Nature is incredibly swift at reclaiming the planet when humans are not around. Here are some powerful images of nature reclaiming public spaces during the lockdown around the planet. All around the planet, animals are turning up in urban and city areas. Pollution has dropped dramatically too. Clear skies in Paris Animals of all kinds […]
One Man Single-Handedly Plants Forest Bigger Than Central Park
Jadav Payeng is a former labourer who lives on the Indian river-Island of Majuli, the largest river island in the world. It is located in northeastern India. Back in In 1979, he was 16-year old and became devastated when he stumbled upon a pile of dead snakes, scorched to death by extreme heat on the […]
Fox Found With Impressive Shoe Collection In Berlin
A fox in berlin has been caught hoarding an impressive amount of shoes. Locals in Zehlendorf, Berlin, were puzzled for weeks at the disappearing sports shoes and sandals that were vanishing at night from their gardens reported the BBC. Finally, a man spotted the culprit on a patch of wasteland, “it was flagrantly carrying two […]
Mystery Seeds From China Are Turning Up Around The World. Why You Should Not Plant Them.
At least 27 states in the US have reported mystery packages containing seeds from China, and it has now gone global. The US, Canada, Australia and the UK are now all investigating amid concerns they could introduce a biohazard or an exotic plant disease. Officials in all 52 states and other jurisdictions are urging residents […]
Light Pillars – Amazing Optical Phenomenon!
All over the planet, the lucky few have witnessed this amazing optical phenomenon. Light pillars are the optical phenomenon that looks out of this world! A light pillar is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and/or below a light source. The effect is created by the […]
Hummingbirds see colours we can only imagine – Making Them Even More Awesome!
Humans are colour-blind compared to birds and many other animals. Put simply, humans have three types of retina colour cones, and birds have four. This makes us sensitive to red, green and blue light. A new study shows that tiny hummingbirds see colours we can’t even imagine! Birds have a fourth, that lets them detect […]
Fire Snails – Very Rare And Under Threat
Platymma tweediei is its full name, but Fire Snail as it is also known sounds way cooler. They are incredibly rare, found only in a 100km radius in an area in Malaysia, and they are under threat from humans. They are highly sought after by exotic pet collectors, despite them being almost impossible to keep […]
The critically endangered Saiga Antelope
The saiga antelope is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest. Prone to being hunted for their horns, the Saiga Antelope is now one threat level above being totally extinct. During 2014-15 […]
Stranger than Fiction-A Leopard and motherly Cow
This unprecedented strange relationship between a wild leopard and its prey-the cow observed in Antoli village in Vadodara district in Gujarat, India. The cow would sometimes lick the cat on its head and neck. To many observers, it seemed that the cow was behaving towards the leopard as she would towards her own calf. You […]
Meet the Rare Swimming Wolves That Eat Seafood
These rarely seen animals of Vancouver Island, the Swimming Wolves That Eat Seafood! So let’s Meet the Rare Swimming Wolves. “They move like ghosts along the shorelines of Canada’s Vancouver Island, so elusive that people rarely see them lurking in the mossy forests.” British filmmaker Bertie Gregory was one of the lucky ones: He saw coastal wolves—also known as […]