Bursting out of a plateau in a remote region of the Ural Mountains, like the gnarled fingers of some giant subterranean monster, the seven rock formations of Manpupuner in the Komi Republic are as veiled in mystery as they sometimes are in snowstorms....
Topics: Featured, formations, Manpupuner, pillars, rock, seven, stone, towers, Ural mountains

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A bird diving and swimming underwater seems like a paradox but then, our feathery friends are crafty when it comes to reaching tasty prey like fish - some birds even dive a few feet deep to catch it! Dippers, gannets, kingfishers, gulls, swans and...
Topics: birds diving, birds swimming, cormorant, Featured, gannet, kingfisher, seagull, swan

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A race of intelligent, diminutive hominids co-existing alongside humanity in South-East Asia? In the year 2003, a creature from mythology stepped out of the shadows and into the cold, hard light of science when an archaeological dig revealed what...
Topics: archaeology, Featured, hobbit, hominid, human, indonesia, Java, myth, skull

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All artists, it can be argued, are playing god when they bring their works into the world, but while some of these creations aim to please through their beauty, others are geared to cause pain as well as pleasure, fear as much as fascination. These...
Topics: bizarre, creatures, Featured, Japanese, Juan Cabana, monsters, rogue, Sarina Brewer, taxidermy, weird

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Super-size isn’t just the American way; it seems Nature has been dealing out enormous portions for thousands of years – and the fast food nation just got on the bandwagon. Yep, through the course of evolution, many gigantic species have come to...
Topics: animals, beetles, centipede, creatures, Featured, giant, giant african land snail, goliath, goliath frog, rats, Titan

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