Snakes and spiders are almost unanimously feared amongst all disparate populations of earth. In England and other cooler climbs our fear is wasted energy, but for many who dwell in the warmer sections of the world, that fear...
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This video really put the willies up me good and proper. There’s a chap sitting in a chair in the woods with a gun, that’s pretty scary on its own, but that’s not...
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Foxfire is nothing to do with foxes or fires, just to get that straight from the start. It’s actually a type of bioluminescence produced by certain fungi that live in decaying wood. Also...
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You don’t get to see these weirdos in real life too often, not because they’re from an alien planet, but because they live in the deep and are rarely caught by fishermen. Giant...
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The cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis) is one of the less impressively sized members of the shark family. They generally don’t get much over 50 cm long and have relatively thin and weak bodies. The...
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Australia has faced some of the worst floods in living history over the last few years. The residents who’ve had their property destroyed and found themselves being forced to move to higher ground are never...
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Dalceridae are commonly referred to as “slug” caterpillars because of their impressively slimy appearance. If I’m honest, I think the nickname is a little unfair. Slugs are unanimously considered to be ugly, whereas I...
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Us humans like to look at things we didn’t expect to see. Anything from car crashes to murder victims, it’s an odd habit that I doubt we’ll ever lose. The bad old days...
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Referring of course to the Biblical Lazarus (who Jesus kindly brought back from the jaws of death), a Lazarus taxon is a group of animals initially thought to be extinct only to be discovered...
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Colletto Fava is a 5,000 ft (1,500 metre) hill in Italy. In 2005, Members of the Viennese art group Gelitin (which inclides M. Puletta, Corroni Fali, Razzoli Caputo, and R. Calizone) decided to...
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