An amazing video published by RedBull channel: with that 360° HD Interactive video, you can explore Northeastern Italy’s Dolomites from an eagle’s point of view.
Category Archives: Life on Earth
Man Who Befriended a Great White Shark [Not a True Story!]
In the last few years, a series of photos circulating over the Internet via email and online, usually with the title of “Man Who Befriended a Great White Shark”, showing close encounters between a man and a great white shark. The websites that publish these photos (and sometimes PowerPoint presentations) claim that an Australian fisherman …
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10 largest fish species
Venturing into the vast expanse of the world’s oceans, one quickly realizes the incredible diversity and grandeur of marine life. Among the many wonders beneath the waves, some creatures stand out due to their immense size and majesty. The term “largest fish” might evoke images of the famed great white shark or perhaps the formidable …
Japanese Man Lives With Pet Caiman
Another unique and interesting friendship between a wild reptile and a man, like the famous story of Chito and Pocho. This Japanese man, named Nobumitsu Murabayashi, keeps a giant caiman as a pet and even walks with his pet caiman in the town center of Kure City, Hiroshima, Japan – with the permission of the …
51 Pegasi b: the first exoplanet to be discovered orbiting a Sun-like star
51 Pegasi b, discovered in 1995, marked a pivotal moment in astronomy, being the first exoplanet confirmed to orbit a Sun-like star. Located approximately 50 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, this gas giant revolutionized our understanding of planetary systems. Unlike the gas giants in our solar system, 51 Pegasi b orbits remarkably close to …
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Here’s how the darkness and cold killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
The catastrophic event that ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago has been a subject of fascination and research for decades. A groundbreaking study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, detailed in their 2017 article “Baby, it’s cold outside: Climate model simulations of the effects of the asteroid impact at …
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Monkeys Accidentally Kill A Robot Baby Monkey [And Then Mourn For It! Amazing Video]
In this video published by BBC One channel, monkeys accidentally kill the robot baby monkey that researchers put among them. Then, something amazing happens: the members of the tribe get very sad because of the accident and mourn for the robot baby monkey’s “death”.
Crocodile carries her hatchlings to the water [close-up video footage]
The video below offers an extraordinary glimpse into the rarely-seen world of Nile crocodiles. As a female crocodile named Ganda tenderly transports her newborn babies to the water, we witness a moment of surprising gentleness from a creature often only associated with ferocity. This intimate footage was made possible by innovative research techniques: days before …
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Two stars may collide and light up the night sky in 2022
Two stars may collide into a stunning “red nova” in 2022 (or a few months earlier, most probably between September 2021 and September 2022), and for a few weeks become one of the brightest objects in Earth’s night sky, scientists predict. When two stars merge, they increase in brightness 10 thousandfold.
What would happen if humans became extinct?
In the last few thousand years, humans have had a powerful impact on Earth. Within a geological blink of an eye, we exploded out of Africa to colonize virtually every inhabitable space on the planet. We dammed the rivers, domesticated animals, deforested many areas, changed the chemistry of the atmosphere and the seas… the list …
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