A parrot, a bicycle tire and a cool trick
Look at this video about a cool parrot deflating a bicycle tire. I think its hilarious. Especially if you keep in mind how small the animal is.
Archive for February 19th, 2008
Monster frog discovered in Madagascar
Apparently researchers found a fossil of a “Frog from Hell’ in Madagascar. The beast must have weighed approximately 4 kilograms.
The BBC brings it like this:
A 70-million-year-old fossil of a giant frog has been unearthed in Madagascar by a team of UK and US scientists.
The creature would have been the size of a “squashed beach ball” and weighed about 4kg (9lb), the researchers said.
They added that the fossil, nicknamed Beelzebufo or “frog from hell”, was “strikingly different” from present-day frogs found on the island nation.
Details of the discovery are reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The team from University College London (UCL) and Stony Brook University, New York, said the frog would have had a body length of about 40cm (16 inches), and was among the largest of its kind to be found.
“This frog, a relative of today’s horned toads, would have been the size of a slightly squashed beach-ball, with short legs and a big mouth,” explained co-author Susan Evans, from UCL’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.
read more at BBC
Smoker assaulted with fire extinguisher
A viscous anti smoker in Germany became so angry when his girlfriend refused to put out her cigarette, he pulled out a fire extinguisher and covered her and her apartment with white foam.
“At first my colleagues thought a bomb had gone off”, the spokesman for the Bielefeld police department told the press.
The couple was having an argument about the woman’s smoking habits when the man went berserk. After she refused to put out the cigarette he started yelling “torture !”. After this he went on a rampage with the fire extinguisher.
The idiot managed to put out the cigarette, but he couldn’t care less about the damages to the apartment. The man and woman are no longer a couple.
No Olympic Games for Kosovo ?
The chances for newly independent country Kosovo to compete in the coming summer Olympic Games in China are very slim. At least according to the International Olympic Committee. For this to happen the United Nations needs to actually recognize Kosovo as a country first.
” We need to wait and see what the United Nations decides. Participation in Peking is very unlikely because there is little time make the necessary steps, ” says IOC spokeswoman Emannuelle Moreau.
At least five athletes from Kosovo are hoping for a ticket to the Games. They are all boxers.
There is a possibility though that before the IOC convenes the athletes might be allowed to compete as independent athletes under the Olympic flag. This has happened before when other athletes from former Yugoslavia and East Timor took this chance to perform at this very high level.
Do you think Kosovo should be allowed to send his athletes to the Games?
