Most Stunning Animal Eyes
Have you ever been mesmerized by eyes before? Well prepare for more because here is a list of creatures that perhaps has the most amazing eyes in the whole animal kingdom. I’ll let the pictures do the talking.
Owls
Did you know owls’ eyes are fixed in their sockets? Which means their eye movements within their sockets [...]
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Horse Fight In China
Chinese spectators smile sadistically at the inhumane spectacle of two beautiful horses savagely attacking one another.
With ears back, eyes rolling and nostrils flared in fury, the enraged horses pummel each other with their hooves and bite and head-butt each other in a horrifying fight, sometimes to the death.
Men, women and children watch, and a roar [...]
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4 Huge Explosions Nobody Could Explain
Tunguska – Thousands of square kilometres of trees were burned
In the early morning of 30 June, 1908, witnesses told of a gigantic explosion and blinding flash. Thousands of square kilometres of trees were burned and flattened.
Scientists have always suspected that an incoming comet or asteroid lay behind the event – but no impact crater was [...]
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Most Painful Animal Bite
‘Becoming a man’ in the Setere-Mawe society means intentionally letting yourself get stung by these ants. Not just by one but by hundreds of them at once. And not just on one occasion. There, you are not a man until you have done this ritual twenty times.
Twenty times wearing a pair of gloves each laced [...]
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Most Fascinating Tombs in the World
Catacombs of Paris
Officially called les carrières de Paris or “the quarries of Paris,” the Catacombs of Paris is a network of underground tunnels and rooms that used to be Roman-era limestone quarries.
In the late 1700s, Paris was suffering from diseases caused by improper burials and mass graves in church cemeteries. Local authorities decided that they [...]
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Dancing Jellyfish
Japanese Jellyfish Are Positively Glowing
Most of these shots were taken in Osaka Aquarium, Japan.
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Brazilian Caves
ABSTRACT
Toca da Boa Vista, the longest known cave in the Southern Hemisphere with 84 km of mapped passages, is one of the most important speleological and palaeontological sites in Brazil. Together with the neighbouring caves of Toca da Barriguda, Toca do Calor de Cima, Toca do Pitú and Toca do Morrinho, they represent a geological [...]
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The Door To Hell
The Door to Hell, as locals call it, is situated near the small town of Darvaz in Uzbekistan. Thirty-five years ago, geologists were drilling for gas when then encountered a very large cavern [...]
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Top 10 World Strange Creatures
10. “Strange Owl” Seen in Wild for First Time
A tiny bird so rare and unusual that its scientific name means “strange owl” was spotted for the first time in the wild, scientists announced on March 22, 2007.
Conservationists working in Peru got their first natural glimpse of the long-whiskered owlet in February 2007 while working [...]
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Everything about Koalas
Latin name:
Phascolarctos cinereus
(Greek: phaskolos means pouch; arktos means bear. Latin: cinereus means ash-colored.)
Koalas are marsupials, females having a pouch in which their young first develop. Their pouch faces the rear and has a drawstringlike muscle that [...]
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Cloverfield Monster Leaked [PIC]
This is suposedly a leaked image showing the Monster in the new J.J. Abrams produced film Cloverfield.
It looks like a whale. Could this be it?
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Book on life: the book that grows a plant
Eric Zhang embeded some industrial design elements in this prose florilegium which name is “book on life”. People can plant whatever they like in the left side of the book and watch it grow. During this process readers do not only learn the meaning of life but they create life themselves.
Eight small LED lights are [...]
