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Underwater… lakes !

Monday, February 8, 2010

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Boy I’ve gotta tell you, my jaw really dropped when I heard this one. There are actual lakes, on the bottom of oceans, especially in the Gulf of Mexico region; they’ve got their own shores and all. The brine water of these lakes actually hosts unique wildlife, creating an absolutely amazing environment. The fact that [...]

Giant squids take to California

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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Yes ladies and gents, giant squids are all over the California beaches. Each of the squids weighs about 40 pounds, but some of them reach 60 and even more than that. I haven’t been able to find out what’s up with them, or why they gathered in such numbers, but according to scientists, this happens [...]

13 countries make a plan to save tigers

Friday, January 29, 2010

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Just a short while ago, I was telling you about the extremely worrying decline of the Siberian tigers (and not just them). It’s obvious that if nothing changes, the odds are they’ll be going extinct, perhaps even during our lifetime (which is the case for numerous mammals, actually. Russia and a dozen other Asian countries [...]

Just in case you didn’t know, there’s a garbage island twice as big as France in the Pacific Ocean

Friday, January 22, 2010

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I was surprised to talk to a bunch of people today and find out they didn’t know about this, so I figured this is definitely something worth knowing. Here’s the deal. There’s a whole lot of garbage floating around; a whole lot ! Some are above the surface, some are below. What happens is they get [...]

Frog takes on snake and bites more than it can chew… well, not really

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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Mother nature sure has some weird whims sometimes. In 15 minutes of vengeance filled chowing, this frog managed to eat the whole snake. Australian Wildlife Rescue Service volunteer Fay Paterson discussed these pictures taken by Ian Hamilton in Australia’s Daily Mercury . He explained that the snake in case was a non-venomous species who often eats [...]

Mammals, half way extinct??

Friday, December 18, 2009

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The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world’s animals, and if things continue to move in the same way, the same thing will happen in North America, according to a University of California, Berkeley, and Pennsylvania State University analysis. Numerous scientists have warned that the direction things are moving in [...]

Ants use bacteria to grow gardens

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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Ants are definitely most amazing creatures, and there’s so much we could learn from them I wouldn’t even know where to start. But even so, there are many things we have yet to find about them. Leaf cutter ants are one of the most remarkable species, and scientists have recently found a new quality (or [...]

Telegraph’s picture of the day shows why you should never teach a lion stuff

Monday, November 16, 2009

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Yeah, that’s a lion trying to open a car door with it’s teeth; picture taken in Johannesburg, South Africa via The Telegraph

Mermaid sightings in Israel lead to 1.000.000$ reward

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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Locals, fishermen and tourists in the Israelian town of Kiryat Yam have been reporting repeated sightings of what they believe to be a mermaid, the mythological creature most often describe as half female, half fish. Shlomo Cohen is one of the first who reported such a sighting. Here’s what he had to say: “I was with friends [...]

Top 10 new animals of 2008

Monday, May 25, 2009

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Every year, the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists announce the top 10 new species described in the past year, and this year was a good one. We have among others the bacteria that lives in hairspray, the oldest known vertebrate (fossilized), an insect 56 cm [...]

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