Archaeologists uncovered an illegal 1920s-era liquor still in South Carolina that may have been linked to Al Capone’s criminal empire. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hell-hole-swamp-al-capone-liquor-still.html
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Ancient ‘swamp king’ monster croc once terrorized Australia
The ‘swamp king’ was over 16 feet long and much broader than modern-day crocodiles. Source: https://www.livescience.com/prehistoric-monster-crocodile-discovered.html
Evidence of Ancient Rainforests Found In Antarctica
mi writes: Researchers have discovered evidence that Antarctica supported a swampy rainforest as “recently” as 90 million years ago, according to a new study. “Even during months of darkness, swampy temperate rainforests were able to grow close to the South Pole, revealing an even warmer climate than we expected,” said Tina van de Flierdt, study co-author and professor in the Imperial…
This adorable animal spends its entire adult life pregnant
Swamp wallaby females can spend all of their adult lives in a permanent state of pregnancy, conceiving a new embryo while still carrying a near-term fetus. Source: https://www.livescience.com/swamp-wallaby-always-pregnant.html
Reddit’s Profane, Greedy Traders Are Shaking Up the Stock Market
Bloomberg’s Luka Kawa reports on the tips and tricks members of the r/wallstreetbets subreddit are using to push prices on the stock market, at least for the short term. Here’s an excerpt from the report: The do-it-yourself traders of r/WSB are waging a kind of guerrilla warfare in the markets, trying to exploit what they see as weaknesses in the system…
Famed Bigfoot bog saved by conservationists
A rare Appalachian Mountain swamp in North Carolina has seen more than it’s fair share of Bigfoot sightings. When it comes to potential Bigfoot habita… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/333763/famed-bigfoot-bog-saved-by-conservationists…
Nutria: The Invasive Rodents of Unusual Size
Nutria, also known as coypu or swamp rats, are large rodents that wreak havoc on their non-native ecosystems. Source: https://www.livescience.com/nutria.html
Smelly, poisonous molecule may be a sure-fire sign of extraterrestrial life
Phosphine is among the stinkiest, most toxic gases on Earth, found in some of the foulest of places, including penguin dung heaps, the depths of swamps and bogs, and even in the bowels of some badgers and fish. This putrid “swamp gas” is also highly flammable and reactive with particles in our atmosphere. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-smelly-poisonous-molecule-sure-fire-extraterrestrial.html…
The Planet Needs a New Internet
An anonymous reader shares a report: When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we’ll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch diverting videos on YouTube to fill the icy hole in our hearts. We’ll do all this until the websites go dark and the networks go down because eventually, climate change…
A New Species of Leech Is Discovered Near Washington, D.C.
schwit1 shares a report from Smithsonian: In the summer of 2015, when Smithsonian research zoologist Anna Phillips and other scientists were standing in slow-moving swamp water, letting leeches latch onto their bare legs or gathering them up in nets from muddy pond bottoms, they didn’t realize that some of the bloodsuckers they’d collected belonged to an entirely new species. But in…