Compare: The world’s first cloned cat with the original. Not exactly the same, huh?
CC was born 18 years ago and is still going strong! BTW that footage of CC is exclusive from her owners :) Pics and footage courtesy of Texas A&M.
Edward Mordrake is basically a staple of “weird but true” and “incredible actual medical cases” but the whole thing is actually not true at all. That “photo” you’ve seen floating around the internet for ages is a wax sculpture, the one pictured in this article is papier-mâché.
As I’ve explained before, there really is nothing stopping you from taking your human skeleton on a plane.
The world was different then. If mammoths were alive now, most of their habitat would be gone, lost to human development and climate change. However, there is one place that would readily accept any new mammoths, should they be risen from the dead: Pleistocene Park.
Why are do these animals have pink skeletons? They have been prepared using a process called “diaphonization.” Read all about it in my latest Ripley’s piece.
Featuring photos and an interview with @arsanatomica. The artist/scientist who created these is also doing a Kickstarter for an anthology about the interesting things you can learn from processing animal remains.
Meet the Man who Makes Some of the World’s Biggest Monsters
“A big part of my job is getting really big animals through really small doors,” Staab explained.
Bentley had a rare condition called situs inversus, which is almost always fatal. The condition places the liver, stomach, and other organs in the abdomen in the wrong place, which can be dangerous when the blood vessels don’t reach the organs properly. However, Walker explains Bentley was lucky because her heart was (literally) in the right place, so her condition was much less dangerous. Medical literature describes two other people with the same condition, with similarly positioned hearts, and they both lived normal lifespans, into their 70’s.
I actually wrote about the Narwhal/Beluga hybrid more than a year ago as one of the accepted whale hybrids, based on the physiology of its skull, but now it’s been confirmed by DNA evidence. Blue whales and fin whales have also hybridized, as have several different species of dolphin, in both the wild and in captivity.
One of the most famous nature documentaries in the world lasts less than a minute and may be a complete hoax. However, one world-famous taxidermist, who has worked at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, takes it very seriously. Read more at Ripley’s.
Once a hunter had this box of skulls for $10 each and one was a fucking unicorn, which I then sold to Ripley’s for $300 and they also just published my article explaining the science behind the cervicorn
that’s right i’m a real journalist i got paid to cover a dog wedding say congrats to meghan barkle and harry prince of tails
Luke McPherson was walking through a dark building in an abandoned wildlife park when he came across a huge tank of murky green liquid. Passing by the tank and continuing into the building, he saw scattered remnants of educational displays, trash, disused signs, and chairs. It wasn’t until he stepped behind the tank and turned to face it again that he saw what it held.
Now illuminated from behind, the animal inside the opaque fluid revealed itself. McPherson gasped as he could see the angular tail of a five-meter-long shark, long dead, a dark silhouette waiting silently against the green glow of sunlight.
Why was the dead shark left to rot? Read my Ripley’s Believe it or Not! article here.