Video: Alien or Jellyfish? Deep-Sea Monster Mystery!

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A strange unknown creature caught on video at a depth of 5000 feet (1,500 meters) has sparked all sorts of crazy suggestions… is it an Alien or just an unknown jellyfish? Stranger still, the location of the video is currently unknown!

Dead Baby Fox

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I found a dead baby fox while walking my dog today. There was an adult fox nearby which I am guessing was its mother. It couldn’t have been very old as it still had its eyes closed, but it had obviously been dead a while as it was completely cold. I’m guessing it’s mother had been moving it to a new den, when something must have disturbed her — hopefully she had more cubs and [...]

Video: MorpHex Sphere Hexapod Robot

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Norwegian engineer Kåre Halvorsen built this robot sphere in his spare time, with six retractable, expanding legs that let it dance when it’s not rolling.

The main goal of this project was to make a hexapod robot that could transform into a sphere shape and back. In “sphere mode” the robot should be able to roll freely like a ball.

Video: Meteor seen across Britain, 3rd March 2012

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A huge meteor was seen across most of Britain last night (Saturday 3rd March 2012) and sparked concerns that a plane had crashed…

We had a report last night saving a strange light had been seen over Stockport: “just seen what i first thought was a comet across the sky over stockport. i was on the porch when i saw this circular object traveling at a amazing rate of knots from north to south”…

New species of legless amphibians found in India

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A team of scientists led by University of Delhi has discovered an entirely NEW FAMILY of legless amphibians in India and named it Chikilidae.

The new family of tailless burrowing caecilians was described based on differences in external and internal appearance compared to the nine families of legless amphibians already known. Scientists performed DNA analysis of the specimens and confirmed that it is an entirely new family

Video: Giant crustacean found in deepest ocean

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A huge crustacean called ‘supergiant’ has been found lurking 7km down in the waters off the coast of New Zealand.

It was found in the Kermadec Trench, and is more than 10 times bigger than normal!

World’s smallest frog discovered

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Amazing tiny frogs (Paedophryne amauensis) from Papua New Guinea – the smallest is about 7mm long (0.27 inches)… crazy in miniature!

Stephen Hawking at 70

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Amazing, the theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking turns 70 this weekend (Sunday 8th January), famous for writing the bestseller A Brief History of Time and numerous other books, including his latest The Grand Design. Below are a couple of short videos, one about M-theory and why such a theory would make God Unnecessary, and the second is 10 intriguing questions from Time. More great links: Stephen Hawking at 70: Fellow scientists pay tribute As [...]

Top 10 Weird Stories from 2011

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It’s that time of year again!
Below is a round up of the 10 most viewed posts on Cryptoworld over the last year. UFOs and Thylacines are still hot topics — what will be hot for 2012?

Video: Groomed by Wild Mountain Gorillas!

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This is a pretty amazing video of a man being touched and groomed by Wild Mountain Gorilla in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

The video shows wild mountain gorillas visiting an ecotourism tented camp, the guy ‘John’ is speechless as the baby gorillas touch him and it also looks like one of them kisses him on the cheek!