AP Photo / Catalina Island Marine Institute

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of an 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish.

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Alligator hunters in Mississippi broke the state's record for the biggest gator ever caught. Dustin Bockman and his two partners captured the male alligator Sunday after chasing it for two hours on the Mississippi River.
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A new species of shark that “walks” along the seabed using its fins as tiny legs has been discovered in eastern Indonesia, an environmental group said Friday.

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1. Albert Einstein, Summer 1939, Nassau Point, Long Island, NY

 

 

Colorized by Edvos on Reddit | Paul Edwards

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Michel de Nostredame (14 or 21 December 1503 – 2 July 1566), usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties (The Prophecies), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events.

10. The Great Fire of London

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Wolves howl when they're separated from their closest friends, according to a new study published in Current Biology. As highly social animals, wolves will howl more frequently when a close friend has wandered away from the pack, the study found.

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One of the greatest facets of reddit are the thriving subreddits, niche communities of people who share a passion for a specific topic. The major contributors are a mix of professional and amateur colorizers that bring historic photos to life through color. All of them are highly skilled digital artists that use a combination of historical reference material and a natural eye for colour.

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The original Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a two-story wooden structure, was opened in 1910, but the larger brick and concrete structure as it stand today was completed in 1926. The hospital was always dedicated to the treatment of tuberculosis patients, a disease that was fairly common in the early 20th Century.

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One of the most haunted places in the world is Alcatraz Island. Mainly because of the prison located the island. Before the prison was even built paranormal activities occurred. The island has a history of being thought as evil. Before the prison was built the natives that used the island for isolation viewed the island as having a mist of evil cast upon it. After the construction of the prison more bizarre happenings came about (Spring). Whether or not the island is really haunted is still a mystery. Nobody can really say whether or not the island is really haunted. It’s really based on one’s opinions if they believe in the paranormal or not.

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Ancient Egyptian beads found in a 5,000-year-old tomb were made from iron meteorites that fell to Earth from space, according to a new study. The beads, which are the oldest known iron artifacts in the world, were crafted roughly 2,000 years before Egypt's Iron Age.

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A young Chinese boy who was born with beaming blue eyes has stunned medics with his ability to see in pitch black darkness.

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Green Lake in Tragoess, Austria, doubles as a park and a lake bed. In the winter, it’s a park, complete with hiking trails and park benches. When the ice and snow on the mountains melt during the summer, the lake fills up. All the trees, trails, and benches are still there, but you need scuba gear to see them.

 

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1. Easter Island

Off the coast of Chile, Easter Island doesn’t boast any stories of people disappearing or black magic. It is, however, the home of these wicked warrior statues, some up to 50 feet high. The real question about this island is who carved them and how they got there. What mysterious force do you think made them appear? I guess the only thing to do is to go ask one of the 200 native people living on the island. My bet, though, is that communicating with them might prove fruitless considering there is virtually no knowledge of who they are originally.

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When Paul Sahner arrived in New York City nine years ago, he began to take photographs and short videos of the city as a way of familiarizing himself with New York's topography, and to discover and explore his new city.

In the years since he began the project, Sahner began to feel overtaken by a sense of urgency to document the city exactly as he was seeing it in any particular moment.

'I'm not sure if it's simply that I'm paying attention more than I used to or if there is an actual shift going on, but the rise and fall of neighborhoods seems to be taking up an accelerated pace,' he says.

'Once this time, this moment, has passed it will never return.'

Sahner's project, he says, is not merely about documenting streets and buildings, but rather moments in time.

In this spirit, Sahner began making fascinating 'Before and After' shots. Pairing his own contemporary photographs with shots taken from the beginning to the end of the 20th century, Sahner creates a fascinating contrast of the same place in different eras.

Sahner's website NYC Grid adds another layer of interest to the comparison with a toggle function that allows users to slide back and forth across the photograph revealing more or less of the before and after images.

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The bizarre-looking body of an unidentified sea creature washed up on the shores of a Spanish beach last week, setting off wild speculation that a sea monster from the deep had been discovered.

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Police uncovered 40 pythons in a hotel room in Canada. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Police discovered 40 pythons in a motel room in Canada on Thursday. Investigators said the snakes were kept in plastic storage bins and looked "troubled.

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Newly declassified CIA documents have revealed some of the history behind Nevada's Area 51. The area was never home to aliens or UFOs, but it was a super secret site for testing spy planes such as the U-2.

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Vlado Taneski made a name for himself for his in-depth coverage of a serial killer’s actions in his home town of Kicevo, Macedonia. Four elderly women in the town mysteriously disappeared under similar circumstances between 2003 and 2008.

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Pain is officially defined as, “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage,” yet is experienced differently by each person and organism. Because of this it is extremely difficult to describe just how an animal experiences pain. To study how an animal experiences pain “argument-by-analogy” is applied. This means if the animal reacts in a similar way to how we would, we believe they are experiencing pain.

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The second of Royal Caribbean’s world-changing Oasis-class ships, Allure of the Seas is a few inches longer than her older sister-ship Oasis of the Seas, and so technically holds the crown as the largest cruise ship ever built, measuring in at 225,282 gross tons and carrying a remarkable 5,400 guests at double occupancy, plus nearly 3,000 crewmembers.

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