SCIENCE

Five-day-old Green Anaconda

Naturalist To Test What It’s Like To Be Eaten By Anaconda

While stories of people maimed and eaten by wild beasts such as crocodiles, tigers and gorillas become viral because of the gory, but interesting nature of the event, a naturalist plans to do the unexpected and be eaten by a snake deliberately, not by accident.
A man shows students a poster on the symptoms of Ebola during a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Ebola awareness drive in Gueupleu, Man, western Ivory Coast November 3, 2014.

Hoax Alert: Ebola Caused By Eating Doritos

Latest hoax claims that Doritos bags are infected by Ebola virus. The prank emerged on 4chan and slowly spread on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, but Frito Lay quickly debunked the rumour.
More news
A White Cayman is seen at the Manu National Park in Peru's southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios July 16, 2014.

Florida Hunters Capture 765 Lb Alligator With Bare Hands

Crocodile Dundee's kin are probably in Florida hunting for reptiles. Last week, two such fellows captured a 346-kilogramme alligator measuring 4 metres. Besides the size of the reptile, what stood out is that the captors of the beast - Keithy Kelley and Kelly Sziy caught and killed the creature using their bare hands.
A Solar Flare Bursts Off The Left Limb Of The Sun In This Image Captured By NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

Hoax Alert: 6 Days Of Darkness In December

Hoax makers continued to create confusion and fear as they said that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US allegedly confirmed that the Earth would suffer six days of darkness in the last month of 2014. The Web site Huzlers.com identified the dark days from Dec 16 through 22.

Pages