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Nepal’s Annual Goat Beheadings [Graphic Images]
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Walking through the crowds and past crippled beggars, midst the heady smell of incense, those who have come to participate in the puja find themselves caught up a throng of people waiting to get to the sacrificial temple. Once there, to the tune of exultant music played by other onlookers, they witness the animal slaughter. The slaughterer’s arm is raised and then the blade is swiftly brought down with a sickening thud, severing the creature’s head.
Continue reading...Flying Fish
Monday, September 7, 2009
If someone in a pub told you they’d just seen a fish flying for nearly quarter of a mile, you might think there was something fishy about their story – or maybe just that they’d been drinking like a fish. But bad jests aside, certain of our Piscean pals are fully capable of such feats. Flying fish use their aerodynamic bodies to burst from the surface of the water at high speeds, while their peculiarly large fins function like wings to keep them gliding above the waves.
Continue reading...The Truth Behind the Mongolian Death Worm
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Braving violent sandstorms akin to fog with an attitude problem, tent-shredding twisters that blast men off their feet, and an ice river that caves in as their vehicles are crossing, the four men continue on. Their thoughts are haunted by the creature they are tracking, a legendary beast said to be capable of spitting lethal corrosive venom, or killing from a distance with an electrical discharge. This was the quest to find the truth about the Mongolian Death Worm.
Continue reading...Don’t Even Think About It…
Friday, June 12, 2009
Following last month's popular Death is Milliseconds Away post, this time we've decided to turn the tables on the beastly bullies who reckon they're in for an easy snack. Here we bring you some equally special snapshots in which would-be victims have decided to take a stand in a bid for survival – giving their foes something to go away and think about or at least making them work for their meal.
Continue reading...Animals Poke Fun at Photographers
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
We humans love to take pictures of animals, and strive to elicit "ooohs" and "awwws" from our friends. But what about the animals and how they're feeling when we decide to invade their space and point flashbulbs in their faces? Well, it seems that sometimes our furry friends really don't appreciate our paparazzi ways and fight back by refusing to sit pretty. The thing is, it doesn't stop, but encourages us, and somehow the snapshots still end up cute as ever.
Continue reading...The Mad, the Macabre, and the Marvelous
Monday, May 4, 2009
Disturbing or fascinating? The specimen you see before you is the Lion of Gundavore, a horrific undead being that appears part Lion and part Megatherium, a long extinct elephant-sized ground sloth. This cursed creature is just one of a menagerie of mythical and unreal beasts that populate the Museum of the Mad, the Macabre, and the Marvelous.
Continue reading...Just How Smart is a Chimp?
Monday, May 12, 2008
Image from chiking Actually, chimps are smarter than both you or I. I understand that this is a little shocking–the evolutionary equivalent of your younger brother bringing home Adriana Lima for Christmas–so I’ll let you compose yourself, and explain just how the chimp got so smart [...]
Continue reading...1,000 Pound “Colossal” Squid Thawed in NZ
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Calimari-sicles for 10,000, please. Image from Hideki Saito Scientists from New Zealand have begun the process of thawing and dissecting a squid corpse that they’ve kept in a freezer for the past year. It is huge, weighing in at half a ton.
Continue reading...Dead “King” Gator To Be On Display In Georgia
Monday, April 28, 2008
Image from Steve Beger Oscar the alligator, who died at around this time last year, isn’t quite done terrorizing the populace with his 14-foot frame just yet. Park rangers have determined that to honor the beast, they’re going to have him on display, in skeletal form, in a [...]
Continue reading...This Dog is An Impostor!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Ken Griggs has resorted to the sort of steps you normally see in spy movies or capital court cases, all just because of his dog. It’s ok, kennel worker. I feel like this some days, too. Image from reallystrangegirl on Flickr. Convinced that the kennel has returned [...]
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Monday, October 5, 2009
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