Remember when we last posted a story about an exploding whale? Well get out your sick-bags ‘cos we’ve got another one for you.
Filmed on the s65 near Skukuza in the Kruger National Park, footage emerged today of an elephant charging and rolling the vehicle of two tourists. The British teacher and his partner were injured, but survived.
African swallows have a habit of flying close to the surface of a large body of water for the sake of snapping up insects that may be rising from or landing on said body of water. Consequently, tiger fish have the habit of leaping from said body of water to devour the swallow in a deadly union of flight.
Last weekend, Shigenori Goto became the latest fisherman to mistakenly haul up a very rare giant squid in his fishing nets.
Pastor Lesego Daniel is known for his, shall we say, ‘experimental’ teachings. He reinforced this perception a few days ago when he ordered his congregation to drop to the floor and eat grass, in a bid to get “closer to God”.
Academy Award-winning actress Anne Hathaway was NOT ACTING when she was screaming for help in the ocean on Wednensday. Anne was clearly in distress, gulping water, waving her arms and shouting for help after getting stuck in a rip current. The 31-year-old actress got caught in the strong waves while swimming off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii on Wednesday where she was on holiday with her husband, Adam Shulman.
In what looks like a scene straight from ‘The Walking Dead’, a heatwave in Queensland, Australia is so severe that it’s killed over 100,000 bats. Killed them DEAD.
The record-breaking winter chill in America has swept over Niagra Falls, almost stopping it completely in its tracks.
It’s a tricky task, trying to figure out precisely how old a shark is. It has mystified marine biologists for decades – and it was just a matter of time before we developed tech that’s good enough to give us accurate results. That time only happened quite recently.
The frigid conditions in the US are no longer a laughing matter, as cold air that was trapped in the Canadian arctic continues to spread across America, freezing whole cities in its wake.
An American hunter, Rick Dyer, has recently claimed that he shot and killed bigfoot, and he is now now planning on taking it “on a tour” of the States.
Well, this was a bad day at the office. Amateur photographer, Ian Matheson shot this extraordinary footage during an early morning game drive in the Mjejane Reserve in Mpumalanga.
Tata Madiba is being honoured by the Western Cape provincial government with laser projections that will be shone onto Table Mountain this week.
The River Jordan is being dried up for use in irrigation, which has led the Dead Sea’s water levels to drop by about a metre every 12 months. The middle-eastern nations have reacted quickly, and signed an agreement that might just bring the Dead Sea back.
Truffles are the diamonds of cuisine – exquisite, much desired worldwide, and hard to come by. Which makes adopting your very own truffle tree a fairly epic prospect.
You’ll never guess what humans and crickets have in common – and it’s either amazing or completely terrifying. Composer Jim Wilson recorded crickets, slowed down the track and produced what sounds like human voices singing.
You see and use these symbols every day – but do you have any idea where they come from? Believe it or now, many of the UI symbols that have become second nature to us actually have a meaning derived from nature, history, and psychology. Some of these symbols were specifically designed with the user […]
It’s just about to become your favourite time of the year. Work is winding down, the sun is coming out to play and holiday season is just around the corner.
Yesterday afternoon, like so many summer afternoons in Johannesburg, saw some really destructive hail tear through parts of the city, leaving hundreds of people questioning the safety of their cars, windows and pets.
Well, they don’t want to put solar panels ALL OVER the moon, they just want to to put a cheeky little 400 kilometer-wide belt of solar panels around the moon. Casual.
Marcos Rodriguez Pantoia claims that not only was he raised by wolves but that he had a guardian pet snake.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex has long held a place in our imagination as the king of the prehistoric jungle, but a new fossil finding in Utah may challenge this long-held belief.
One day it’s just open sea – the next day there’s an island. Filmed just off the coast of Japan, an erupting volcano has just formed an entirely new island that is about 650 meters across.
Florida seems a nice enough place to live. But there is always that niggling worry that there’s something wrong with Florida. Oh yes, that’s it – you’re permanently at risk of losing everything you own down a massive gaping hole in the earth.
With a maximum sustained wind speed estimated at 315kph, Typhoon Haiyan was probably the strongest tropical typhoon to make landfall in recorded history, meteorologists say.
In yet another case showcasing Australia’s uber-tight border control regulations, officials at Australia’s customs desk have declared international copies of Katy Perry’s new album, “Prism,” to be an indisputable bio-hazard. Why? Is it because her album is just so terrible and they need an excuse to get it off the number one spot on Australia’s Aria chart? No. It’s because Katy Perry gives away free seeds with her album.
National Geographic recently compiled an interactive map that allows us to examine what the Earth might look like if we allow all the sea-ice to melt. It is estimated that if said ice does melt, the ocean will rise by a full 66 metres. And anyone who knows how the ocean works will know that 66 metres is a stupendously ridiculous number that will have massive effects on the landscape.
The video of David Attenborough narrating Miley Cyrus twerking at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (that you’ve been waiting for) is finally here. If you watch nothing else today, watch this.
You know all about the Big 5, don’t you. Of course you do. It’s the the third term learnt by all South African children after “Nelson Mandela” and “mama”. But you’d never heard of the Marine Big 5, had you? Look, don’t beat yourself up. But do catch up, for goodness sake. This info graphic […]
Just take a guess where scientists have found a whole array of new animal species. You’d be thinking somewhere isolated, somewhere big, somewhere uncharted… Yup, it’s Australia. The continent down under is home to some of the world’s most fascinating animals, and just a few days ago a few more were were added to the list.