I have an irrational fear — wait, scratch that — I have a completely rational fear of alligators and crocodiles. They’re scaly dinosaurs that chomp with the power of 2000 warlords and were put on this Earth to kill us. And they were even worse two million to four million years ago because they were three storeys tall.
Screw ghost riding the whip, forget flash mobs. There’s a new internet craze threatening our children: taunting lizards and amphibians with fake food on your smartphone. Sure it’s cute when they’re crushing virtual insects but it’s not so cute when they attack your finger.
This California King Snake amazingly has two rare disorders: it’s albino and has two heads. That combination only comes about every 50 years. Surprisingly though, the two-headedism (or polycephaly) of the snake is actually more common than albinism.
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Snakes can fly and they don’t need a plane to do it. The freaky freaky beasts flatten their bodies and angle their bodies so they glide through the air, which make them capable of flying from tree to tree.
This is the Concavenator corcovatus, a new species of dinosaur discovered in Cuenca, Spain. It’s the first ever dinosaur with a hump. This weird 6m-long predator could be the predecessor of the meat-eating titans that dominated the Cretaceous. But what’s that hump? It could be his battery.
