By: Robin Andrews/IFLScience In a not-so-classic tale of revenge, a giant python tried to take a chunk out of a man’s arm before he and some other villagers decided to kill the beastie and eat it. The slithery wannabe assassin, found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, was measured to be 7 meters (23 feet) long –…
Wild Elephant Stops Potato Truck For A Little Snack
By: Sarah V Schweig/The Dodo Nothing could get between a wild Asian elephant and his snack — not even the firecrackers people used to try to scare him away. A wild elephant recently approached a truck along a road going through the Garhbeta forest in eastern India. And even though bystanders shouted at him to go back…
Farmer Thought He Found Kittens. Grow Up And Turn Out To Be Something Entirely Different
By: Christine/Goodfulness This is the story of a Russian farmer who made an amazing discovery. He came across what he believed to be four baby kittens who were residing in his barn. While they were obviously kittens to most viewers, he would soon discover the truth and it will surprise you. Regardless of their species, these…
Deep Sea Expedition Off The Coast Of Australia Discovers Mysterious And Bizarre Animals
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science We all know that the deep sea is full of some seriously strange-looking critters, many of which wouldn’t look out of place in your darkest nightmares. Well, a recent Australian expedition run by CSIRO on the research vessel Investigator did not disappoint. During their voyage from Tasmania to the Coral Sea, the scientists trawled…
Incredibly Rare White Risso’s Dolphin Spotted For First Time In Years
By: Tom Hale/IFL Science Against all odds, a juvenile albino Risso’s dolphin has been spotted in the wild again after it was last seen as a baby back in 2015. This super-rare white dolphin was spotted in the waters off Monterey Bay in California last week by Kate Cummings of Blue Ocean Whale Watch. She quickly made contact…
America’s Cicadas Are Mysteriously Appearing Four Years Early
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Everybody panic – the cicadas are coming, and they’re four years early! Okay, we’re only joking – there’s no real need to panic here. They’re not particularly threatening to humans, but they can be infuriatingly noisy in large enough numbers. Still, the fact that they have emerged from their underground resting places…
Female Dragonflies Fake Sudden Death To Avoid Male Advances
By: Sandrine Ceurstemont/New Scientist Female dragonflies use an extreme tactic to get rid of unwanted suitors: they drop out the sky and then pretend to be dead. Rassim Khelifa from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, witnessed the behaviour for the first time in the moorland hawker dragonfly (Aeshna juncea). While collecting their larvae in the Swiss…
Hunter Killed After Shot Elephant Falls Over And Crushes Him
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Humanity, in plenty of ways, has had a profoundly negative impact on wildlife. From throwing them into volcanoes to overzealously feeding them when we shouldn’t, it’s not surprising that animals sometimes decide that they’ve had enough, and fight back. Big game hunter Theunis Botha reportedly learned this lesson the hard way. Stalking…
South Pacific Island Uninhabited For 600 Years Is Drowning In Plastic
By: Stephen Luntz/IFL Science There truly is no Earthly escape from the waste we have unleashed into the environment. Henderson Island in the South Pacific has been found to host hundreds of pieces of plastic per square meter of beach, with even more items buried in the sand. World heritage site Henderson Island is among the…