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“This disproves the claim we don't know anything about the deep sea." VIDEO AT LINK.............. It might be much of a looker, but this is one of the deepest fish ever seen on camera. Image Credit: Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre ====================================================================== In 2023, scientists captured fish at depths exceeding 8 kilometers (4.8 miles) and recorded them even deeper. These findings not only set new records for deep-sea fish, but also suggest we may be nearing the maximum depths at which fish can exist. At the western edge of the Pacific Ocean lies a series of trenches down to 11,000...

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2025 headed toward both record dog attack fatalities & record pit bull-inflicted fatalities BAXLEY, Georgia; DAYTONA BEACH, Florida; NASHUA, New Hampshire; BACLIFF, TEXAS––Nine pit bulls killed four people in five days between October 8, 2025 and October 12, 2025. That brought the 2025 U.S. dog attack death toll to 70, just five behind the record toll of 75 reached in 2024, with 52 confirmed deaths by pit bull, five behind the record toll of 57, reached in 2023. The four most recent victims included three people who were killed by their own or their own family’s pit bulls, plus 86-year-old...

A truck hauling rhesus monkeys, described as “aggressive” and initially reported to be infected with various pathogens (e.g., hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID), overturned on Interstate 59 in Mississippi.

The Landlady's Tale By SWORDMAKER copyright 2000Preface The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (so much so that although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it.In the 1970s, I personally...

Why are people panicking about the weather? Climate doomer Bill Gates thinks everyone should just calm down. He believes “climate change” is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of humanity as we know it, a 17-page memo released Tuesday by the billionaire reveals. Gates now thinks scientific innovation will curb any threats — real and perceived — to the planet’s climate and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” away from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease. The 70-year-old said in the memo the world’s primary goal should now work to prevent...

We spoke to the Dogs of Chernobyl program to find out what's going on. Three blue dogs were pictured in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on October 6, 2025. Image courtesy of Clean Futures Fund Dogs with blue fur have been spotted snooping in Chernobyl, the restricted area surrounding the epicenter of the infamous nuclear disaster. Rest assured, the dogs have not changed color due to any freakish mutation from decades of radiation – the explanation is likely to be far more mundane, if not a little bit gross. Speaking to IFLScience, researchers from the Dogs of Chernobyl program confirmed that...

An Indian man who was in the United States illegally is in custody after a stabbing that took place aboard an airliner on Saturday. Praneeth Kumar Usiripalli, 28, is charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm while traveling on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, according to a Department of Justice news release. The incident took place aboard a Lufthansa flight from Chicago that had been scheduled to land in Frankfurt, Germany. The incident took place while the plane was over the Atlantic, according to MassNewsLive....

The driver who drove off the Santa Cruz Wharf on Sunday morning has been identified. The coroner's office identified him as William Westerman, 65, of Scotts Valley. Westerman died after being rescued from his vehicle in the water. According to the Santa Cruz Fire Department, crews from multiple agencies responded to reports of the incident at 9:44 a.m. A dog that was also in the vehicle was rescued and is expected to survive. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

A group of sick Palestinian children have been evacuated from Gaza to Ireland to receive medical treatment, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health have confirmed. Seven children arrived in Dublin on Saturday evening, with 29 accompanying family members.It marks the third medical evacuation from Gaza following Government approval in September last year in response to an appeal from the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the health needs of Gazans. Doctors from Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) worked with the WHO to identify sick and injured children who would benefit from treatment in Ireland. The group traveled from Gaza to Jordan...

The naked body of a young woman was found stuffed in a green duffel bag and dumped on a sidewalk in Manhattan, according to police and sources. MTA Police were called to 125th and Park Ave. in East Harlem shortly before 7 p.m. on Monday after a passerby made the grisly find underneath the Metro-North railway. The body was described as that of a white female in her 20s, inside of a black garbage bag, which was then left in a green duffle bag secured by a drawstring and dumped on the sidewalk, sources told The Post.

We are so screwed. It's over, babe. Everyone who died, died.Name one thing that isn't fouling up. You can't do it.We're all losing our jobs and the shutdown is going to cause riots and nobody will make it.We're all gonna die!!!!

The "bucket drop", invented by a missionary trying to airdrop gifts to natives in Ecuador, would let warplanes release a swarm of drones and lasso them back. The warplane of the future is a drone mothership, able to dispatch swarms of small air-launched UAVs for close-up reconnaissance, to act as jammers or decoys, or even to carry out airstrikes. Those drones may be cheap enough to be expendable, but what if you want to recover them? The Air Force has the answer, using a technique developed by a 1950's jungle pilot and missionary. Researchers are now experimenting with ways to...

Whales are great security, but it’s not always the gentlest rescue. Image credit: Andrea Izzotti / Shutterstock.com ========================================================== While filming on location off Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, whale scientist Nan Hauser was swimming towards two humpback whales when one of them started charging at her. When it approached, it started moving as if it were trying to tuck her under its fin – not a very comfortable maneuver for a human being hugged by a multi-ton giant with razor-sharp barnacles on its fins. Fearing for her life, things only got scarier as the humpback whale hoisted her out of...

Obviously both are important and require a massive shift away from the status-quo, but if you had to pick one, which is more critical for the well-being of America?I'd personally think immigration reform is slightly more important, but understand if that's not as critical to some others.

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau took their romance public Saturday night ... the lovebirds went out on a date in Paris, France, to celebrate Katy's 41st birthday. For their first official outing, Katy and Justin took in a cabaret show at the Crazy Horse Paris, where the paparazzi waited in anticipation for them out front. TMZ obtained exclusive video of what happened next ... After the show, the couple walked out of the theater hand-in-hand, and a fan gave Katy a rose and wished her happy birthday. The two then walked to a waiting vehicle as the shutterbugs snapped photos...

In another shocking case out of Sweden, Swedish girl Meya Åberg was assaulted and raped by African migrant Yazied Mohamed while on her way home from work at McDonald’s in Skellefteå when she was only 16 years old. However, despite the migrant being sentenced to prison, he will escape deportation, with the four judges out of a five-judge panel citing his belief that the rape did not last long enough to merit deportation. In fact, after the rape, the victim was confronted with seeing her rapist, Mohamed, at school, at work, and around the town she lived in, showing just...

This ancient fossil holds the oldest intact brain ever discovered, and it looks strikingly like that of a spider, © Credit: Nicholas Strausfeld Share this post A fossil found in southern China has revealed something scientists rarely get to see: the incredibly well-preserved brain and nervous system of a 520-million-year-old creature. It belonged to a now-extinct marine animal with big front claws and a body that shares surprising similarities with today’s spiders and scorpions. The fossil, part of the Alalcomenaeus genus, offers a detailed snapshot of early arthropod evolution. Researchers discovered that its nervous system, especially the brain and nerve...

VIDEO AT LINK.................... FOREST HILL, Md. — Someone appears to have abandoned an alligator Thursday night at a reptile shop in Harford County. The Harford County Sheriff's Office said deputies were called to the parking lot of a reptile shop in Forest Hill, where an alligator appeared to have been intentionally abandoned with its mouth taped shut. Deputies found the alligator, secured it and called a reptile rescue for assistance. "With last night's temperature dropping to near freezing, without the timely intervention from our deputies and the shop owner, it's unlikely that the alligator would have survived," the sheriff's office...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, October 20, 2025. Evaristo Sa / AFP. The persecution of ordinary citizens on behalf of the LGBT movement will be funded by the state—that is, by the taxpayers being targeted. President Lula da Silva’s Brazil has taken another step towards totalitarianism with the launch of a massive platform designed to streamline the prosecution of those who criticize LGBT ideology. With Orwellian irony, it has been called the ‘Platform of Respect.’ “The Ministry of Human Rights, in partnership with the NGO Aliança Nacional LGBTI+, launched a platform aimed at holding legally accountable authors of...