Diamond encrusted rock discovered in Russian mine contains an estimated 30,000 diamonds!

Miners in Russia’s Udachnaya diamond mine received a nice little Christmas surprise when they pulled a highly unusual and very rare diamond encrusted rock from the ground a few weeks back. The rock is about the size of a ping-pong ball and contains an estimated (hold on to your seat!) – 30,000 diamonds! Unfortunately, the diamonds’ small size makes them only useful for mouse jewelry so the miners graciously donated the rock to science.

Diamond encrusted rock discovered in Russian mine contains an estimated 30,000 diamonds!

Meet Alviniconcha strummeri - the spike-haired snail named after a famous punk rocker

The Alviniconcha strummeri sea snail is covered in awesome spikes giving it the telltale appearance (you may need to squint your eyes a bit) of a classic spike-haired punk rocker. In fact, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute named it Alviniconcha strummeri after the famous Clash frontman, punk rocker Joe Strummer.

Meet Alviniconcha strummeri - the spike-haired snail named after a famous punk rocker

Check out the remarkable photos of hikers walking on crystal-clear lake ice

38-year-old Slovak hiker Tomas Nanuk made a short video of him and his friends walking across the crystal clear ice of an incredible frozen lake while hiking up Slovakia’s High Tatras mountain range. Showing hikers who look like they’re walking on thin air, the video, titled “Walking on beautiful clean ice in Slovakian Mountains,” was posted on YouTube last week. Reeko’s included a few screen shots from the video in the pictorial below.

Check out the remarkable photos of hikers walking on crystal-clear lake ice

Bones, balls, people, and more - what's with all the anomalous objects spotted on the surface of Mars?

As quickly as NASA publishes unbelievably detailed photographs of the Martian surface, people back home find odd and unusual objects within those photos. Despite NASA’s proven manipulation of the Mars photographs, eagle-eyed researchers continue finding unusual anomalies in the photographs of the Martian surface and ask “Have you *ever* in your life seen a natural rock formation on Earth that looks like that?”

Bones, balls, people, and more - what's with all the anomalous objects spotted on the surface of Mars?

Woman with craving for toilet paper maintains a diet of one toilet paper roll per day

The condition is called pica, and like a pregnant woman who hungers for unusual food combinations, 25-year-old Jade Sylvester’s cravings cause her to consume toilet paper at a rate of about one roll per day.

Woman with craving for toilet paper maintains a diet of one toilet paper roll per day

Greatest meteor shower of the year occurs this weekend - meet the Geminids meteors

Forget the often-disappointing Perseids meteor shower – Geminids is not only better, it’s predicted to be especially cool this weekend. The Geminids shower has been strengthening in recent years and already surpasses every meteor shower of the year. This year, we’re holding out hope that the show is even better than last year’s brilliant display.

Greatest meteor shower of the year occurs this weekend - meet the Geminids meteors

NASA webcam captures mysterious beam of red light shooting towards Earth

NASA video cams captured an intriguing, and bizarre, occurrence on December 5, 2014 – a mysterious beam of red light shooting from an unknown red sphere down to Earth (see screenshot above). The red light beam occurred around 9:20 AM GMT and was captured by a live webcam that’s placed on the outside of the International Space Station. And this isn’t the first time the strange beam of light was spotted in space…

NASA webcam captures mysterious beam of red light shooting towards Earth

Bizarre cloud formation in Australia prompts citizens to wonder: Has the end drawn near?

It’s a rare weather phenomena called a “fallstreak hole” that occurs when the water temperature inside a cloud drops to freezing but the water vapor itself cannot freeze because there are not enough “ice nucleation particles” – and man, does it look freaky. Last month citizens of Wonthaggi, Australia were treated to the spectacular sight of a fallstreak hole (also called a fallstreak cloud or punch hole cloud) which had many worried about what was occurring in the skies above them.

Bizarre cloud formation in Australia prompts citizens to wonder: Has the end drawn near?

Internet's most disturbing photograph begs question: Who was Jeff the Killer?

Known as Jeff the Killer, he became one of the Internet’s most disturbing legends and favorite bogeyman. His picture shows a pale, nose-less person with soulless eyes and an odd, almost Joker-like grin on his face. The creepy picture spawned several horror fiction stories, YouTube videos, and even a Jeff the Killer video game. But what is the true origin of the eerie 2008 photograph that appeared suddenly on the Internet with little or no explanation striking fear and wonderment in all who viewed it?

Internet's most disturbing photograph begs question: Who was Jeff the Killer?

Bizarre worldwide weather continues - freaky storm in Sydney looks like an alien invasion

If you thought the wall of snow that blanketed Buffalo a few weeks back was eerie, take a look at the storm that hit Sydney, Australia over the weekend. Looking like some sort of freaky alien invasion, Mother Nature shows us once again that she can be just as terrifying as any scary ghost story.

Bizarre worldwide weather continues - freaky storm in Sydney looks like an alien invasion

NASA spots odd circular structure in middle of Mars lava flows

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory published a perplexing photo yesterday along with the question, “What is this enigmatic landform?” The photo shows a large, 1.2 mile wide, circular structure (the lab rats think it’s a a giant mutant Martian amoeba) surrounded by a sea of smooth-looking lava flows. NASA scientists believe the mound may be lava that has pushed up beneath the lava flow.

NASA spots odd circular structure in middle of Mars lava flows

The Skeleton Flower magically transforms into glassy, crystal-clear blossoms when it rains

The Diphylleia grayi or Skeleton Flower’s large, fizzy green, umbrella-shaped leaves are topped with small clusters of beautiful pearly white flowers that bloom from mid-spring to early summer. Oddly, as the petals of the flowers are soaked with water, they lose their white pigmentation and turn into magnificent crystal-clear flowers. Once they dry out, the coloring slowly returns and the flowers turn powdery white again.

The Skeleton Flower magically transforms into glassy, crystal-clear blossoms when it rains

Series of mysterious loud booms and explosions reported throughout UK, Belgium, France, Denmark, Australia, and eastern USA

Twitter lit up on November 29, 2014 as hundreds of witnesses reported hearing a sequence of mysterious and inexplicable loud bangs and booms that continued echoing throughout the United Kingdom for up to 30 minutes. Around the same time, reports of a similar strange noise began arriving from France, Denmark, Belgium, Australia and the eastern United States. Days after the event, there was still no official explanation for the mysterious noises.

Series of mysterious loud booms and explosions reported throughout UK, Belgium, France, Denmark, Australia, and eastern USA

See the intercontinental path of two birds on their epic migration from Europe to Africa

The guys over at 422 South have done it again providing us a wonderful “data-visualization” of the migratory path of the European honey buzzard. The European honey buzzard, also known as the pern, migrates every year from Europe to the warmer coasts of Africa where it spends the winter months soaking in the warm sun and sipping on drinks with little umbrellas in them. The visual above shows the remarkable flight paths of two such honey buzzards, a male and a female.

See the intercontinental path of two birds on their epic migration from Europe to Africa

The Aztec Death Whistle and the sound of a thousand ghouls they make

For decades, archaeologists thought the ancient Aztec Death Whistles were nothing more than disturbing skull-shaped toys for little Aztec kids. They studied how they looked, how they were made, and where they were found. But nobody thought to blow into one. When they did, they found that the creepy clay objects made a spine-chilling noise described by one archaeologist as “the scream of a thousand corpses”. Yeah, they’re that creepy.

The Aztec Death Whistle and the sound of a thousand ghouls they make

The horrifying sound of an Aztec Death Whistle will make your skin crawl

For decades, archaeologists thought the ancient Aztec Death Whistles were nothing more than disturbing skull-shaped toys for Aztec children. They studied how they looked, how they were made, and where they were found. But nobody thought to blow into one. When they did, they found that the disquietingly-decorated skull-shaped clay objects made a spine-chilling noise described by one archaeologist as “the scream of a thousand corpses”. Yeah, they’re that creepy.

The horrifying sound of an Aztec Death Whistle will make your skin crawl