This funny image with two of the famous Easter Island statues sitting with their body and folded arms under the ground is not as far from reality as one might think. We all have seen the iconic images of the Easter Island heads – at least on photos and videos. Yet, not many of us know …
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In Sagada, Philippines, the native Igorot tribe have been burying their dead in hanging coffins, attached to the sides of cliffs in the mountains of Luzon, for about 2000 years. According to their beliefs, this brings them closer to their ancestral spirits and would also keep their bodies safe from scavenging animals. Below are some …
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Also called the Devil’s Bridge, Rakotzbrücke in Germany looks like something from a fairy tale. The bridge and its reflection make up a perfect stone circle, regardless where you view it from. Image source: Rough Guides The name “Devil’s Bridge” is due to the fact that in 1860, when it was built, such structures were …
Henrick Carl from Denmark’s Natural History Museum warns that while the pacu isn’t normally dangerous to humans “there have been incidents where some men have had their testicles bitten off” A fish notorious for eating the testicles of unwary male swimmers has been found in European waters for the first time. The pacu, a type …
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Finding Nemo fans immediately recognised the Pacific Football fish after pictures of the “amazingly rare find” were posted on Facebook showing its terrifying “prehistoric” mouth A beachgoer found an alien-like angler fish that lives 3,000ft below sea level washed up “perfectly preserved” on a sandy Californian beach. Finding Nemo fans immediately recognised the Pacific Football fish after pictures …
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Two Aussie mates filmed their battle to catch the beast and put it on YouTube. After no one was sure what it was, a deep sea fishing expert was called in to make sense of it all A humungous ‘giant goldfish’ was reeled in by a deep-sea fisherman, as professionals are left baffled by the …
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It was spotted by sailors on the naval vessel floating in the waters at the Darsena Medicea marina in the town of Portoferraio on the Italian island of Elba on 19th August The creature was identified as an extremely rare Angular roughshark, also sometimes known as a pig-faced shark (Image: @isoladelbaapp/Newsflash) A bizarre deep-sea creature with …
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There are countless mysteries hiding under the surface of the ocean. But despite the fact that a whopping 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, we don’t know all that much about marine life. Over 80 percent of the planet’s oceans remain unexplored even though they represent the vast majority of the biosphere. We might be …
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Humans have been mapping earth since the very beginning. To go where no man has gone before is the dream of many explorers and some of them actually came across a pool deep inside a cave in New Mexico that may have been ‘untouched’ by humans. A team of explorers discovered this pristine water body …
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For the first time, scientists have cloned an endangered U.S. species! Meet black-footed ferret Elizabeth Ann, whose “original version” has been dead for more than 30 years. Image credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service North America’s only ferret species, the black-footed ferret (also known as prairie dog hunter), had been long thought to be extinct …
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