Next time you’re crammed in the middle seat on a plane counting down the hours, be thankful you’re not sharing the couch with 80 birds. Big ones. In the United Arab Emirates, it can very much happen though. A member of the Saudi Arabian royal family reportedly purchased individual seats for all 80 of his …
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When a giant wood moth, the heaviest of all known moths, appeared on the side of a school building in Queensland, Australia, the children were enthralled – even though they were used to a diverse local wildlife. This giant wood moth was found at Mount Cotton state school in Queensland by builders. While not uncommon, …
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Think your job is painful? Try spending a workday with Justin Schmidt, father of the Schmidt sting pain index. Just a normal day on the job for Justin Schmidt, who created the Schmidt sting pain index. Image credit: Justin Schmidt via Guiness World Records While most of us try to avoid insect stings at all …
What’s the most dangerous pet you’ve ever had? Whatever it is, it sure doesn’t even come close to a five-meter, 500-kilogram crocodile! Image credit: Adam C. Smith Photography Yet, this is exactly the pet this Costa Rica man, Gilberto Shedden, ended up with. He swam with the gigantic and scary-looking crocodile called Pocho in the …
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Is hatching an abandoned parakeet egg possible at all? Well, check this out. As if raising an abandoned kitten or puppy wasn’t difficult enough, a man decided to rescue and hatch a tiny parakeet egg and then take care of the little one coming out of it, boredpanda reports. A video recently posted by the …
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Also known as the Living Fossil, this rare species of deep-sea shark is the only extant representative of the Mitsukurinidae family which dates back over 125-million years. A living fossil. Photo: Dianne Bray The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) has many peculiar characteristics that help to describe precisely what the creature is like. It has a …
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The largest creatures on earth have a tendency to blow up when washed ashore, which can be rather nasty. A bloated whale washed ashore in Namibia. Image credits: Free pictures for conservation / CCsearch, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 This video of an exploding whale was captured in the Faroe Islands back in 2013. As a marine …
The cassowary is one of the most interesting bird species. Mostly known as the most dangerous bird on the planet. The cassowary is a type of flightless bird (ratite) that belongs to the order of Casuariiformes. These long-legged, large birds are cousins to the emus and have 3 subspecies, the most common being the southern …
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The Knysna turaco (Tauraco corythaix), or, in South Africa, Knysna loerie, is a large turaco, one of a group of African musophagidae birds. It is a resident breeder in the mature evergreen forests of southern and eastern South Africa, and Swaziland. It was formerly sometimes considered to be a subspecies of the green turaco of …
Beautiful Colours Of Knysna Turaco Just Like A Rainbow Read More »
I’ve never thought of pigeons as anything more than fairly dull and ubiquitous creatures that leave a lot of poop behind. But some people are really into these creatures – and they come in a variety of shapes and colors, partly because they may be one of the first domesticated birds. In fact, people have …
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