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  More than 200 years ago, the crew of the HMS Warren Hastings reported being attacked by giant balls of fire that descended from the sky. The mysterious fireballs reportedly set the ship on fire and killed several people. A century later, a “dazzling globe of electric fire” appeared in the cottage where British occultist Aleister Crowley was staying, which he described in detail in his autobiography. He claimed that the floating orb instantly exploded, slightly shocking his hand. Frightening, cryptic, and potentially dangerous, this phenomenon is known today as ball lightning. Sightings of mysterious floating balls of light have captivated humanity across many different cultures, inspiring a myriad of fantastical explanations and mythical stories. In Australian Outback folklore they are called Min Min lights—strange fuzzy balls of light that follow people around at night. The Japanese hitodama are ghostly balls of fire thought to be the apparitions of souls separated from their ph...

  For years, no one knew why female chimpanzees prefer to give birth alone. The birth of chimpanzees in nature is rarely seen by researchers, mostly because pregnant women often take "maternity leave" from their family units, hiding themselves until their children were born. On December 2, 2014, researcher Hitonaru Nishie and Michio Nakamura witnessed birth in the Mahala Mountains in Tanzania. For unknown reasons, this mother does not take maternity leave; He drove in front of about 20 other knots. As Nishie and Nakamura watched, the baby "grabbed immediately after giving birth and consequently conquered by adult men," a sight that made them argued that cannibalism was the reason a chimpanzee mother often left her group before labor began. Babies are not the only chimpanzees that are risky. In the planet earth segment narrated by David Attenborough, a chimpanzee family in Africa the accidental attack stage in the nearest enemy: other chimpanzees. When some attackers...

  When the 18th century Zoology George Shaw published the first scientific description of the plaatypus, many of his contemporaries did not believe that animals were real. Shaw himself initially believed the specimen became a trick consisting of part of the body from different animals, sewn together to create the resemblance of extraordinary creatures. With bills, webbed feet, and behavior such as eggs lay eggs and produce poisons that oppose other known mammals norms, it is not difficult to see how platypus avoids the recognition of European naturalists, who have just begun to observe and categorize unique fauna found in Australia. Reminiscent of the classic line of DC comics, scientists and observers find themselves asking: Is it a bird? Is this a plane? Maybe the transitional reptile species that display initial mammal physiology? Platypus, like Superman, nothing above. Found in the new water and estuary of Australia, Platypus is a small hairy mammal with different bills and ta...

  Jian Han, Universitas Northwest, China In 2017, our family tree got a little higher: the team of international scientists identified well-maintained fossils from the primitive sea creatures they said were the oldest ancestors known from various animals, including humans. Saccornhytus creatures named microscopic after the body shape such as his bag in the early Period of the Cambrian around 540 million years ago. Saccorhytus will only be around one millimeter and will live between sand granules on the seabed. To the naked, fossils, found in Central China, looks like dark spots in limestone . However, under an electron microscope, however, it is possible to see significant details: the creatures are bilaterally symmetrical with a body dominated by a large hole that might be used for food waste and excretations (researchers do not find anal signs.) , The body's body cover might be thin and flexible, indicating that it can move by stretching or making a contract movement. Arranged ...

  This question is fully anthropocentric. The only "earth is", even though it has switched constant since its formation. There is no instant existence in the past earth or future which can be considered better or worse, except in human terms. In Western Europe, the human society in depth changed the landscape during the bronze age and its surroundings with the opening of forests and periodic burning, promoting the dominance of the bush community known as Heathlands. Many insects, amphibians, birds and plants are growing rapidly on them, and may be extinct if the Heathlands disappear. Similar cases can be found in other environments such as dry cereal of Mediterranean farmland or a mixture of tree grass in Spanish Dehes. Without human intervention, the landscape will be more homogeneous, and fewer species will live there. Unfortunately, humans are also responsible for the replacement of this landscape with those with low biodiversity due to more intensive use. Mike followed S...

  In December 1997 Oprah Winfrey, The American Talk Show Host, and Howard Lyman, a former cattle farmer and then the director of eating a human society with the Curios Campaign, was sued by the Federal District Court in Texas on accusation of underestimated beef. The lawsuit, which grew from the 1996 segment of the Oprah Winfrey event called "dangerous food," the burial debate and occasionally humor in the press about whether it is possible to slander hamburgers. Although Winfrey and Lyman finally won in court, the laws where the lawsuit was brought, a fake decline in food products that were easily damaged (1995), remained in books in Texas, as well as similar laws in 12 other states. Known as laws lack food, food-food-food, or "veggie-libel", this law is designed to enable agricultural and food companies to prevent candidates for critics to instill the safety of their products. They continue to serve that purpose today. "Oprah" case "Dangerous food,...

  In December 1996, national attention in the United States turned to new resolutions passed by the UNIFIED OAKLAND school district (OUSD). The controversial resolution defines what is called "Ebonics" as a separate language of English, so that it is better to meet the population needs of African-American American students who are talking and corrected by teachers who believe it becomes a slang or inappropriate. English. The purpose of the resolution is to familiarize educators with AVE and expand the district bilingual program to make speakers. The decision was filled with a direct counter-attack from politicians - such as Pastor Jesse Jackson, who called the resolution of "unacceptable submission" and "borderlining on disgrace." Less than a month later the Linguistic Society of America unanimously releases a statement that supports the OUSD decision, quoting the systematic nature of Ebonics as a legitimate reason for being recognized as a different ling...