A Reminder That Australia Has a Spider Season

 

Stone Babies

This CT scan shows the moment doctors found a ‘stone baby’ inside the womb of a 73-year-old woman from Algeria. The stone baby, also known as a lithopedion is created when a pregnancy forms in the abdomen rather than in the uterus.

When the pregnancy fails, the body lacks a mechanism to naturally expel it. Consequently, the body undergoes a process of calcification, essentially turning the fetus into a 'stone,' utilizing the immune process designed to protect against any foreign objects detected in a person's system. (Credit: Morbid Knowledge)

Meat

 

Nature's Revenge

 

Anti-Barfing Spikes

 

Hyena in Full Gory

A Fungi Called Dead Man's Fingers

They're Not Picky Eaters

The Titanoboa

I Dread To Wonder What It Ate

Bizarre Effects on Lake Natron

Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is named for a naturally occurring compound made of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. The lake's high levels of natron come from volcanic ash from the Great Rift Valley, and they've given the water a very unusual side effect: Animals that die and are submerged in the lake are completely calcified and preserved. Photographer Nick Brandt documented the lake's terrifying process, taking pictures of birds and bats that have appeared on the lake's shoreline. "I could not help but photograph them," he told New Scientist. "No one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake's surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake."

 

The Rock With Guts

The Tree is Watching You

The One That Got Away

 

From this site: In 1971 farmer Ted Litton caught this weird animal alive in his artificial pond in Lilac,TX, & got his pic in the paper. 8 hours later his farm was besieged by Army soldiers wearing decontamination suits. They drained the pond, leaving an odd, spheroid cavity in the bottom. Litton says the Army dismissed his beast as a freak of nature yet they confiscated it, promising him 5 grand (which never materialized)."What you don't know can hurt you-1860-1998"

Bizarre Nature

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