Amazing tiny frogs (Paedophryne amauensis) from Papua New Guinea – the smallest is about 7mm long (0.27 inches)… crazy in miniature!
Zoology
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?
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!
A 40ft sperm whale was washed up dead on a beach near Old Hunstanton, Norfolk UK. It is believed the whale was alreadt dead before being washed ashore by the high tide.
Large crowds gathered to see the whale, which is near the high tide mark.
The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbour has announced that Cheetah the chimpanzee from the Tarzan movies of the 1930s has died at the age of 80.
An electric-blue lobster has been saved from the dinner table after being spotted at fish market.
Fishmonger Rex Goldsmith thought the lobster was too nice to eat, so bought it and handed it over to researchers at the Natural History Museum, it will soon be on display at the London Aquarium.
Crazy, evolution has taken a new twist as fishermen in Argentina catch a real three-eyed Blinky — aka the three-eyed fish from the Simpsons! Ironically it was also caught in a lake that takes waist water form a Nuclear Power plant!
A massive crocodile weighing one tonne has been caught by villagers in a remote area of the Philippines. At 21ft (6.4m), it is thought to be one of the biggest ever caught alive.
A rare alligator has been found alive inside a dustbin in China.
The Yangtze Alligator or Chinese Alligator is thought to have been dumped by smugglers, or possibly escaped from a wildlife park.
The crew and researchers onboard a routine cetacean research survey in Scotland were treated to an encounter with a Leatherback Turtle.
While crossing the Minch on Sunday 5th June, between Skye and Harris, a massive Leatherback turtle, measuring about 1.5 metres, was spotted to the delight of all onboard.
