Author: Daniel Tom
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An unknown object streaked past Curiosity—silent and swift—vanishing into the Martian haze, leaving behind whispers of something watching.
The two photographs analyzed here were taken by Rover Curiosity’s Right Navigation Camera on Sol 3613 (5 October 2022) and according to Jean Ward’s calculation the two photographs were taken 12 seconds apart. Seen in these photographs is what appears to be an atmospheric anomaly; something like an object moving across the field of view…
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“Mama, help me!” the calf cried, struggling over the tree—until loving trunks lifted him, showing the world the power of family.
This is the adorable moment a baby elephant and its family walk through an area cleared by lumberjacks. Phantom the elephant was filmed struggling to cross a fallen tree trunk in Chowkham village, in north east India, on Monday afternoon The elephant family are regulars in the village and a local tends to them and uses…
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While tidying the park, I met a gentle elephant with a deformed leg—yet his quiet strength lifted me through my darkest days.
One of the most significant moments in my life came one afternoon about five months ago, when I was volunteering in an elephant sanctuary in Thailand. I was tidying the park as part of my duties when I came across a beautiful, solitary elephant with a badly deformed front leg. Concerned as to why she…
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“Mama, please wake up,” the baby elephant whimpered, nudging her still body, clinging to a love that death couldn’t erase.
The five-month-old lovingly laid his trunk on her as the emotional drama was played out in Samburu, northern Kenya. The baby elephant was discovered holding a vigil for his dead mother in Samburu, north Kenya Such was the five-month-old’s devotion, he was oblivious to the cold, and threat of predators An autopsy later revealed that…
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Hidden beneath Pluto’s icy silence, a disk-shaped craft waits in a crater, hinting at cosmic travelers who never left.
A high-resolution image of Pluto taken in 2015 by New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) in “ride-along” mode with the LEISA spectrometer shows a region called ‘the dark, forbidding region informally known as Cthulhu Regio, and the mysterious, possibly cryovolcanic edifice Wright Mons.’ Among the many notable details, is a saucer-shaped object with on top…
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An unknown object streaks past Mars Rover Curiosity—silent, swift, and untraceable, leaving behind only questions in the Martian dust.
The two photographs analyzed here were taken by Rover Curiosity’s Right Navigation Camera on Sol 3613 (5 October 2022) and according to Jean Ward’s calculation the two photographs were taken 12 seconds apart. Seen in these photographs is what appears to be an atmospheric anomaly; something like an object moving across the field of view…
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Captured by FLIR, the eerie UFO floats like a rubber duck in the sky—classified footage not meant to see the light of day.
A FLIR camera captures a strange UFO with an uncanny resemblance to a rubber duck. A US surveillance aircraft being flown by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) captured by using their thermal optics system (FLIR) at around 9pm on November 23, 2019 a very strange “rubber duck” shaped UFO flying at a speed between 90…
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Dumped in a filthy cage, the baby lions cry out, alone and scared, clinging to life in a world that’s forgotten them.
These cute little lion babies have not been around for long, but they have had a lot of terrible experiences already. Kossara and Simba were born in early July in a shabby and dirty enclosure in a zoo in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Their parents are siblings and were only given to the zoo on loan. The…
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Starving and trembling in blood-soaked cages, the abandoned animals await help that never came, forgotten in the chaos of war.
Suffering animals at Taiz Zoo would have all died, had three volunteers not stepped in to help ZOO animals trapped in the middle of war-torn Yemen are being reduced to flesh and bone. Lions and leopards have been left in dirty urine stained cages soaked in blood at Taiz Zoo. Starving animals are being reduced…
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Their ribs jutting through fragile skin, the five lions stare with hollow eyes—living ghosts trapped in a Sudanese nightmare called a zoo.
Online calls are growing to help save five ‘malnourished and sick’ African lions held at a park in Sudan’s capital, with some demanding the creatures be shifted to a better habitat. The five lions are held in cages at Khartoum’s Al-Qureshi Park in an upscale district of the capital, but for weeks now they have…