Diving Horses Were All The Rage In The 1880’s
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Us humans like to look at things we didn’t expect to see. Anything from car crashes to murder victims, it’s an odd habit that I doubt we’ll ever lose. The bad old days...
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Lazarus Taxon: Creatures Once Extinct Raised From The Dead
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Referring of course to the Biblical Lazarus (who Jesus kindly brought back from the jaws of death), a Lazarus taxon is a group of animals initially thought to be extinct only to be discovered...
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200ft Pink Rabbit Placed 5000ft Up The Alps
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Colletto Fava is a 5,000 ft (1,500 metre) hill in Italy. In 2005, Members of the Viennese art group Gelitin (which inclides M. Puletta, Corroni Fali, Razzoli Caputo, and R. Calizone) decided to...
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The Mysterious Pine Forest Swastika
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The pine forest swastika was a massive and mysterious pattern drawn by carefully planted larch trees in a pine forest near Zernikow, Uckermark district, Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany. The image, covering 3,600 square metres...
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Cordyceps: The Most Brutal Of Fungi
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Cordyceps are a group of around 400 different fungi species. The majority of this legion of fungi are insect parasites (entomopathogenic) and destroy their victims in the most blood-curdling and brutal way. They take...
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Red Crab Migration Of Christmas Island
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Christmas Island sits 2,600 kilometres (1,600 miles) northwest of Perth, Western Australia and 500 km (310 miles) south of Indonesia, this relative isolation allowed an interesting and specialised selection of flora and fauna to...
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Rare Giant Squid Fossil
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The fact that we have any fossils at all is pretty miraculous. The normal state of affairs in nature is for an animal to die, get colonised by insects and microorganisms and be...
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Creatonotos Gangis: Another Weird Insect
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Everyone knows that our great green and blue planet is rammed full of weird critters. However, I am still impressed with the extent of strangeness that mother nature throws at us. Recently, I came across...
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VIDEO: Owl Doing Breaststroke
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If a large raptor swoops down to catch itself a water based morsel, it faces the prospect of a soaking. Birds that aren’t used to getting their wings wet won’t particularly like this, but...
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The Blue Angel: Glaucus Atlanticus
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Glaucus atlanticus, variously known as the sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug and blue ocean slug, is a quite wonderful looking chap. These winged neon tubes are part of the...
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