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