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 Alien-looking shrimp of the desert appear in Central Australia after flooding rains ... Freak rain in Australia’s outback has produced an outlandish sight: millions of shrimps wriggling across what are normally bone-dry deserts. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The crustaceans, which can grow to 7.5cm (3in) long, are filling desert pools and puddles after rains that come once in every 50 years. They were so severe that Uluru, near Alice Springs, was closed to tourists and wide areas of the outback were flooded. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The shield shrimp, Triops australiensis – is a prehistoric marine creature with a remarkable life cycle that enables it to survive in some of the world’s harshest environments. Its eggs can endure for at least a decade without moisture, being blown across deserts or buried beneath them. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Their morphology has not changed the basic features from the times of the Triassic period - it was 220-230 million years ago. At that time only there were dinosaurs, flowering plants did not exist, and in the world was the only continent - Pangaea. |
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 A wild orangutan shows off her incredible sawing skills ... The incredible new footage reveals a female great ape using a saw to skilfully divide a branch in two. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The talented ape uses her right hand to hold the tool and her feet to grip the tree branch like a vice. She even blows away the sawdust to inspect her work like a true craftsman. The scenes were filmed in Borneo as part of the UK BBC One series 'Spy In The Wild', which features eerily realistic robots disguised as a series of different animals. |
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'World's bravest duck' goes for a swim with tiger ... Dicing with death seems to be all part of the game for this duck - who has now been dubbed the 'world's bravest'. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] And it's all because he decided to take a dip in the pool with a rather terrifying swimming buddy - a huge tiger. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] In the clip, the duck brazenly swims in circles around the pool, with the tiger stalking just inches behind him. But this bird doesn't seem to be concerned that the huge predator is hot on his tail, and simply |
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A strange ocurrence in cold weather.
This is named ice spikes ;it appears in a bird bath or another outdoors water pool. When the water freezes on top then pressure inside causes a spike to grow as an icicle but to grow up not down. Weird. Here are example photographs to show some [Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] [Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] [Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] [Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] [Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] [Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] [Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] [Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] |
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Someone's made a watch out of cheese and it's selling for nearly £1 million ... The moon isn't made of cheese, but this Swiss watch is. Part of it, anyway. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Its outer casing, which encircles the abstract red and white flag Swiss in the centre, is made from a cheese called Vacherin Mont d'Or medaille d'or. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The cheese is superb melted on top of crumpets. It's made in winter in a small Swiss village. For the watch, it's been fortified with resin to withstand use and age. Swiss watchmaker H.Moser crafted the timepiece as a protest against new legislation. It's a satirical take on new rules placed on the country who use the 'Swiss made' moniker. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The dial is smoked red, with the four white lacquered indexes. They each indicate four quarters of an hour. And the detail far surpasses the watch and name itself – even the price tag pays homage to Switzerland's watchmaking roots. The price in francs, 1,081,291, is a reference to the date the Swiss Confederation was set up, back on August 1 1291. |
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 Colorado house cat defends home from curious bobcat ... Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A house cat in Colorado bravely defended his home from a curious bobcat who was peeking through a window. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Erik Fallenius shared video of his cat Waffle as he attempted to scare off a bobcat that was creeping around his sliding glass door. "If it wasn't for the damn glass I'd shred you for looking at me that way!" Fallenius wrote. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Waffle let out a series of long meows while standing on his hind legs to fiercely swat at the outdoor intruder. He also followed the bobcat through an elevated window as he reiterated that it was not welcome at his home. The bobcat remained largely unfazed throughout the encounter until Waffle appeared to grow weary of the battle and laid calmly near the door. |
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Intelligent cat guesses which cup the ball is hidden under ... [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] In a video posted on Instagram, a cat named Snow has been viewed almost 900,000 times guessing correctly which plastic cup a ball was hidden under. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Even if Snow complicate the task, and instead of the usual three cups take four or even five, the animal did not bother, and even not particularly thinking, will give you the correct option. |
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Beautiful drone footage of ducks crowding around small break in frozen lake. Stunning aerial footage has emerged from Balaton, Hungary of hundreds of ducks on a frozen lake. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Filmed from a drone this week, the clip captures the birds as they crowd around a small break in the vast expanse of ice. You can see the huge number of birds that are fun splashing in the water, and then resting on icy shores of its own small "lake" |
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 Skateboarding dog shreds half pipe at British skate park ... A proud dog owner in Britain shared video of his talented canine shredding the half pipe on a skateboard at the local skate park. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The dog rolls down the ramp and soon loses his balance, but is able to get back on and push off with his own legs. The video, posted to YouTube by Ziggy Trixx, shows Ziggy the pit bull sporting a stylish hooded vest as he hops onto his skateboard. Ziggy shows he can push his paws and also take off from a running start. He has some trouble staying on the board, but always makes a speedy recovery. |
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Whenever He goes diving, this shark comes to cuddle with Him. This has been going on for 7 Years. Meet Rick Anderson, an Australian man who calls a female Port Jackson shark his friend. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] He says she comes to cuddle with him whenever she sees him. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] “I started playing with her about seven years ago when she was just a pup about 6 inches long” [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] “I approached her carefully so as not to spook her, then began to gently pat her” [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] “Over the following seasons, she’d recognize me and would swim up to me for a pat and cuddle” [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] |
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The eerily-human moment a group of monkeys mourn the death of a robot baby... Monkeys mourn robot baby in groundbreaking new BBC show,The eerily-human moment a group of monkeys mourn the death of a robot baby that they think is one of their own. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] In a new BBC show, Spy In The Wild, the monkeys gather around the artificial creature and appear to go into a state of grief. They gather around the baby, hush their chatter and hug each other in what appears to be a show of grief. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] A troop of monkeys are seen grieving for a stuffed robot after they accidentally dropped it and it broke. |
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Vietnamese circus duo smash record for most stairs climbed with a person on the head ... Two unfathomably-strong Vietnamese brothers have smashed the record for the Most consecutive stairs climbed while balancing a person on the head in Girona, Spain. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Circus duo Giang Quoc Nghiep and Giang Quoc Co conquered the 90 stairs of Saint Mary's Cathedral while balancing head-to-head. In an extraordinary display of core strength and stability, one man walks up the steps while the other holds himself upside-down on top of his head. The professional performers more than tripled the previous record of 25 stairs that was set by Tang Tao and Su Zengxian (China) on the set of CCTV-Guinness World Records Special back in 2014. Mayor of Girona Marta Madrenas attended the event and congratulated the Giang brothers following their successful Guinness World Records attempt. |
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Indulging in too much alcohol consumption can really get some people into right fucked up states and awkward situations. A few here for your entertainment
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Break Free ... This incredibly moving Adidas commercial created by 26-year-old student filmmaker, Eugen Merher, may well have won the Internet for 2017. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The 1m:40s commercial revolves around an elderly former German marathon runner. He’s spending a monotonous existence in a rather unlovely retirement home, until one day he finds his old battered Adidas trainers, and decides to relive his younger years by taking them for a run. The retirement home repeatedly try to quash his quests for freedom, but the end of the advert will see you stand up and cheer. Or cry. Or both. “We tried sending it to "Adidas" communications department but they didn’t really react,” Eugen told The Huffington Post. Anyway, we think Adidas made a mistake in doing so, and after watching the ad again, we’ve got something in our eye… |
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Great-grandma's St. Anthony figurine turns out to be 'Lord of the Rings' elf ... FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Brazilian great-grandmother was shocked to discover the St.Anthony figurine she had been praying to every day was actually Elrond from The Lord of the Rings. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Gabriela Brandao of Florianopolis said in a Facebook post something seemed odd about the St. Anthony figurine that her daughter's great-grandmother has been praying to every day. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Brandao did some research online and found an identical figure -- Elrond, the character played by Hugo Weaving in The Lord of the Rings films. "We tried to explain right away but she didn't understand at first," Brandao told Buzzfeed. "The next day we explained again and she understood and we got her a new figure of Saint Anthony." Brandao's Dec. 30 post dubbed her story "the funniest discovery of 2016." |
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