There is an extraordinary tree in Kalaloch beach, within Olympic National Park in Washington, that some people call “the tree of life” because of the miraculous way it seems to be hanging on to life when it should have been dead years ago. The tree is located just north of Kalaloch Lodge, near the Kalaloch …
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About 100 km south-east of Berlin in the State of Brandenburg, lies the beautiful Spreewald Biosphere Reserve. This low-lying area in which the river Spree meanders in hundreds of small waterways through meadows and unspoiled forests is one of Germany’s most beautiful and greenest holiday destinations. Like most of Brandenburg, this region was sculpted during …
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Photos of an unusually-tall cactus growing on the side of a three-storey building in Tokyo, Japan, have been doing the rounds on social media, raising the question: ‘is this the world’s tallest cactus?’ Last Wednesday, Japanese Twitter user =Yang= (@0okome0) posted a bunch of intriguing photos of a building he had spotted in Takinogawa, Tokyo Metropolitan Area. …
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Photos of a vibrantly-colored fish that looks too flashy to be real have gone viral on Japanese social media, prompting many to ask if it was the result of too much digital editing. Last Friday, popular YouTube channel Fishing Gang Azusa took to Twitter to post a very intriguing picture of their latest catch – a flashy …
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Two fishermen got the shock of their lives when they stumbled across a huge sunfish washed up on a deserted beach. They found the creature 25km east of the River Murray mouth – a popular fishing and holiday destination in South Australia. Supervisor Steven Jones spotted it while out with his fishing team at of Goolwa …
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Catfish are generally brown with dark spots, but a 15-year-old boy fishing in Tennessee had a catch of a lifetime when he hooked one that is all-white. Edwards Tarumianz reeled in a giant fish on the morning of June 28, but he and the rest of the crew were more impressed by the catfish’s stunning …
A local fisherman in Cambodia has captured a true river monster that scientists believe is the world’s largest freshwater fish. Moul Thun, 42, hooked a massive stingray that weighs 661 pounds and measures 13-feet-long, breaking the previous record of a catfish, discovered in Thailand in 2005, which clocked in at 646 pounds. The stingray, nicknamed ‘Boramy’ or ‘full moon’ …
A fisherman has reeled a ‘weird’ and ‘dinosaur-like’ creature with large bulbous eyes completely out of proportion to its tiny body. Oscar Lundahl, 19, was trying to catch blue halibut when he found the unusual fish on the end of his line off the coast of Andoya in Norway. He had four hooks on one …
A woman certainly bagged the catch of the day when she reeled in a fish with two mouths on an outing on a lake in upstate New York. Debbie Geddes was fishing with her husband on Lake Champlain last week and landed the impressive haul. She eventually let the fish go, but not before taking …
A beachcomber discovered a rare giant squid on the shore of South Africa last week.Jam Press/@alipaulus You’ve got to be squidding. A beachcomber made the discovery of a lifetime after happening across an extremely rare giant squid on the shore of South Africa last week. She documented her one-of-a-kind find in a series of photos currently …
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