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Meet resilient 'living fossil' older than dinosaurs, nuclear blast survivor

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A Gingko biloba tree on a central square in Strasbourg, eastern France, November 25, 2022. — AFP In the first three seconds after the nuclear bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima by the US army in 1945, temperatures spiked to 7,000°F from ground zero to as far as two...

'Drill man' earns Guinness World Record for stopping fans with tongue

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Kranthi Kumar Panikera posing with his Guinness World Record medal and posing at an airport. — Instagram/@guinnessworldrecords/@kranthidrillman A man from Telangana has achieved a Guinness World Record after he stopped electric fan blades from his tongue in one...

Spinning a tune: Chinese scientist names new spider species after pop songs

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This is a representational image of a spider. — Unsplash BEIJING: A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular "Mandopop" musician Jay Chou. Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China's southwestern Guizhou province, listed the...

Lost boy survives five days in Zimbabwe park teeming with lions

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Tinotenda Pundu walks through the harsh terrain of the lion-infested park for 49km from his village. — X/@@mutsamu A seven-year-old boy was found alive after being lost for five days in a reserve home to lions and other wild animals in northern Zimbabwe, the wildlife authority said...

Orca observed moving another dead calf

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J35 with her calf J61 that died, December 22, 2024. — Facebook/Center for Whale Research A bereaved female killer whale who carried her dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 has again lost a newborn and is bearing its body, US marine researchers said. Scientists...

Kind neighbour with drone helps rescuing dog off frozen lake

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A representational image of a small dog. — Unsplash/File A kind neighbour helped in rescuing a dog that spent nearly a day stranded on the thin ice covering a New Jersey lake in harsh weather. Brooklyn, a 20-month old pooch, was spotted on the ice covering Lake...

Girl who vanished in 1972 found alive 52 years later

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Sheila Fox poses for a photo prior to his disappearance in 1972. — West Midlands Police/File In a surprising incident, a woman who mysteriously vanished in 1972 from West Midlands in the United Kingdom has finally been found alive. Sheila Fox mysteriously...