Cane toads damage native wildlife in Australia. This might be the largest one on record. Cane toads reproduce like mad and take a toll on native animals. Rangers at Conway National Park in Queensland, Australia, discovered an absolute monster of a cane toad that was so big it earned the name “Toadzilla.” The toad’s discovery was fortuitous. Rangers stopped their vehicle due to a snake crossing the track, and ranger Kylee Gray got out and spotted the toad. “I reached down and grabbed the cane toad and couldn’t believe how big and heavy it was,” Gray said in a Queensland Department of…
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever once featured a neat scene for Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams that also served as a creative parallel to Tony Stark’s own journey in his MCU debut. One of the standout elements of Marvel’s most recent adventure to Wakanda was the introduction of a brilliant MIT student who happened to have created her own suit of armor alongside a Vibranium detector that made her a target of foreign nations, such as Namor’s Talokan. While Riri got plenty of screen time, at one point, a longer version of the movie existed that gave her even more to do—namely, spending more time with Shuri locked away at Talokan. Up until this…
The 2014 film Guardians of the Galaxy introduced the Guardians to Marvel fans. Along with the Guardians, the science-fiction film also introduced Karen Gillan as Nebula. The first film featured the conflict between her and her sister, Gamora. Their father, Thanos wanted her to be as skilled as Gamora and this led the two sisters to clash throughout the film. Karen Gillan Although their equation did not match in the film, Gillan did not feel the same way about her co-star in real life. While promoting the 2014 film, the Jumanji star shared that she enjoyed filming her fight scenes with Zoe Saldana. Karen…
Rumors had been amuck when it came to Rita Ora, Taika Waititi, and Tessa Thompson. Fans were convinced that they were a throuple after Ora and Waititi got married. While both the director and Thompson have commented often on how the rumors are anything but true. However, the singer has never spoken a word about the incident. Rita Ora That was until now. Rita Ora has finally broken her silence regarding the threesome that become viral on social media. She, much like the other two, has denied it to be true and that she and Taika Waititi are a married…
After 15 years on the big screen, Marvel Studios just earned its first nomination for an Academy Award in an acting category. The MCU ended its 2022 slate with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, one of the most highly-touted movies of Phase 4 and a film for which Marvel has high hopes on the awards circuit. Considering that the original Black Panther performed better than any MCU movie ever at the Oscars, earning six nominations and three wins, director Ryan Coogler and his team certainly have the opportunity to repeat that success with the sequel. Even though the MCU has nearly two dozen Oscar nominations under its belt, all have…
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty might be years ahead, but head scribe Jeff Loveness is already teasing the involvement of new MCU heroes introduced in Phase 4. Avengers 5 is expected to have a massive cast, considering that Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will be up against Kang the Conqueror. Still, it is unknown which specific characters will help in the fight. A past rumor revealed that Phase 4 heroes like Sam Wilson’s Captain America and Shuri’s Black Panther would appear, while Shang-Chi star Simu Liu seemingly confirmed his involvement when he expressed excitement about working with Avengers 5 director Destin Daniel Cretton again. Now, the movie’s writer shared what to expect about these…
Alden Ehrenreich, best known for his role as a young Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story, is set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe with an unknown supporting role in the upcoming Disney+ series Ironheart. In a recent interview, Ehrenreich expressed his excitement about working on a major franchise again. Alden Ehrenreich as Han SoloAlden Ehrenreich’s Excitement for Ironheart: A Big and Personal Story Although Alden Ehrenreich‘s character in Ironheart remains a mystery for the time being, Alden Ehrenreich is thrilled to be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the upcoming Disney+ series. In an interview, he spoke about the scale of the series, describing it as “big,…
American astrophysicist Avi Loeb got the public eye by publishing an article in Scientific American with the bold hypothesis: What if our universe was created in a laboratory? Avi Loeb is definitely an extraordinary person. The head of the Institute of Theory and Computing of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a member of the US Presidential Council on Science and Technology has more than once amazed both the scientific community and a wide circle of astronomy lovers with his extraordinary approach to the exploration of space and the place of man in it. This time the astrophysicist proposed to consider…
The history of the Soviet department of “men in black” is still hidden from ordinary people. Those who served there, even after many years, are reluctant to talk about their work in the “alien” unit of the GRU, reports life.ru. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, abbreviated G.R.U., formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate, and still commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU, is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. GRU controls the military intelligence service and maintains its own…
Ufologists and representatives of traditional sciences continue to argue over whether rumours of the implantation of mysterious mini-transmitters in human bodies have any real basis. UFO researchers talk of an evil alien conspiracy. So much evidence for such implants has accumulated that it is becoming more and more difficult for serious researchers to brush them aside. Pravdareport.com sums up fantastical explanations. As confirmed by ufologists, for some time now, tiny objects capable of implanting themselves in various parts of the body have been discovered in people: in mucous membranes, under the skin of one’s scalp, in the bones of one’s…
London: An Italian art historian claims to have solved the mystery of the exact location of the landscape which provides the background to Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa. Carla Glori believes that a hidden clue in the famous artwork identifies the exact location of the landscape. According to her, a three-arched bridge which appears over the left shoulder of the woman with the enigmatic smile is a reference to Bobbio, a village which lies in rugged hill country south of Piacenza, in northern Italy. Her theory is based on the recent discovery by another art historian, Silvano Vinceti, of…
The Viking age was a period of rapid development – in many ways. The river systems and coastlines became explored, trade and markets were established, cities were formed and the feudal system was established. © Shutterstock However, most people are surprised to find out that Vikings were also master craftsmen who invented many things we use today. Did they make telescopes as well? Probably not but they might create their very own version of the telescope in the form of “Viking lenses” which are currently being debated as to whether they qualify as a main component of telescope or not. So what exactly…