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Two-headed bobtail lizard found in Australia
It's been a while since we've had a decent two-headed animal on these pages. So, without further ado, we proudly present… the two-headed lizard.
The two-headed bobtail (a type of skink native to Australia, also known as the Shingleback) was rescued in Coogee, New South Wales, by workers from a reptile park.
Now housed at the reptile park in Henley Brook, Perth, it's doing well - despite the fact that two-headed lizards tend to not have very long life expectancies.
The lizard - which doesn't just have two heads, but has a set of forelegs on either side of each head - is even able to eat with both mouths.
The major downside of having two heads is that it makes moving around quite difficult, and the larger of the two heads has a tendency to try and attack the smaller head.
The bobtail's brother, who has just the one head, is also housed at the park.
Source:- Metro.co.uk
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Chocks away for world's biggest model aircraft ... shame £8,000 B-50 bomber can only fly for 8min
With Britain's skies in lockdown over the last week, this was about the only plane that could fly.
There's a good reason for that - it's just an electric model aircraft, albeit the world's biggest.
The Boeing B-50 Superfortress is classified as a light aircraft and is licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority.
Built by Tony Nijhuis in his garage the aircraft is a scale version of the US 1950s bomber, has a 20ft wingspan and weighs just over seven stones.
It took Mr Nijhuis, from Hastings, East Sussex, two years to make the radio-controlled plane that he calls the 'jolly green giant' and cost him £8,000.
The 46-year-old model-maker has spent 30 years making model aeroplanes and decided to create an electric version of the 1950s bomber from scratch.
It has 96 batteries that power four electric motors which drive the aircraft to 40mph along a 50m runway before it takes off.
It can then fly for eight minutes in the air before it has to descend so the batteries can be recharged.
Made from balsa wood and plywood, the plane also has workable bomb bay doors and pneumatic landing gear.
It is restricted to 400ft, but after the volcanic ash cloud grounded aircraft, Tony has been making the most of the empty skies.
The plane is 7:1 scale model and has entered the record books after being launched.
The father-of three, who works as a consultant engineer, said: 'This is the heaviest electric model aircraft in the world.
It's a model of the Boeing B-50 bomber that was used from the 1950s to the 1970s. It's all scratch built and has a wingspan of 19ft.
'It weighs just over 100lb and is powered by four, four kilowatt electric motors and each motor has 24 batteries powering it. The propellers have a 2ft diameter.
'I've been working on it on and off for the last two years and made it in a single garage.
'It comes in eight pieces and has to be bolted together.
'The bigger the planes are the easier they are to fly. This has elevator control, rudder control, pneumatically operated under carriage and the bomb bay doors open and could drop real bombs if you wanted.
'However, unlike smaller models, if this crashed it would disintegrate.
'Because of its size it is classed as a light aircraft and had to be tested by the Civil Aviation Authority and requires a certificate to fly it at public shows.
'We can only fly it for eight minutes because the batteries need charging and there is an alarm to let us know when the time is running out.
'But full size electric planes are being developed; the power is there, it's just that it needs to be sustained for longer.'
Source:- Dailymail.co.uk
Dubai Briton drops appeal and goes to jail for a month over a kiss
Charlotte Adams, a British woman convicted of kissing in public in Dubai, has been taken to jail after dropping her attempts to appeal against the ruling.
Miss Adams, 26, told friends she could no longer afford to fight the case or waste any more time stuck in Dubai, where her passport was taken away pending the outcome of the case.
She was accused of kissing Ayman Najafi, a British friend who lives in Dubai, while visiting the emirate last November.
The pair denied the case, saying they had given each other a peck on the cheek as a greeting in a restaurant in the Jumeirah Beach Residences complex.
A kiss of greeting does not contravene the emirate's strict public behaviour codes.
"Charlotte didn't have the time or resources to appeal again," Mr Najafi said today. "It's not an admission of guilt. She just had no chance – if she had an income and resources she would have fought on."
The couple were at Bob's Easy Diner at 2am in the early hours of November 27 when their kiss was seen by the children of an Emirati woman sitting on a nearby table.
She reported them to police and they were arrested, charged and found guilty even though prosecution lawyers were unable to make contact with the woman and ask her to give evidence. They were sentenced to a month in jail, and fined for being in public after consuming alcohol.
Their appeal was rejected earlier this month. Mr Najafi is hoping to appeal to the Court of Cassation – Dubai's highest court – on the grounds that the appeal court refused to hear evidence from a witness he wanted to call in his defence.
But he said he was still considering whether that was worth the extra cost and the four to five months a final appeal and rehearing would cost.
"I'm lucky enough to be in a position where I have an income," he said. "But though it's very difficult to accept I'm just weighing it up now.
"I know I have a chance but it's a hard call. There's no point in putting that time and those resources into it if I'm still not going to get a fair trial."
Mr Najafi works for a consultancy firm, which has kept his job and encouraged him to appeal. If his conviction stands, he will be deported at the end of his sentence.
He said Miss Adams, an estate agent from north London, was not looking forward to her sentence. "It was a bit of a shock," he said. "She's probably one of the only British people inside. But I think she's handling it quite well."
Source:- Telegraph And dailymail
Tea Maps shows workers pasting a tea map of china in the Badachu Park in Beijing. Various kinds of tea leaves are pasted to the particular regions where they grow on a 20-sq m China map. The tea map will make its debut at the 9th China Gardening and Tea Culture Festival on April 27.
Source;- news.xinhuanet.com
Unknown animal science puzzled scientists On the coast of Guinea in West Africa at great sandbank found an unknown animal. Dead monster on to the shore during the storm. Judging from the photos, not excluded the possibility of opening a new kind of animal, the hitherto unknown science.
A mysterious beast can be seen clearly the head, legs, teeth and tail. Not only enough scales wrote CNN. Now scientists have a long work on the study.
Source:- Hubpages
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Reed Flute Cave is the largest and the most impressive natural landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China. The reed flute cave is over 180 million years old. It was discovered in the 1940s by a group of refugees. The reed flute cave has received many VIPs.
This cave, marked on the most travel itineraries, got its name from the reeds growing in this region, with which people make pipes and flutes.
The cave is divided into different parts. It served as a war refuge for many people during World War II.
Inside the Reed Flute Cave is a spectacular world of different stalactites and rock formations shimmering with amazing colors of artificial lighting. It all creates an impressive effect!
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