“It will be the biggest star of the park,” said Mayor Elorde. “The villagers, of course, are very happy that they have been able to turn this dangerous crocodile from a threat into an asset.” But the 37,000 people who live in the region have been told not to rest on their laurels. Many other large crocodiles remain in the rivers and people have been told not to venture into marsh areas alone at n…
Medusa, the world’s largest snake weighs more than 300 lbs (135 kg), is 25ft (7.5 meters) long and it takes 15 people to hold her. Medusa, a massive python is set to slither into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest snake living in captivity. The giant snake, which will be on display at the Edge of Hell haunted house attraction in Kansas City, eats a 40lb animal about o…
Mark Moffett, a nature-lover has revealed how he spent two days tracking down a giant insect, weta, on a remote New Zealand island – and got it to eat a carrot out of his hand. Mark Moffett, 53, from Colorado, found that giant weta, genus Deinacrida of the family Anostostomatidae, is the world’s biggest insect in terms of weight. The insect weighs 71g and is heavier than a sparrow and three…
…is surprisingly free of craters, implying that geological activity is constantly reshaping the moon, as also happens here. The icy landscape of Titan was first discovered by Earth-bound researchers in 2004, when the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft which orbits Saturn first broke through the moon’s atmosphere. Astronomers studying Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have described it as "a wei…
The world’s largest book has been put on public display in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s Dubai at IBN Battuta Mall. The book, named “This is Muhammad”, entered the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest book on February 27. It took professional workers 16 months to finish the 5-meter-long, 4.03-meter-wide and 1.5-ton book, which is estimated to be worth 2.9…
An IBM team in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms can be discerned. The same pioneering team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published images of a molecule shaped like the Olympic rings. The new work opens up the prospect of studying imperfections in the “wonder material” graphen…
…pected to fetch $1.15 million Despite the doubt, Jeff Nechka said that he was confident the stone has been priced accordingly. “If it was solid, untreated emerald, you would be looking at 10 or 20 times the value for sure,” Jeff Nechka told JCK. Regan Reaney, the Calgary gem wholesaler who is selling the stone, told JCK that anyone who questions the stone is welcome to examine it. “This is…
NASA has released the first spectacular images taken by the Mars rover Curiosity, detailing a mound of layered rock where scientists plan to focus their search for the chemical ingredients of life on the Red Planet. The stunning photographs reveal distinct tiers of near the base of the 3-mile-tall mountain that rises from the floor of the vast, ancient impact basin known as Gale Crater, where Cur…
Lolong, the one-ton crocodile caught in Bunawan, Philippines, has been named the world’s largest saltwater crocodile in captivity. The Associated Press reports that Lolong was caught by locals last September. On Monday, the Guinness Book of World Records declared that the 20.24 feet, 1000 pound crocodile was the largest in captivity. At the time of the crocodile’s capture, Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde…
The Tropical Islands Resort in Krausnick, Germany, is the world’s largest indoor beach with 400 sunloungers – and not a cloud in sight. Yet with up to 6,000 visitors allowed in at a time, there are bound to be towel-fights over them – especially as this “indoors paradise” is in Germany. The Tropical Islands Resort in Krausnick, south of Berlin, also boasts the largest indoor pool, 50,000-p…
…ble to classify a huge range of terrain. Dr. Jason Ur said this had removed subjectivity and allowed them to look at a much larger area. In all, about 9,000 possible settlements were identified across 23,000 sq km. Ideally, Dr. Jason Ur said, some of these would be excavated, but the volatile political situation in Syria had forced them to put any ground searches on hold. However, Dr. Jason Ur sai…
…ysis of images “indicates that North Korea continues to develop long-range missiles”. There had been at least two tests of rocket motors since a failed rocket launch in April, it said. The 30 m (100 ft) rocket crashed into the sea shortly after take off. Pyongyang said the launch was aimed at putting a satellite into orbit, but it was widely criticized by the US, South Korea and Japan…
…fter Kate was admitted to hospital with extreme morning sickness, sparked by a rare condition called Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), they had little choice but to make the announcement. Kate Middleton, 30, who is thought to be between six and eight weeks pregnant, was taken to the hospital just after lunch on Sunday by her husband and put on a drip to stop her becoming dehydrated. But the news deli…
A new world record for the largest ukulele ensemble has been set in Yokohama, Japan, at the Ukulele Picnic Week event. More than 2,000 strummers gathered in Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest city, to trump the previous record set in Sweden. The group was watched by Guinness World Records officials, AFP news agency said, and played a song called Aloha Mahalo A Hui Ho, written by a Hawaii-born…
Australia announces that it will create the world’s largest network of marine parks ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The reserves will cover 3.1 million sq km of ocean, including the Coral Sea. Restrictions will be placed on fishing and oil and gas exploration in the protected zone covering more than a third of Australia’s waters. Environment Minister Tony Burke, who made the announc…
imes the daily recommended allowance of 2,500 calories for a man. The gastronomic gauntlet is the latest in what the eatery hopes will be a long line of food challenges and follows the creation of the 3 lbs cheeseburger, which has yet to be successfully tackled by any contender. Dean Key, 30, director of Smokey’s, said he began seeking out a new challenge following his customers failed attempts to…
;t afford to support my family on $16,000 a year,” Sarah Gilbert a striking worker in Seattle told AOL. According to Glassdoor.com, the average Wal-Mart sales associate earns $8.83 an hour. If working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, their annual salary would be $18,400. On Wednesday the latest public smear against the company came from the mouth and public arrest of a former employee seen handcu…
…nown as “Clabbydhhu” in Gaelic (translates as “enormous black mouth”) these slow-growing mollusks can live to nearly 50 years old. Off the west coast, very rare Fan Mussels were found – at up to 48 cm long, this is Scotland’s largest sea shell. Around the Small Isles more than 100 specimens were discovered, the largest aggregation in UK waters. With golden threads likened to human hair…
mount of material and a great range of conditions,” the Cardiff University, UK, researcher said. To provide a sense of scale, the Horsehead Nebula, also known in the catalogues as “Barnard 33″, is about five light-years “tall”. Hubble telescope sees the Horsehead in near-infrared light. Herschel, on the other hand, goes to much longer wavelengths. This allows it to se…
…spacecraft passed Enceladus, the cameras made a nine-frame mosaic of the surface of Enceladus’s leading hemisphere. Cassini then flew by the small moon Janus with a closest approach distance of 44,000 km. The planet was in the background in some of these views. On 28 March, the spacecraft passed Dione at roughly the same distance and captured, among other observations, a nine-frame mosaic d…
Ebb, one of two washing-machine-sized NASA spacecrafts, has sent back a gallery of images of Earth from an orbit just 35 miles above the moon surface. American middle school pupils at the Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Montana, directed the “MoonKam” to areas of the surface which caught their attention. The school won a national competition to be first – but other schools aro…
fferent items on the map, displayed on a screen. They include a huge tangle of the remains of a deckhouse; a large chunk of the side of the ship measuring more than 60 feet long and weighing more than 40 tons; pieces of the ship’s bottom; and a hatch cover that blew off of the bow section as it crashed to the bottom. Other items include five of the ship’s huge boilers, a revolving door…
…g site in the equatorial Gale Crater provides the first real ground truth for those observations. By luck, the rover just happened to roll past a spectacular example of the conglomerate. A large slab, 10-15 cm thick, was lifted out of the ground at an angle. “We’ve named it Hottah,” said rover project scientist John Grotzinger. The name refers to a lake in Canada’s Northwes…
ly superior. For instance, scientists at the University of Nottingham created a microscopic portrait of the Queen to mark the Diamond Jubilee that was so small it could fit on a standard postage stamp 300,000 times. Lena Soderberg’s picture was first used as a test image in 1973. An assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Proces…
…hat photographers cannot see themselves but can then detect when the image is viewed later.” Most consumer cameras currently on the market are capable of taking photographs ranging from eight to 40 megapixels. Pixels are basically individual “dots” of data – and the higher the number of pixels, the better resolution of the image. The researchers believe that within five yea…
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