Rosie the Shark was caught in a family's tuna-fishing net in 1997 before being preserved in a formaldehyde tank and eventually abandoned. But now, she's finally being restored to her former glory.Crystal World and Prehistoric Journeys Exhibition CenterRosie the shark’s tank is being slowly refilled with glycerol as a safer preservative solution to formaldehyde.
The men who found her had no intentions of catching an apex predator, but Rosie the shark would die after breaching their tuna nets, nonetheless. Read More...
Saudi Arabia has one of the highest death penalty rates in the world and still performs public crucifixions that entail stringing dead bodies up as a deterrent to others.TwitterCrucifixions in Saudi Arabia involve stringing up already executed prisoners up as a way to deter others from protesting against the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia’s official news agency announced on Tuesday that the kingdom recently executed 37 men convicted of terror-related crimes. According to CNN, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) added that one of these supposed criminals was crucified. Read More...
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No, you’re not seeing double. This neon green-and-orange sea slug really does have two heads. Divers working on a documentary about Borneo caught this two-faced nudibranch in action, according to recent reports. While no one understands the exact cause of its deformity, the truth is that even with two heads, this slug is far from the strangest nudibranch in the sea.
If you hear the word “nudibranch” and think “naked,” you’re not immature – the word has Latin and Greek roots and roughly translates as “naked gill,” since many species, like this bright pink Tritoniopsis elegans, display beautiful, feathery gills on their backs. Read More...
