Tuesday will go down as a red-letter day in the history of the Wisconsin lake sturgeon management program. Not only did Department of Natural Resources fisheries personnel tag a single-day record 565 sturgeon, but they also tagged the largest fish in the history of the program. The 87.5 inch female sturgeon weighed approximately 240 pounds. …
Everyone needs some form of shelter, but not everyone is happy with urban or even suburban lifestyles. Some prefer to live as far away from other people as possible. In the most extreme cases, that means going where no dwellers have gone before. Chris Weller contributed to a previous version of this article. Near the …
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From shadows on a coffee house wall showing all the people who have visited to a penny which was kept in a pocket for 50 years and now has no face, these incredible pictures reveal how objects are worn down with time. Bored Panda has rounded up a gallery of stunning snaps that capture how items …
An urban explorer discovered the rundown remains of the iconic cottage from popular kid’s television show Tots TV – shortly before the owner burned it to the ground. Simon Stokes, 29, stumbled upon the famous cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon in November last year, but has now released the images. Eerie photos show the dilapidated wooden structure …
With the body of a shark, the face of a stingray and a nose resembling a chainsaw, the smalltooth sawfish is the last thing any swimmer wants to see lurking nearby. Named for his distinctive snout, or rostrum, lined with pairs of razor-sharp teeth, the sawfish can grow to more than 18 feet long and may look …
Dangling nonchalantly over the edge of cliffs and skiing down vertical drops – these are hardly your average holiday snaps. But there are travellers who need to push the boat out just that little further when it comes to making memories that count. Some of these photos capture explorers who have pitched their tents to …
Hattusa, on the edge of the central Anatolian and Black Sea regions of Turkey is one of the country’s less visited attractions that was added to the World UNESCO Heritage site list in 1986. Don’t underestimate it’s historical importance, though. While the guidebooks overshadow it with the likes of Istanbul, Ephesus, and Cappadocia, it is …
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Have you ever sat in a state of deep contemplation, and thought to yourself “…oh boy, I wish I was a goat. I wish I was a mountain goat”…? No. Me neither, until now…briefly…while looking at photos of these awesome rock-climbing goats. Goats are goats but these are, and I hazard to use the phrase, …
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A TikTok video captures the moment a sea captain was forced to send a sea lion to its death at the fins of hungry orcas after the animal scrambled onto her boat to avoid the pod near Vancouver Island in Canada’s Pacific coast. ‘An orca looks right up at me,’ @nutabull captioned the video. ‘Where’s my lunch, b****? …
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In her eleven years’ experience as a seasonal crew member on polar expeditions, Eva Westerholm had never had a wildlife encounter like this before. Earlier that day there had been an announcement that we were to embark on an unscheduled excursion. The captain had spotted two pods starboard of the ship. We could not believe …
