…
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That’s an alien if ever I saw one! But it’s not trying to take over the world, snatch our bodies or conduct so-called “experiments” with unwholesome probes and such. It’s happy just to bob around like a sweetie-pie!This particular alien is a siphonophore, and as such is among the weirdest of the weird. read more…
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Scientists say their picture of ancient Canada during the Eocene epoch, lasting from 56 to 33.9 million years ago, is rather incomplete thanks to a scattered, elusive fossil record… read more Paleontologists unearth fossils of tapir and world’s smallest hedgehog – UPI.com.
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CT scans of two newborn woolly mammoths recovered from the Siberian Arctic are revealing previously inaccessible details about the early development of prehistoric pachyderms. In addition, the X-ray images show that both creatures died from suffocation after inhaling mud… read more Two CT-scanned Siberian mammoth calves yield trove of insights.
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A Russian fishing blog has sent anglers scrambling to catch giant mutant catfish said to be growing near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.The blog even included a picture of one catfish which locals are calling Borka, and which they claim is over two metres long. via ‘Giant mutant catfish’ near Chernobyl | Orange…
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Fossils unearthed at a construction project in South Carolina belong to a bird with the largest wingspan ever known, according to a new study. The animal measured 6.4 meters from wingtip to wingtip, about the length of a 10-passenger limousine and approaching twice the size of the wandering albatross, today’s wingspan record-holder. Like modern-day albatrosses,…