Well, actually three buffaloes appear to have escaped from a pen! Police say residents of a west-side neighbourhood called to report buffaloes standing in the street, saying they didn’t know what to do. Two officers were dispatched to the scene Monday, and used a flashlight to herd the animals back to a pen from which they appeared to have escaped. A man showed up at the pen saying he was in charge of the buffaloes and thanked the policemen [...]
The origin of Claws has been discovered in a 390 million year old fossil from the famous Hunsrück Slate quarry near Bundenbach in Germany. A missing link in the evolution of the front claw of living scorpions and horseshoe crabs was identified with the discovery of a 390 million-year-old fossil by researchers at Yale and the University of Bonn, Germany. The specimen, named Schinderhannes bartelsi, was found fossilized in slate from a quarry near Bundenbach in Germany, a site that [...]
We are already in February, so I thought it was about time I posted a few links to some the most popular stories/articles from 2008. Below is the Top 5 most viewed stories. I’ll post another short list of the most commented and perhaps even the least viewed stories soon. 4 new Thylacine sightings in 3 months! Four sightings of one of the world’s most fabled creatures have been reported to an independent researcher [...]
A national big cat group has said it is confident the animals are roaming wild in Derbyshire after the discovery of a paw print on farmland. Wirksworth farmer Peter Ward said he found the three-inch print after his cattle had been frightened last month. Nigel Spencer, from Big Cats in Britain, said: “It could be a small puma or black leopard or even a lynx.” A Defra spokesman said: “Any sightings of exotic wild animals [...]
Exciting news, Jaguars, the largest cat in the Americas has been photographed living in the heart of Mexico, scientists say. Three photographs of a male jaguar and large number of faeces samples are the first known evidence of the predator since the early 1900s. Jaguars have disappeared from much of Mexico as humans have chopped down most of their natural habitat and have sometimes killed the animals for the illegal wildlife trade. Concerned that the big cat was locally extinct, an expedition [...]
Don’t water your lawn; paint it This is true, I’m not making it up – there are several companies (online) that sell grass paint. Some companies (see video link) will even come out to your house and paint your lawn for you. I’ve heard some weird and wonderful things in my time, but I can’t really get my head around this - surely if the grass is dull and yellow, it’s because it’s dying and needs watering – not painting! [...]
An unidentified flying object photographed over Bournemouth has been dubbed a military Thunderbird! The photograph, taken by professional photographer Mark Wild, has been likened to the space ship Thunderbird 3 as it appears to be a similar orange/red colour. The picture has caused quite a stir amongst UFO experts, as it was taken during the day and appears to show the structure of the object, which is a classic UFO shape. This is in contrast to the usual UFO photos, which are normally taken at [...]
Below is short list of some of the most endangered mammals on this planet. Some are so rare that they have already been classed as extinct! It’s difficult to stop progress, especially in developing countries, but a much greater understanding of the environment and the wildlife that lives around us needs to happen NOW, before any more species disappear. Once they have gone, that is it, we will never see them again! 1. Yangtze River [...]
A strange warehouse, 36 feet under ground and containing 30 Egyptian mummies has been found at the vast necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo. The tomb is thought to be about 2,600 years old and from the 26th dynasty, which was Egypt’s last independent kingdom before it was overthrown by the Persians. The new tomb was announced by Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and contains 8 mummies in stone coffins, or sarcophagi and another 22 mummies set in [...]
Mega-snake fossil found in Colombia The fossilised remains of the world’s largest snake, a 15-metre, one tonne behemoth that included crocodiles among its favourite foods, have been found in a coal mine in northern Colombia. Titanoboa - about the length of a bus, lived in the rainforest of north-east Colombia 58-60 million years ago. The snake was so wide it would have reached up to a person’s hips, say researchers, who have estimated that it weighed more [...]
