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World’s Largest Fish Nesting Ground With 60 Million Nests Discovered Under Antarctic ice

The unexpected find is way larger than any other known colony of fish nests found so far. The ice babies in the nests may soon get their own marine protected area. Image credit: Alfred Wegener Institute, PS124 OFOBS Team The fact that we know less about the ocean floor than we do about the surface of the Moon doesn’t make this incredible find any less surprising. Five hundred meters below th

This is the Largest Seed in the World – It Weighs About the Same as a 8-Year-Old Child

On the gorgeous islands of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean grows a legendary palm, known for producing the largest and heaviest seeds in the world. With their rather suggestive shape and impressive weight of about 25kg (55 lbs), the seeds of the double coconut, or coco-de-mer, measure up to half a metre long. This type of palm, Lodoicea maldivica, is the sole species in its family that’s

Mars is Alive! NASA Detects Unusual Activity From Inside The Planet

It turned out that Mars wasn't as silent as first believed. Instead, there is intense seismic activity on the red planet, which is rumbling and groaning. The planet is experiencing dynamic shocks deep below its surface, and right now, molten lava may be pouring just below the Martian crust. If it is true, it will alter our knowledge of Martian geodynamics that we have amassed over the

The World’s Largest Edible Mushroom Lives in Symbiosis with Termites and That’s Why It Grows So Huge

Most edible mushrooms are relatively small, but in West Africa as well as Zambia, there’s one particularly enormous species that outgrows all the rest of them. Termitomyces titanicus. A rather fitting name for such a huge species. Image credit: Danny Newman In Zambia, where mushroom-gathering is an important part of life, the Termitomyces titanicus is especially held in high regard. Whil

Rare Wave-Shaped Clouds Captured by Sky-Watcher in Wyoming

A sky-watcher has snapped amazing photos of a rare cloud formation moving across the horizon like ocean waves. Image credit: Rachel Gordon/Facebook Rachel Gordon told BBC News she took the images from her parents’ back door in the US state of Wyoming. She then posted them to the Facebook page Wyoming through The Lens, from where they quickly went viral. The phenomenon known

Woman Discovers That Her Flowers Have Become A Hotel For Frogs

Residents in Snohomish, Washington, know it’s spring when the last bit of snow has melted and colorful flowers begin to bloom. For Allison Lamb, however, the first sign always comes from a noisy but cute group of neighbors. “We know when spring has arrived when we can hear all the frogs begin to croak,” Lamb told The Dodo. ALLISON LAMB According to Lamb, the frogs who visit her

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Rare Photo Captures Noctilucent Clouds and Aurora Borealis Together

Astrophotographer Göran Strand captured not one, but two rare celestial phenomenons in the same image yesterday. Strand was delighted to photograph noctilucent clouds that occupy the layer of atmosphere known as the mesosphere, and are higher than any other clouds. But as he was out shooting the lesser-seen clouds close to the city of Östersund in Sweden. The northern lights, which h

Tomorrow Island (Russia) and Yesterday Isle (USA) Are Just Three Miles Apart But There’s a 21-Hour Time Difference Between Them

The Diomede islands are just three miles apart but the bigger island is almost one day ahead of its smaller neighbor as they sit on two sides of the International Date Line. The two islands are almost a day apart. Image credit: Dave Cohoe Sitting in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia, Big Diomede is located on the Russian side while Little Di

Female octopuses will chuck seashells at males who irk them

The debris-chucking octopuses were caught on camera for the first time in Australia. Having eight arms can make for some interesting sporting events (just check out the weird history of octopus wresting). But, if the idea of battling it out with a 100-pound, multi-armed sea beast wasn’t scary enough, imagine having eight arms throwing seashells at you. A study published today in the open