A display a lot more stunning and amazing than any New Year’s eve fireworks, the Quadrantid meteor shower which is named after a now extinct constellation will color the night sky with 200 plus meteors per hour tonight! This 2-hour display happens once a year, in January. Quadrantid will light up the sky coming from […]
A 21-foot long giant saltwater male crocodile that weighed about a ton believed to have killed a fisherman and attacked a water buffalo was snared in the Agusan Del Sur Province, Philippines. A band composed of villagers and croc experts from Western Palawan were formed to catch the beast. It took three weeks before the […]
Two is a pleasant number in Chinese culture. There is a Chinese saying, “good things come in pairs”. We have Batman and Robin (forget Bat Mite), coffee and doughnuts, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, M&M , just add it to this list as you wish. Then there’s also another popular saying, two heads are better […]
Leaping giant crocodiles are swiftly becoming tourist attractions in Australia , but how safe is it for the tourists or for humans in general when these cold blooded reptiles become too comfy and lose their instinctive fear on man. A cruise down Adelaide can get pretty adventurous and jaw-dropping upon witnessing a 5.5 meter crocodile […]
Wildlife officials in Eagle, Colorado are on the lookout for people who have been reported to authorities by witnesses, feeding by hand a couple of Burger King cheeseburgers to a mommy black bear and her three cubs. Call it a fearless display of affection for the dangerous and wild beast? I would agree with Northwest […]
A string of wins for a dog named “Sam” owned by Susie Lockheed, has made the already popular Sonoma-Marin County Fair World’s Ugliest Dog contest more popular where it is now covered on T.V. and internet. So what’s the formula to making an ugly mutt? The past 7 winners are bald Chinese Cresteds which are […]
Google celebrated the 50 years of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s (and mankind’s first) space flight today with a cool animated Google Doodle of Yuri Gagarin with the Vostok 1 blasting off to space. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into space and orbit Earth. Gagarin returned home a hero and […]
This beautiful image of the planet Mercury was taken by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft on March 18, 2011 (UTC) during it’s orbit around the Solar Systems innermost planet. The MESSENGER is the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury and used the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging […]
