A female zebra shark named Leonie in Australia has shocked scientists by producing three offspring after spending years away from her male partner. Subsequent analysis found that she had simply developed the ability to do it all on her own.. Researchers with Australia’s University of Queensland (UQ) observed the change at the Reef HQ Aquarium and have documented it in ... Read More »
Porn pirates are reportedly using a known YouTube backdoor to store infringing material on Google’s servers for free. Usually when a video is uploaded to YouTube, Google’s hosting services scan the film using Content-ID software and compares it to others to spot copyrighted material. This process also weeds out adult and abusive content that doesn’t fit with the website’s strict ... Read More »
A man was killed by a 3.5-metre crocodile while wading across the notorious Cahills Crossing in the Northern Australian wilderness. The 47-year-old Gunbalanya local’s body was found on Thursday night at Cahills Crossing Cahill’s Crossing is not a footbridge, and at the time of the attack a recommendation on the NT Government’s road report website said only high-clearance four-wheel drive ... Read More »
‘Fairy circles’ have long been one of nature’s greatest mysteries, prompting wild theories they were created by aliens or legendary gods. These images show the vast areas that are covered by the mysterious fairy circles that pock the grassy desert of Namibia and why they have captivated the imaginations of visitors to the region. Scientists have long debated how these ... Read More »
A woman is in critical condition after a small aircraft crashed north of the Duncan Airport. The North Cowichan RCMP says officers called to the incident this afternoon arrived to find the plane had taken out several power lines in the crash. The small plane, owned by the Victoria Flying Club, had a flight instructor and student on board at ... Read More »
George and Amal Clooney are reportedly expecting twins – a boy and a girl, according to an interview with In Touch. Citing a source close to the lawyer, 38, the publication reports that the Hollywood power couple were “surprised” when they found out they were expecting twins, but news they were having one of each made them feel they’d hit ... Read More »
A series of stunning new images from the NASA rover Curiosity have revealed what researchers say if the first evidence or cracked, dry mud on the red planet’s surface. Researchers are convinced, more than ever, that Mars was once a wet planet. Some billions of years ago, Mars hosted large lakes, they assert, and traces of evidence supporting this assertion ... Read More »
Hundreds of thousands of red Skittles spilled across a Wisconsin highway Tuesday night, the local sheriff’s office said on its Facebook page. “There’s no little ‘S’ on them, but you can definitely smell, it’s a distinct Skittles smell,” Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt told WISN. It turns out that the Skittles were being transported in the back of a flatbed ... Read More »
Wildlife officials reported they were unable to save dozens of false killer whales reported found stranded over the weekend. NOAA Fisheries said a total of 95 false killer whales were spotted in distress in a remote location near Hog Key, an island on the western boundary of Everglades National Park, by a bystander on Saturday. False killer whales belong to ... Read More »
Netflix reported better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter, led by strong subscriber growth outside the US. Netflix added 7.05 million new streaming customers in the fourth quarter and ended 2016 with 93.8 million subscribers worldwide. As a result, Netflix stock jumped more than 8% in after-hours trading today, following the earnings release. Netflix earned 15 cents a share, up 50% ... Read More »
Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Donald Trump‘s The Apprentice, announced on Tuesday that she is suing him for defamation – just four days before his inauguration as President. Summer Zervos is represented by lawyer Gloria Allred, who spoke alongside her during a press conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Zervos, a former contestant on the television program The Apprentice, ... Read More »
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