One little girl has a sea lion wrapped around her tiny finger. Or at least that’s what it looks like in a popular video, in which a young girl is seen running back and forth along the sea lion wall enclosure at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C. while a sea lion swims back and forth excitingly following her. While similar scenes may play out at zoos across the country freq
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The Weather Channel Facebook friend Ben Ellison sent us this photo standing on a chunk of ice in Lake Superior on May 25, 2014. The temperature at the time in Duluth was 80 degrees. The first 80s since the week after Labor Day induced a full-blown case of summer fever in the northern Great Lakes on Memorial Day weekend. This led to the odd spectacle of folks heading to the Lake Superior
This cat in New York might have a bigger heart than some humans. Meet Scarlett the cat who became a world famous mother in 1996 when she selflessly walked through flames to rescue all five of her kittens from a burning building. She is living proof of the strength and willpower of motherly love. Scarlett’s harrowing ordeal began when she and her kittens were living in an abandoned garage po
While most people tend to use their garden as a place of relaxation, Janice Haley chooses to use her backyard as a place to keep her two pet tigers. Saber, a 600 pound male white Bengal tiger and Janda, a 400 pound orange Bengal female live in a cage at the back of Mrs Haley's unassuming suburban home in Orlando, Florida. Each day, the 57-year-old hand feeds the tigers as well as stroking and
photo credit: Philip J. Currie, Robert Holmes, Michael Ryan Clive Coy, Eva B. Koppelhus It’s a pretty rare event to find complete fossils in good condition. After millions of years any number of things could happen to destroy fossils before they are discovered and documented by scientists, if the animal even fossilizes at all. Finding well preserved baby animals is particularly hard, since
The echoes of departed spirits often show up on camera when those in shot were unaware of their presence. But, as this spine-chilling video shows, sometimes the undead are more than capable of making their presence felt. It purports to show the startling moment that a phantom pushes a man to the floor before seizing hold of his leg and dragging him along a deserted corridor. But just as
Guillaume Néry – Wikipedia, Underwater video, Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean’s Blue Hole, filmed on breath hold by Julie Gautier, This Man Dives Into The Abyss, And It’s Absolutely Terrifying!, Guillaume Néry World Champion Freediver base jumping Dean’s Blue Hole… World champion freediver Guillaume Nery does something extraordinary at Dean’s Blue Hole. This is the deepest b
Take the plunge into Mexico’s underwater museum It’s not just flurries of brightly coloured fish that you’ll spot whilst swimming the warm, turquoise waters off the coast of Cancun. Just a short kick of the flippers away from ’s famous diving spot, Manchones Reef, you’ll find a collection of over 400 underwater statues that comprise one of the world’s most unusual museums, the