Salt water crocodile attacks pygmy elephant in Malaysia

 Ok, the elephant is one of the small ones from the Bornean Sabah population, but it’s still an elephant, apparently an adult one (on balance, it might be a ‘sub-adult’, or or teenager; I can’t tell), and the interaction is still rad as hell. It would appear that the crocodile’s behaviour is opportunistic… and also …

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Worth seeing in Portugal.

  Worth seeing in Portugal. It still surprises me that it took so long for the immense waves in Portugal to become well known.

Love the Dog

  Jaroslav Věšín ,Czech painter (1860 – 1915)A Scene from the Balkan War (1914)  

Blowing your Gecko

There are a lot of videos like this. I had no idea. There was some debate that it was a bad thing to do. Better video on FB?

Dingo History

Their analysis constructed thousands of years of dingo population history—and helped answer several questions. For one, the study suggests modern dingoes do not interbreed with domestic dogs, contrary to what has long been assumed. Today’s dingoes share much of their DNA with their ancient ancestors—and very little with domestic dogs. Ancient DNA also revealed that …

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Stellers Sea-Eagle versus Bald Eagle

Stellers Sea-Eagle versus Eagle Greens Harbour August 1, 2025. Steller’s Sea Eagle In Canada ​A great shot and rather astonishing given the uniqueness of the Steller’s in North America for the last several years. Things being what they are now there were immediate calls of it being faked. I doubt that with the nunber of …

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The origins of atoms

This awesome periodic table shows the origins of every atom in your body: ‘Here’s something to think about: the average adult human is made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms, and most of them are hydrogen – the most common element in the Universe, produced by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. The rest …

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