Can’t help but post about this because of the strangeness of this little mutant!

The permanent darkness of the ocean depths is home to a far greater range of animals, from luminous jellyfish to tubeworms that live off oil seeping from the seabed, than previously thought.

A total of 17,650 species of animals, also including shrimps, corals, starfish or crabs, have now been identified in the frigid, sunless waters down to about 5 km deep.

“The diversity of life in the deep sea is much, much greater than we’ve believed,” said Robert Carney of Louisiana State University, who co-leads a study of the ocean depths as part of a wider international Census of Marine Life (COML).

“The abyss is not the dark hole any more,” he told Reuters of surveys with deep-towed cameras, sonar’s and other technology.

Light typically penetrates about 200 metres into the seas - comparable to the height of the 169-metre Washington Monument obelisk - and the zone beyond has long been viewed as a desert with crushing pressures.

Four coffins were uncovered in China with some of the most intact mummies the world has ever seen. They were nicknamed the “Smiling Princess”! You can even see their eye lashes!

Shoppers at a US grocery store got an unexpected surprise when a 125-pound black bear wandered inside and headed straight for the beer cooler. The bear stopped on Friday night at Marketplace Foods in Hayward, about 140 miles northeast of Minneapolis, sauntering through the automatic doors and heading straight for the liquor department. It calmly climbed up 3.65m onto a shelf in the beer cooler where it sat for about an hour while employees helped evacuate customers and summoned wildlife officials. Officials from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources tranquilized the animal and took it out of the store.

Store workers say the bear seemed content in the cooler and did not consume any alcohol.

Posting an article about Dogs because my family pet dog died earlier in the week.

‘Measuring 1 metre tall at the shoulders and 2.1 metres long from nose to destructive wagging tail, he might be the world’s tallest living dog. Caryn Weber says her 3-year-old Landseer Newfoundland keeps all four paws on the floor when he drinks from the kitchen sink in her family’s farm house in eastern North Dakota. Boomer can stare into a car window eye to eye with a driver. A 9-kilogram bag of dry dog food lasts the 81-kilogram canine a couple of weeks. Weber says the fluffy black and white dog “comes into the house and his tail is so high everything gets knocked around.” Weber plans to send Boomer’s measurements to Guinness World Records. The previous record holder was a nearly 1.2-meter-tall Great Dane that died this summer.’

Came across pictures of some Japanese freestyle wrestling where they allow items of different nature to be smashed against one another. In this instance some lighting was used and the effect seems very harmful. But surely you can imagine something like that would only cause some cuts and not actual injuries. Either way the sport seems awfully brutal!

According to British media earlier this month a women in England took a picture of her garden. In the photograph a fairy like creature was captured. After searching all over her garden she was unable to locate the creature again. From her research of different insects over the internet she has found nothing that looks anything like it. To be it looks like some kind of flying bug, since it is all blurry and such you can’t quite prove anything with the image alone!

Source: chinanews.com.cn