When a baby koala peered out of his mother’s pouch, his keepers thought they must be seeing things.
The furry youngster was the first recorded in Australia’s history to have bright blue eyes.
Frankie was born with blue eyes because of reduced pigmentation
His keepers at Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast promptly named him Frankie after [...]
Well, well, well. Wasn’t 2008 a newsy little year?
Believe it or not, stuff happened that had nothing to do with the presidential election, gas prices or Michael Phelps. Not that you’d have an easy time sifting through all the media debris to find the information that actually meant something.
With so many distractions, you probably didn’t [...]
In a spectacular underwater marine ballet, millions of sardines run in hundreds of shoals, swirling, dancing, and transforming in shape in the annual Sardine Run — an unexplained phenomenon that’s been dubbed “the greatest shoal on earth” — for which they make their way through the cold Atlantic waters off the Cape towards the sub-tropical [...]
Monkeys, Lions and Chimpanzees are animals we often see in the wild or on the Discovery Channel, however many of these exotic animals can be purchased legally within the United States. Living in an acceptable jurisdiction and acquiring the correct permit could turn your home into a modern day zoo. These animals, however do come [...]
The magnificent elephant generally has no natural predators due to their massive size — other than mankind, for which ivory poaching and trophy hunting is a perilous crisis. Recent auctions have proven the industry to be a highly lucrative ‘business’ and may have verily opened the floodgates to massive poaching, leading to annihilation and extinction [...]
On the territory of the southern African kingdom of Lesotho, was found megacities diamond weighing 478 carats. Jewel officers found a London company “Gem Diamond Mining†while working at the mine Letsen.
While working at its mine Letsen miners British company found stone, which was the 20 th largest ever found diamonds.
Want to take a sneak [...]
In Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859) and in his later works, he referred to several “vestiges” in human anatomy that were left over from the course of evolution. These vestigial organs, Darwin argued, are evidence of evolution and represent a function that was once necessary for survival, but over time that function [...]
The science of weather is a fascinating one; but even more so are the flukes and irregularities that can occur within our world. This is a list of 20 of the most amazing and unusual of those anomalies.
