Some Turtles Age So Slowly They Don’t Appear To Age At All
Ageing is a reality of life, except apparently for turtles. Several turtle species exhibit relatively low senescence, which is what we properly refer to as…
Plants and Animals
Record-Breaking 18-Foot Whopper Is Heaviest Burmese Python Ever Caught In the US
According to National Geographic, the biggest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida has been discovered. It is almost 5 meters (nearly 18 feet) long from…
Megalodon Sat Higher Up the Food Chain than Any Other Ocean Predator Ever
Otodus megalodon, often known as the megalodon or megatooth shark, was a powerful animal that formerly swam in the ancient waters. They could grow to…
Face Mites’ Humble Lifestyles Have Pushed Their Penises to Strange Places
Mites that live on almost every human’s face feed on the sebum that cells produce. They scurry through human hair follicles for nightly mating marathons,…
Biggest Freshwater Fish Ever Recorded Found In Cambodia’s Mekong River
The world’s largest freshwater fish, a massive stingray the size of a grand piano, has been caught and released in northeast Cambodia’s Mekong River. Following…
Fossilized Egg inside an Egg Is a First for Dinosaurs and Reptiles
Ovum-in-ovo, or an egg inside an egg, is a phenomenon that occasionally occurs in birds such as chickens, whose specialized uteruses are more susceptible to…
Tiny White Reptile Is First Ever Report Of an Albino Giant Galápagos Tortoise
An albino Galápagos giant tortoise has astounded zookeepers in Servion, Switzerland, who claim that such a creature has never been seen in the wild or…
Thai Farmers Are Feeding Their Chickens Cannabis to Cut Antibiotic Use
Farmers in Thailand have begun giving cannabis to their hens in an effort to wean them off antibiotics. As initially reported by The Nation Thailand,…
A New Population of Polar Bears Discovered With Unusual Hunting Behavior
According to research published today in the journal Science, a new population of polar bears has been identified in an ice-free area of Southeast Greenland.…
Ancient Amphibian “Death Ditch” Could Have Been the Result of a Prehistoric Frog Tragedy
8,000 old toad and frog bones discovered in a ditch during an excavation along the route of a new road in Cambridge, UK, have scientists…
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