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I could not find a good thread to post this. Mods: you may merge it if appropriate. https://www.nu.nl/opmerkelijk/6153732/kat-overleeft-52-dagen-in-leegstaande-woning-in-schiedam.html Cat survives 52 days in a vacant house in Schiedam During their first visit to the house, the brand new...

Newly published research indicates a wolf population provides a substantial net reduction in damages and expenses caused by deer. FULL STORY: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gray-wolves-scare-deer-roads-reduce-car-collisions

In a move that some scientists say raises serious ethical questions, researchers have for the first time embryos that are a hybrid of human and monkey cells. Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla...

I am browsing Twitter when I come across renowned Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman's theory for the probable explanation of the Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent - a.k.a the Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm. The following article gives a run down on the history of the serpent. Following is Loren's...

Maybe someone can clear this up: can a tracker dog follow your scent through a river or body of water? You see it certain films, the escapee getting away because they crossed a river (apart from in No Country for Old Men, which provides a twist on that cliche), but is it true in real life? I...

A rare and Fortean sighting indeed: a science article from the BBC which is detailed, well written, balanced, looks at the likely causes and consequences, and doesn't trivialise or sensationalise! The story is of Orcas/killer whales following and repeatedly head butting yachts and fishing...

Robot 'spy' gorilla records wild gorillas singing and farting, because nature is beautiful Source: livescience.com Date: 29 April, 2020 Mountain gorillas have been caught on camera as they "sing" during their supper, a behavior that has never before been documented on video. Filmmakers...

Today I recalled a "fact" related to me years ago about domestic turkeys: they are so stupid that, if they are outside when it rains, they can drown because they look up in surprise at the rain coming down, and then drown because the rain gets into their lungs. Apparently this is not true, but...

As you likely know, there was a terror attack in London yesterday (29/11/19) in which, sadly, several people died, several more seriously injured. The terrorist was subdued by, amongst others, someone wielding a narwhal tusk (acquired by someone from Fishmonger's Hall).

Something that never fails to amaze me is the vast and frequently-contradictory designs of camouflage seen woven or printed into the uniforms of the world's armed forces. Whilst the logic in a leap from red to khaki is inarguably-sound, it seems there has been from then onwards an...

Maybe you`ve seen the billboard near the Highland Strip. If so, you know that a campaign called "Birds Aren`t Real" is bringing its efforts to the Mid-South. Peter McIndoe joined us on Live at 9 to explain what he believes. ‘Every tweet is a lie’: Birds Aren’t Real campaign spreads message...

Can you help identify this TV show? It was broadcast in the 1970's on the BBC and the time slot would be mid to late morning during the Summer holidays. Same time they used to show things like 'Why Don't You?' and 'The Banana Splits'. My memory tells me that it was presented by David...

Everyone is tocking about this tick. LAST SUMMER, IN a town just outside New York City, a tick bit a man. This ought to sound unexceptional. Ticks are normal on the upper East Coast; after all, tick-transmitted Lyme diseasewas first identified next door, in Connecticut. But the tick that...

A few nights ago I was sitting up watching late night TV, and heard what I can only describe as an exotic bird, it was loud and sounded to be just beyond the back door in my back garden - It was the sort of sound that you may hear, if you visited the bird house in your local zoo. Not wanting to...

Has anyone else seen a ghost of their pet or had spooky experiences after the death of an animal? I have had a couple of experiences like this. The first was after my Dad had taken one of my dogs to be put to sleep. I was about 20 and I was laying on the grass in our back garden. I was looking...

There is a lot happening around the mysterious pre-Cambrian Ediacara fossils. They did not survive and have no comparable modern species. They look and feel alien. No one knows what they were but research is continuing. A few nice recent lectures: This lecturer stutters, but the content is...

On a somewhat related note, one of the cancer hospices in my town keeps a cat in-house. According to the nurses, when the cat camps in a particular patient's room it means the patient isn't going to live through the night. The cat only seems to do this with patients who don't have any family...

Living in Australia and having lived in the remote isolated hot desert ouback for years I can easily believe that story. However, for us it's not rats, but on occassions, mice plagues and they come out by the droves at night looking for food. With nothing much for them to eat where I lived, they...

SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39445664

What it says on the tin. Story, such as there is one: https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/hairless-cat-has-face-butt-7909399.amp

There doesn't seem to be a general purpose thread for scary noises and spooky sounds, so here's one. Mods, if there's a better place for this, please feel free to move it. Tonight, I needed to go down to the nearest shop. It was about 11 PM, just before closing time. It was cold, windy and...

On (I think Wednesday 14 Sep?) the UK Radio 4 pre 6 o'clock news gapfill, there was a horrifying story being recounted by a British Arctic meteorologist about his personal experiences of his team's weather station / accomodation being broken into by a hungry polar bear. It had broken down the...

Slightly old news, but intriguing – and, unless I’ve missed something in the mean time, I don’t think there’s been a resolution. I’ve had a quick shufty around the MB but can’t find that the following story ever made it here – which kind of surprises me. Bump me if I’m wrong. Full article...

Not being an expert on Crocodiles - Saltwater or otherwise - I find myself wondering: a) Is there a likely upper figure for a community or is this wholly dependant on food availability? b) Do crocodiles save food for later? Would there be a point at which they'd simply stop killing available...

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I hadn't heard this story before, and it doesn't seem to have been mentioned in the forum either: The day UFOs stopped play By Richard Padula, BBC World Service Sport Sixty years ago a football match ground to a halt when unidentified flying objects were spotted above a stadium in...

Godzilla? 9-foot great white shark EATEN by huge mystery sea monster, say scientists Jun 07, 2014 14:56 By Mikey Smith A nine-foot-long great white shark was eaten by a huge mystery sea monster, according to scientists in Australia. As the saying goes, there's always a bigger fish -...

Up until this video was shot, Florida diver Dave Marcel had an interesting habit when he encountered sharks. According to Animal Planet, he enjoyed flipping them over, then kissing and rubbing their stomachs. But when he decided to get a little friendlier and kiss a nurse shark on the lips, his...

I think an Invasive Species thread is required, OOPA & OOPP don't quite fit the bill.

On the way home from work (between Chislehurst and Greenhithe) I nearly hit 3 foxes at different spots, and have noticed lots of dead foxes (clearly hit by cars) in the road (more so than ever before). One fox was on the middle of a bypass roundabout. I wonder what's happening with them at the...

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When cats and dogs lived together in peace.

Trouble bruin? Will we have a Planet of the Bears? This could polarise debate.

Actually, in the image it looks as if the bear is using a mobile phone!

OK I'm quite a serious arachnophobe. I think I picked it up off my mum when I was a kid. I've been thinking about it again because I had a conversation with a bloke at work about the bird eating spider. He mentioned attempts to find the chicken eating spider. I'm not as bad as I used to be...

The Grauniad Tortoise realdolls!

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From screaming skulls and headless horsemen to murdered brides and phantom farmers, English folklore is full of spine-tingling ghost stories. By Peter Griffiths Reuters - Friday, May 9 11:24 am LONDON (Reuters) Terrified witnesses speak of seeing ghostly armies marching through the fog...

I heard this one from my cousins, who claim to know the person it happened to. She was house sitting for a couple who had a pet snake so she could feed it. The snake was too big for a tank, so was left to slither around the house as it pleased, but after a week it stopped eating. Then the...

I remember reading somewhere years ago that an egyptian wall painting showing some gifts being given to one of the early Pharoahs "quite clearly shows a juvenile mammoth". I can't remember exactly where I read it though. Anyone got any Ideas?

Link unrecoverable, animal identified below Now that's some weird creature. My head says its been 'shopped, my gut says real - however impossible that may be. It's the noise it makes. Truly sinister. Wadd'ya all reckon? obviously move merge mods if ive repeated someone else's groove...

With the current furore in the British media about dangerous dogs, and that perhaps the legislation brought in in 1991 (Amd. 1997) needs another look, something stirred at the back of my mind. Does anyone recall, back in the early 1990s, just before the Dangerous Dogs Act was brought in, all...

Was flipping through the Hawkin's Bazaar catalogue that they sent out to leadeth me into temptation, when i saw that they sell 'sea monkeys'. I remember these from the comics of the 1970s, esp. the american ones that had really exagerated pictures of what the sea monkeys were supposed to look...

Years back I read Daniel P. Mannix' novel THE WOLVES OF PARIS, set in mediaeval times and featuring a monstrously-large pack of highly intelligent but starving wolves who attack the City with very nearly military precision. While the tale is fiction, it was supposed to have been based on...