The wolffish has the face only a mother could love, but it’s surprisingly affectionate. And it produces antifreeze. Could be a nightmare for a kid, but these guys actually make friends with humans. Source The only thing the Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus) has common with wolves is that it has sharp teeth and a strong …
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A new experiment to find out what kind of life exists on the seafloor has raised the possibility of a truly gigantic animal lurking in the dark depths of the ocean. Is it a huge shark or a giant squid? Or something we don’t even have a name for? The Great Gator Experiment involved sinking …
Life gave a bunch of scientists in Alaska a frozen 50,000-year-old bison, and they decided to make dinner out of it. Blue Babe, the 50,000-Year-Old Bison, in all its glory before being made into a stew. Image credit: UA Museum of the North On a night in 1984, a handful of select guests gathered at …
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This giant snail is six times the size of a garden snail: it can even grow as long as a human arm from hand to elbow! Not your ordinary garden snail. Image credit: premedito The Giant African Land Snail is the largest among all land snails in the world (the common name actually refers to …
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An enormous representative of the extinct dragonfly-like order of griffinflies is the largest known insect species to have ever lived on Earth. Life-size model of the Permian griffinfly Meganeura. Image credit: Gene McCarthy The largest living insect species we know today are the atlas moth (which sport the largest wings by surface area at 160 …
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Two-headed animals? Yeah, they show up in mythology, and in the movies, and we’ve heard a weird thing or two after nuclear disasters like Chernobyl, but that’s it, isn’t it? Well, no. Apparently, more and more two-headed sharks are born all over the world, and scientists are only guessing why. In 2008, longline fisherman Christopher …
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This monstrous little fish is a notorious hunter: with the help of its large teeth and balloon-like stomach, it can swallow fish up to 10 times its size. The black swallower can eat much larger prey due to its distensible stomach. Image source: Brutal_deluxe The black swallower (Chiasmodon niger) is a deep-sea fish that belongs …
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A photo of a young woman and gorilla watching videos of baby gorillas at the Louisville Zoo in the US state recently made rounds on the Internet, garnering an extreme amount of comments. What you see in the picture is actually happening more and more in zoos around the world, raising the question: could this …
Zookepers at Guangzhou Zoo in China have denied giving a male lion ‘straight bangs’ after some photos of the eccentric hairdo went viral on China’s Weibo platform. Image credit: Guangzhou Zoo/Weibo Often dubbed the King of the Jungle, the lion owes a lot of its animal kingdom prowess to the sleek-looking manes of males. Apparently, …
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Miners of the Klondike gold fields probably didn’t expect to make such a rare and precious discovery. Indeed, it’s pure gold! This is the first perfectly preserved woolly mammoth in North-America. Image credit: Yukon Government The incredible find was uncovered from below the Eureka Creek while miners were excavating through permafrost in Canada’s Yukon territory. …
