A new species of Funnel Web Spider named Atrax christenseni and nicknamed ‘Big Boy’ is pictured next to the Sydney Funnel Web Spider in a […]
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Trump look-alike sings to sell pudding in Pakistan
Saleem Bagga, seen by some as a lookalike of US President-elect Donald Trump, sells kheer, a traditional South Asian rice pudding, along a road in […]
Hidden patterns in tattoos of 1,200-year-old Peru mummies revealed
A tattooed mummified hand from the 1,200-year-old Chancay culture in Peru that was studied using LSF technology. — Michael Pittman/Thomas G Kaye The intricate details […]
119-year-old Brazilian woman stakes claim as world’s oldest person
Geriatric doctor Juair de Abreu Pereira talks with his patient Deolira Gliceria Pedro da Silva, 119, in her house in Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro state, […]
World’s first chatbot ‘ELIZA’ ressurected from 60-year-old computer code
The original “ELIZA” code running on an emulated CTSS system. — YouTube@RupertLane The world’s first chatbot “ELIZA” has just been resurrected from long-lost computer code […]
Woman sets new world record for crushing watermelons with thighs
Gozde Dogan celebrating after achieving the record. — Guinness World Records/File A Turkish woman has registered a unique world record as she crushed five watermelons […]
Great white shark’s 9-million-year-old ancestor found in Peru
A person gestures next to a fossil of a crocodile as paleontologists unveil a 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark (not […]
Thousands anticipate ‘corpse flower’ rare bloom
Visitors look at a blooming Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), one of the world’s largest and rare tropical flowering plants, at Basel’s Botanical Garden September 29, […]
US judges rule elephants are not people, rejecting bid for release
An elephant named Happy is pictured in the Bronx Zoo, in New York City, New York, US, in this undated social media photo. — Reuters […]
Google under fire after Biden excluded from search results
The image shows a screenshot of the Google’s search results. — Geo News/File Google has apologised for a technical error that temporarily omitted the name […]