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Cattle producers in Central Australia say the fly population has exploded in the past few months, making working outside almost unbearable!

Cattle producers in Central Australia say the fly population has exploded in the past few months, making working outside almost unbearable — the air is so think with flies: you can’t talk or open your mouth, you have to cover your ears in case they get in your ear hole!

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‘About ten trillion of the bloody things’ Chris Nott from Alcoota Station, about 110…

Happy Birthday #Hubble! 🎂 It's 30 years ago that the Hubble Space Telescope (#HST) was launched!

Happy Birthday Hubble Space Telescope! 🎂

It’s 30 years ago that the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched!

Launched into low Earth orbit on 24th April 1990 on Space Shuttle Discovery (during the STS-31 mission), HST remains in operation and is one of the largest and most versatile space telescopes. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble

Hubble seen from from…

Rhino helps with #stayathome and #lockdown in Nepal!

As the global lockdown continues, authorities are patrolling the streets to ensure people stay home! However, in Nepal one particularly intimidating volunteer has offered their services!

Source: @ParveenKaswan

The video shared by Indian Forest Services officer Parveen Kaswanshows a mostly-deserted street in Nepal, near the Chitwan National Park. The undated video shows a cumbersome #rhino…

Skunk Apes are Bigfoot-like creatures that typically reside in Florida and are known for their foul smell. They have unique footprints compared to other Bigfoot-type creatures around the country. Skunk Ape prints typically have 5 toes but prints with 4 or even 3 toes have been reported.

Skunk Apre cast – The Gevaudan’s beast

The prints are anywhere from 8 to 20 inches in length. 3 or 4…

Ex-Military, NASA Veterans Form new #UFO Research Group! ~ UAP EXPEDITIONS ORGANIZATION was registered on 30th August 2019 by Kevin Day.

There are many UFO and Unidentified Object research groups around the world, some good and some bad ~ but now a new group has been formed by ex-Military and NASA veterans ~ backed by Silicon Valley investors!

Still from the Nimitz UFO Incident, an oval object about the size of a commercial plane being chased by two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets off the coast of San Diego in 2004

A new nonprofit…

Divers exploring of a fjord in Orstafjord Norway came across an alien-like egg sac! . #squid #alien #eggsac

Divers exploring the depths of a fjord in Orstafjord Norway came across an alien blob. The video has captivated the internet with thousands of views.

Diver Ronald Raasch with the research vessel REV Ocean was exploring the site of a WWII shipwreck in early October. As a group of divers returned to the boat, Raasch and…

In the 1930s, Douglas Herrick and his brother, hunters with taxidermy skills, popularized the American jackalope by grafting deer antlers onto a jackrabbit carcass and selling the combination to a local hotel in Douglas, Wyoming. Thereafter, they made and sold many similar jackalopes to a retail outlet in South Dakota, and another taxidermist continues to manufacture the horned rabbits in the 21st century.

Rabbit with Shope papilloma virus infection

Plate XLVII of Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia showing a horned hare

Jackalope statue outside of Wall Drug in South Dakota

Jackalope taxidermy mount in a restaurant in Kansas

References to horned rabbits may originate in sightings of rabbits affected by the Shope papilloma virus, named for Richard E. Shope, M.D., who described it in a scientific journal in 1933. Shope initially examined wild cottontail rabbits that had been shot by hunters in Iowa and later examined wild rabbits from Kansas. They had “numerous horn-like protuberances on the skin over various parts of their bodies. The animals were referred to popularly as ‘horned’ or ‘warty’ rabbits.”

Legends about horned rabbits also occur in Asia and Africa as well as Europe, and researchers suspect the changes induced by the virus might underlie at least some of those tales.

Folklorists see the jackalope as one of a group of fabled creatures common to American culture since Colonial days. These appear in tall tales about hodags, giant turtles, Bigfoot, and many other mysterious beasts and in novels like Moby-Dick. The tales lend themselves to comic hoaxing by entrepreneurs who seek attention for their products, their persons, or their towns

Read more: The Truth Behind the Jackalope and Those Who Hunt the Elusive Warrior Rabbit Wikipedia: Jackalope

The bird, thought to have been just days or weeks old when it was engulfed in tree resin, belonged to a group of birds called enantiornithes, which became extinct 65 million years ago alongside dinosaurs.

Preserved feathers show that the hatchling died during its first feather molt, indicating that it was entombed in amber within the first days or weeks of its life.

Highlights from ScienceDirect Article

We report on the most complete bird preserved encased in Amber uncovered to date, including most of the skull and neck, a partial wing and hindlimb, and soft tissue of the tail, the morphologies of which refer this specimen to the Enantiornithes.

The proportions of the bird and morphology of the plumage indicate a very young individual, adding the mounting data that the Enantiornithes were highly precocial; however, the scarcity of body feathers represents a distinct departure from living precocial birds.

The plumage includes filamentous body feathers that resemble proto-feathers, scutellae with distal bristle-structures, mature remiges, and erupting ornamental rectrices, revealing an unexpected diversity of primitive and derived feather morphotypes present in the plumage of early birds.

Source: New York Post, National Geographic, ScienceDirect

With ambient ocean music playing in the background, this video will not only amaze your eyes, but you will somehow get lost in the ocean yourself, even if only for two minutes. The Puerto Rico Trench reaches a maximum depth of 28,373 feet, and every foot of it provides amazing insight on the ecosystems that live beneath the ocean’s tides.

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The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The oceanic trench is associated with a complex transition between the Lesser Antilles subduction zone to the south and the major transform fault zone or plate boundary, which extends west between Cuba and Hispaniola through the Cayman Trench to the coast of Central America. The trench is 800 kilometres (497 mi) long and has a maximum depth of 8,648 metres (28,373 ft) or 5.373 miles at Milwaukee Deep, which is the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean and the deepest point not in the Pacific Ocean.

Scientific studies have concluded that an earthquake occurring along this fault zone could generate a significant tsunami. The island of Puerto Rico which lies immediately to the south of the fault zone and the trench, suffered a destructive tsunami soon after the 1918 San Fermín earthquake.

Source: Wikipedia

Six-Eyed Sand Spider — one of a handful of spiders whose venom is potentially lethal, or at least extremely painful!

The Six-Eyed Sand Spider (Sicarius hahni) is one of the few arachnid species that the internet seems to have generally taken a liking to, against widespread misinformation about the potency of spider bites. Ironically, S. hahni is also one of the handful of spiders whose venom is potentially lethal, or at least extremely painful! There is, however, no solid evidence of a bite to any human. In…

Video: Giant deep sea squid swims in to Japan bay on Christmas Eve

Giant deep sea squid swims in to Japan bay on Christmas Eve A giant squid was spotted on Christmas Eve in Japan’s Toyama Bay, roughly 344 kilometres (213 miles) northwest of Tokyo. The bay is known for being a breeding ground for hordes of luminous firefly squid, but it’s a rare sight to see a giant squid swimming this close to shore according to diving shop owner Akinobu Kimura, speaking to CNN.

Amazing New highest-resolution photos of Pluto

These are the highest-resolution photos of Pluto ever taken NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades. Each week the piano-sized New Horizons spacecraft transmits data stored on its digital recorders from its flight through the Pluto system on…

Video: Mount Etna spectacular erupts sending plumes of larva, fire & Cloud Lightning.

Mount Etna has erupted with spectacular plumes of larva, fire and cloud lightning known as “dirty thunderstorm” — caused when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the volcanic plume collide and produce static charges. #Etna 's eruption, the only active vulcano in Europe, lights up Sicily skies https://t.co/9QIfGmWvLJ pic.twitter.com/4fg13zV6uy — Alberto Sciretti (@InEsplorazione) December 3,…