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Sisterhood of Weavers

Sisterhood of Weavers

It’s the insect version of squeezing glue from a bottle. This adult weaver in Australia holds a silk-producing larva in its jaws, spreading the larva’s sticky secretions to bind leaves for the colony nest. Few animals [...]

Emperor Penguin Takes Wrong Turn to New Zealand

Emperor Penguin Takes Wrong Turn to New Zealand

A young Antarctic Emperor penguin has taken a rare wrong turn and ended up stranded on a New Zealand beach. Emperor penguins typically spend their entire lives in Antarctica and almost never make landfall near humans. [...]

Weird Homemade Car Race in Kiev

Weird Homemade Car Race in Kiev

Participants take part in the homemade car race in Kiev, Ukraine, June 18, 2011. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet [...]

Environmental Scars

Environmental Scars

American phоtоgrapher J. Hеnry Fаir spеt fivе yеars taking picturеs оf industrial scаrs аnd tоxic wаste. A plume оf fоam in bauxite wаste at an aluminum manufacturing plant. Darrow, Louisiana, USA, 2005. Thе inside of а [...]

Infinite Cave

Infinite Cave

A giant cave column swagged in flowstone towers over explorers swimming through the depths of Hang Ken, one of 20 new caves discovered last year in Vietnam. A half-mile block of 40-story buildings could fit inside [...]

“Zombie” Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi

“Zombie” Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi

Zombie Infection Spreads During later stages of Ophiocordyceps camponoti-rufipedis infection, the fungus rapidly consumes the nutrients inside a zombie ant and begins to colonize the outside of the ant’s body, as pictured. The fungus stalk growing [...]