Amazing Nature

[STEVE G]

The same picture, along with the story of the discovery of that Giant Oarfish on Corronado Island, can be found spread over pages 20 and 21 of the US Navy's "All Hands" magazine of April 1997. You can download it here, although you get the whole magazine and it's over 17MB:

http://www.navy.mil/media/allhands/acrobat/ah199704.pdf

I imagine that someone in the military first produced the Thai version as a practical joke and it's spread from there.

[STEVE G]

And to get back more on to the original topic, this is apparently the only time that a Giant Oarfish has been filmed in it's natural habitat:

[traveller2]

Here are some photos from my trip down the pacific coast highway in the US.

[traveller2]

1st and last photos are in Yosemite Valley (a slight diversion from route 1) and the middle 2 are taken from the highway. I hope you like them.

[dtaai-maai]

And to get back more on to the original topic, this is apparently the only time that a Giant Oarfish has been filmed in it's natural habitat:

Fascinating, thank you.

[hhfarang]

Makes me homesick!

[STEVE G]

Another big fish!

Giant whale shark hauled onshore in Pakistan
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/08/asia/ ... hpt=hp_mid

[pharvey]

Incredible creature - accidentally caught up in fishing nets as The Guardian reports, or hunted?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blo ... tional_pop

[sandman67]

Scientists finally work out why Zebras are stripey....it keeps the flies off!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16944753

[Nereus]

Shark eats shark in reef kill

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/br ... reef-kill/

Rare evidence of a shark eating another in the Great Barrier Reef has surfaced.

Environmental journal Coral Reefs has published an image showing a wobbegong shark eating a brown-banded bamboo shark at Great Keppel Island.

Staff at Coral Reefs spotted the opportunistic kill during a study of the area and said the sight was a rare occurrence.

"During the 30-minute observation period, neither shark moved position and the wobbegong did not further ingest the bamboo shark," the journal said.

"We assume that it would have taken at least several more hours for the wobbegong to completely consume the bamboo shark."

[traveller2]

Makes me homesick!

Its certainly got some beautiful scenery HHF. I would like to go back sometime and spend more time exploring.

t2

[pharvey]

Another post on the Northern Lights...... sorry, it's a favorite

This time time-lapse images from the ISS.

Nasa release time-lapse images of Northern Lights seen from space

Stunning new images of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, have been released by Nasa after they were captured by the International Space Station.

The US space agency has taken numerous images of the Northern Lights over the years, but these are the first "moving" pictures ever seen.

Made by combining hundreds of photographs taken by digital cameras on-board the International Space Station, the results are some of the clearest, highest resolution images of space ever seen.

Full story and images can be viewed at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/ ... space.html

[PeteC]

Another post on the Northern Lights...... sorry, it's a favorite

I was lucky enough to see them many times in the past, from 35,000 feet. I used to take the Pan Am night flight from San Francisco to London often back in the 80's. It flew the Northern route and if you sat on the left side of the plane you could enjoy the show for more than an hour. Spectacular indeed! Pete

[Big Boy]

On 6 Feb 12

Friends of ours have a very similar (if not the same) picture hanging in their hallway in Carmarthen. I'll be visiting next week or the week after, and I'll try to find out more. If it's not the same, I'll take a photo of the photo, and post it.

Sorry guys, I went to Carmarthen yesterday, and the photo had gone. Nobody could understand what I had been talking about (nothing new there then ).

[pharvey]

Nobody could understand what I had been talking about (nothing new there then ).

Well, I'd have to go along with them....... especially regarding rugby!!