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JUNE 24 (Reuters) — The largemouth bass is no Jaws… but it still hunts its prey all the same. This ray-finned fish is under X-ray at Brown University. Scientists there determined that the bass gets a majority of its suction feeding power from its axial swimming muscles. The cranial muscles, meanwhile, contribute very little. The axial muscles link up with the intricate bones in the mouth that allow the fish to rapidly open its mouth […]
Press Release – June 23, 2015 WWF National Ambassadors Swim with Whale Sharks and Manta Rays For over a decade now, Donsol has been synonymous with whale sharks. Known locally as the Butanding, this gentle giant helped catapult the once sleepy town of Donsol in Sorsogon from a fifth-class municipality to a first-class town – all because of a community-based whale shark ecotourism program that WWF-Philippines and the local government established in 1998. Last month, […]
JUNE 19 (Reuters) — Jeralean Talley, the world’s oldest-known person, has died in Michigan 26 days after her 116th birthday, a family spokeswoman said on Thursday (June 18). Born on May 23, 1899, Talley climbed to the top of a list kept by the Gerontology Research Group, which validates the ages of the world’s longest-living people, after Gertrude Weaver died at 116 in Arkansas in April. Talley died on Wednesday night in her home in […]
JUNE 18 (Reuters) — If you ever wanted to flush your wedding dress, designers at the 11th annual Cheap Chic Weddings Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest are giving brides the option. The competition, held in conjunction with Charmin for the fifth year, challenged people to design a wedding dress completely made from toilet paper. “They have to use Charmin toilet paper. Any kind of tape, any kind of glue, and they can use needle and […]
JUNE 17 (Reuters) — New film footage purportedly showing legendary aviator Amelia Earhart has been released to the general public. The footage, shot in 1937, shows Earhart posing for a photographer on an airport tarmac, presumably in Burbank, California. Lost for nearly 80 years, the footage shows photographer Albert Bresnik taking photos of a smiling Earhart, who poses on and around her Lockheed Electra 10E, the plane that would carry her more than 20,000 miles […]
JUNE 17 (Reuters) — Letters penned by physicist Albert Einstein that include his views on God, religion, and the atomic bomb fetched $420,625 at auction on Thursday (June 11). The more than 25 lots of documents included typed and handwritten letters, autographed by Einstein and revealing his innermost thoughts, according to auction house Profiles in History’s Consignment Relations Individual Specialist, Brian Chanes. “What’s so interesting about them is this field is driven by the content, […]
MANILA, June 16 — The deployment of household service workers (HSWs) has declined drastically in the first five months of 2015, the Department of Labor and Employment reported. “I have received a report yesterday from Philippine Overseas Employment Administration chief Hans Leo J.Cacdac that the deployment of newly-hired OFWs who are working as household service workers have decreased by 20 percent over a five-month period, from January to May 2015, compared to the same period […]
JUNE 15 (Reuters) — Twenty-five private pilots established a new world record on Saturday (June 6), after flying in formation over the Russian town of Istra. A video posted to a social media website showed the helicopters taking off before creating a diamond-shaped formation in clear skies. Artem Kurpitko, one of the pilots involved in the airshow, said he came up with the idea a year ago and began training after inviting other private pilots […]
JUNE 9 (Reuters) — A university professor at Kansas State University captured the moment thousands of rare cicadas settled on a tree in the city of Derby on Wednesday (June 3), after they had emerged from the ground after living in the soil for 17 years. Jason Griffin, a professor at the university’s department of Horticulture and Forestry, said the winged insects are known for their high-pitched sound and are the longest known living insects. […]
JUNE 9 (Reuters) — A video posted to a social media website in May captured the moment a bear reached the top of a tall utility tower to approach a bird’s nest in the Canadian town of Fort Smith. The bear was seen gripping to the top of the 30 meter tower as it hovered its head over the nest, ignoring the power cables and the ravens surrounding it. Linda Powell, who captured the moment […]
JUNE 9 (Reuters) — Scientists had a heck of a time getting the remarkable fossil of a dinosaur they dubbed “Hellboy” out of the hard limestone along a Canadian River bank where it was entombed for 68 million years, but the diabolic task proved gratifying. The scientists on Thursday (June 4) described one of the most unique horned dinosaurs ever discovered, a beast boasting an exotic set of facial horns and spines around the edge […]
