The blue whale is not only the largest animal on Earth right now, but could very well be the largest animal ever. When these massive animals die, they don’t always sink. Sometimes they wash up on shore and it goes without saying that getting rid of the carcass is no small task. When a whale dies and begins to decompose, any food left in the gut begins to rot and bacteria inside the animal
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When you hear of someone trying to hug a wild lion, you immediately think you know exactly what’s about to happen. But trust me when i say, you will not see this coming. Kevin Richardson is a South African Zoologist who over the years has conducted extensive research on the native animals of the African plains. If this was any one other than Kevin trying to hug a lion, we may have had an al
During the month of May, I shot Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota when I had the time, and the weather cooperated. The biggest challenge was cloudy nights and the wind. There were very few nights, when I could shoot, that were perfectly clear, and often the wind was blowing 25mph +. That made it hard to get the shots I wanted. I kept most of the shots low to the ground, so the wind w
Hobbit House in New Zeland This hobbit house, as well as plenty of others, can be found on the Hobbiton Movie Set in Matamata, New Zealand. There are plenty of quaint details that would make it a simply adorable place to live, from the bright yellow paint and tiny door to the lovely flower garden and stone path. Traditional House in Iceland This house is a great representation of what the
British swimmer, Adam Walker had enough to worry about as he took on the freezing ocean in a grueling eight hour and 36 minute swim across the Cook Strait on Tuesday. But he had his mind taken off the extreme temperature when he noticed a two metre shark-shaped figure swimming beneath him in the New Zealand waters. Luckily enough, the shark never attempted an attack as a pod of dolphins soon
The Moon’s orbit about the Earth is not perfectly circular, so that at different times the Moon can be slightly closer or further away than usual. This composite shot shows the progress of an annular eclipse in May 2013. | Jia Hao/The National Maritime Museum The sun will look like a ring of fire above some remote parts of the world next Tuesday (April 29) during a solar eclipse, but most p