In 2005, an Ethiopian girl was being brutally beaten by 7 men when a pride of lions chased them away. They even stayed with her until help arrived.

A mantis shrimp can swing its claws so fast that it boils the water around it and creates a tiny flash of light!

It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once to completely drain the average human of all of its blood!

It's even more difficult to know what's real and what's not.
The internet has become so full of fake images, that it’s difficult to believe what is real and what is not. Some observers with keen eyes have discovered several images that are in fact not Photo-shopped.
Get ready to have your mind blown.

Magic Faucets

Your eyes might look at these floating faucets and think that someone photos-hoped the pipes away.
But if you look closer it's just a clever illusion. How do they stay flowing and where does all the water come from? don't scratch your head too hard. because this magical illusion has a logical explanation.
This spectacular effect is achieved by a transparent tube in the middle of the water column that holds the tap in place and, at the same time, keeps feeding it with water pumped from below. The water goes up through the tube and exits at the top. The water column, which is usually turbulent, effectively hides the tube from view.

Hellboy Arm Wrestler

At first glance image of this young man looks like a very clear case of bad photoshopping. Nope, this young man is not trying to impersonate the famous character "Hellboy". His arm is in fact very real. His name is Matthias Schlitte and he was born with a rare genetic defect that makes his right forearm bone 33 percent larger than his left. At 16 years old attended a local arm wrestling tournament at the suggestion of his mom and hasn't stopped since.
He is now 27 years old and is a professional international arm wrestler and also a commercial star.

Venus The Cat

One of the most famous kitties on the internet is - Venus the Two-Faced Cat. One-half is solid black with a green eye the other half has typical orange tabby stripes and a blue eye. Many reports about Venus refer to the cat as a "chimera." In mythology, a chimera is a mishmash monster made up of parts of different animals.  She has her own Facebook page and a YouTube video that's been viewed over a million times.
Her famous tagline is " 0% Photoshopped 100% Born This Way".

Beach Runway

If you think this is a screenshot from next blockbuster movie, you are wrong. This is no joke. And if you don't believe us just take a trip to Caribbean island and visit the Maho Beach. It is located directly next to the Princess Juliana Airport. When aircraft come into land at Princess Juliana Airport, they pass just overhead of beach-goers, making for a thrilling experience as well as an excellent photo opportunity.

Goat Tree

Don't let this picture get your goat. It isn't fake. It isn't photo-shopped. There are actually goats up in this tree. And it's a pretty common occurrence in the semi-deserts of southwest Morocco. The Argania is a rare and protected species of tree. The tree produces an incredibly delicious fruit that attracts tons of goats and other hungry animals.

Pacu The Fish

These fish grab the attention of many people when it began turning out in rivers and lakes across the U.S. It might be hard to believe that this fish has human looking teeth. The pacu is native of Amazon River in South America. Their powerful jaws and teeth are great for cracking nuts.

The Crooked House

The image of this house looks like someone was having a lot of fun messing with the photo. But this bubbly and wonderfully warped house is a real building. It was built in 2004 and is located in Poland. It was built by a design team known as the Szotynscy and Zaleski. The designers were inspired by fairy tale book illustrator Jan Szancer. For those who have seen the building in person, it is even harder to believe that it exists.

Floating Whale

This floating creature would be the last thing on your mind when you and your friends go to the beach. Sure you expect sea weed to attack you or someone to dive under the water and grab your foot pretending to be a sea monster. But you definitely don't expect the largest mammal in the ocean to surf to the shore with you. Be careful that you might get chunks of whale blubber on you because whales are known to explode due to a large amount of gas built up.

Band Of Ants

A colony of ants banded together to unscrew a soda cap and place a straw inside and if so how could anyone happen to be in the right place at right time to snap this pic? This is actually the mastermind of Andrey Pavlov, a former set designer for the entertainment industry. He designed this incredible set piece along with many other. So he could interact with the ants and snap these award winning shots.

Motorcycle Surfing

This image is a bad attempt at a clearly photo-shopped image. Surfing with a dirt bike seems as impossible as this image. Don't you think? Believe it or not, this extreme image is no optical illusion or computer trick. It is a product of professional motorbike rider Robbin Madison. He is known for jumping across an opened tower bridge in London and jumping the Arc de Triomphe in Las Vegas.

• Giant carcass washes ashore at Hulung Beach in Indonesia
• The unusual discovery, especially as the creature started to turn the waters around it red.
• Although initial reports speculated that it could be a giant squid or a sperm whale, Marcus Chua, a museum officer at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, told Mashable that the carcass appears to be that of a baleen whale.

The answer is... YES! It is crazy to believe, right?! Apparently, humans share so much DNA similarity with gorillas, that they can actually catch several different diseases and illnesses from us. 

There are no rats in Alberta, Canada.

• Bees know when it's going to rain, so they put in extra work the day before.
• This is according to Xu-Jiang He and colleagues at Jiangxi Agricultural University in Nanchang, China, who attached tiny radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to 300 worker honeybees from each of three hives.
• The bees spent more time out of the hive foraging and stopped work later in the afternoon when the following day proved to be rainy rather than sunny.

• A joint Mongolian - Japanese expedition has recently discovered a giant footprint of titanosaur near Gobi desert, South Africa.
• This giant footprint is 106 centimetres (42 inches) long and 77 centimetres wide.
• The fossilised footprint was found last month underneath a geological layer formed between 70 million and 90 million years ago.
• The footprint is believed to have belonged to titanosaur, a long-necked dinosaur, and could have been more than 30 meters long and 20 meters tall, according researchers.
• The footprint cast is natural and it might have formed after the gigantic creature stomped once on the muddy ground and sand flowed into the dents.
• "This is a very rare discovery as it's a well-preserved fossil footprint that is more than a meter long with imprints of its claws," said a statement issued by Okayama University of Science.
• The Japanese university has been involved in the study with the Mongolian Academy of Science.

(Source - Zee news)

• Stand near an elephant herd, and you may feel a strange vibration in your chest.
• That’s not your heart beating in terror because you’re, well, standing next to an elephant herd. Or at least that’s not all it is.
• It’s also a sign that the elephants are talking to one another.
• Elephants are famous for their trumpeting, of course, but they also produce rumbles pitched so low that humans can’t hear them, only feel them as a sort of physical buzzing
• The way elephants make the low-frequency rumbles they use to communicate over long distances has been revealed by scientists in Austria. 
• These vocalisations are produced by passing air over the vocal folds, making them vibrate. 
• Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.

• Since they spend most of their time in trees, sloths muscles and limbs have been engineered to climb trunks to find food and escape predators.
• They spend so much time in the trees that the tree holds their very life in the balance, sometimes even after they’ve died, according to National Geographic.
• The grip of a sloth is so strong that sometimes when they die, they are found still clinging to the very branch they were lounging from when they were alive.

• In the summer of 1995, Kees Moeliker, a dutch researcher, was sitting behind his desk in the glass building of the Rotterdam Natural museum.
• Suddenly he was alerted by an unusual loud bang coming from the direction of the window.
• Outside the building, a male mallard (the common wild duck) was found dead, laying on its belly in the sand. A case of homosexual necrophilia.

• Next to the dead duck, another male mallard was present that forcibly picked the dead duck’s head for a few minutes after which it mounted the corpse and began forcefully copulating with it.

• The male mallard raped the corpse ( Dead duck ) almost continuously for 75 minutes.
• This bizarre observation is unique because homosexual necrophilic behaviour has never been described before.
• Interestingly, homosexuality is not very rare in ducks, with up to one in 10 duck couples being homosexual.
• Also occasionally necrophilia can be seen, but only with males trying to mount dead females. 

A Vulture with Style

• Bearded vultures are the only birds known to wear cosmetics.
• They deliberately dye their feathers with red soil.
• The bearded vulture is one of the largest birds of prey, yet it eats mostly bone marrow. It is also the only bird known to decorate itself.
• Adult bearded vultures sport a coat of snow-white feathers on their necks, shoulders and chests.
• On this white feathery canvas, the vultures paint a shade of rusty red by bathing in soils or water rich in red iron oxide deposits.
• For years, scientists questioned the origins of the vultures’ red paint.
• Field studies, including an intensive three-year radio-tracking study, failed to uncover the origins of the red colouration.
• Researchers suggested that the red stains might have been caused by the birds randomly resting near iron deposits.
• Yet the colouring seemed intentional, as captive birds that were given access to damp red soil quickly pounced on it, dusting their bellies and necks red like their wild kin.
• The birds would use the beak and talons to spread the red mud from their chest to their shoulders and upper back.
• Bearded vultures clearly like to put on a shade of red.
• Finally, in 1995 and then 1998, wild bearded vultures were seen bathing in pools thick with iron deposits in the French and Spanish Pyrenees. 
• Vultures sit atop the food chain so there's no need to hide from predators, and since they eat bones, there's no creeping up on prey either.
• The iron oxides also do not seem to improve feather durability, as coloured and white feathers wear down just the same.
• So scientists settled on two other possible functions and they just cannot agree which is correct: are the iron oxides cosmetics or prophylactics?
• In 1999, Juan Jose Negro, ecologist at the Doñana Biological Station in Spain, reasoned that bearded vultures might use iron oxides to advertise their strength to other vultures.
• Females, often larger than males, also sport more intense iron oxide colours and dominate matings; among males, paler suitors reportedly mate less frequently.
• Three years after Negro’s publication, Raphael Arlettaz, ecologist at University of Bern in Switzerland, offered an alternative hypothesis to explain the vultures' red colouration: the iron oxides are not mere cosmetics, but prophylactics instead. Chlorine dioxide and ozone kills bacteria, prompting Arlettaz to suggest that iron oxides may also do the same.
• Bearded vultures probably come into contact with lots of bacteria in their 'professional' lives as scavengers, and these bacteria threaten the vultures’ nestlings and eggs.
• So Arlettaz suggested the iron oxides could be a weapon against the bacterial onslaught the vulture parents bring home.
• Negro responded to this ‘prophylactic hypothesis' with several counter-arguments. He noted the lack of evidence that iron oxides kill bacteria 
• The debate on the matter seems to have died down since, and both Negro and Arlettaz have moved on to other projects. Until it resurfaces, the exact reasons for the vultures' passion for decoration remain a mystery.

• Lucy, the most famous fossil, died 3.2 million years ago after falling from a tree.
• Lucy, the iconic human cousin whose skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.
• Lucy, an example of the oldest known hominid Australopithecus afarensis, died at roughly 15 years old in present-day Ethiopia. A small creature, about 3 feet 6 inches tall and only 60 pounds, she probably spent nights in a tree to avoid bigger, potentially dangerous predators
• Using a high-resolution, high energy CT scan of her fossils taken while Lucy was on loan temporarily from Ethiopia to the U.S. for a travelling exhibition in 2007 and 2008, scientists discovered that her upper arm and shoulders were broken. They determined that she probably fell from a height of more than 40 feet, hitting the ground at over 35 mph.
• Based on the pattern of breaks, scientists believe that she landed feet first before bracing herself with her arms as she fell forward, and “death followed swiftly,” the study concluded.

When wolves howl together, they harmonise rather than sing on one note to give the illusion of greater numbers.

• Colombian drug-lord Pablo Escobar kept four Hippos in his estate before his death in 1993.
• Deemed too much hassle to move by authorities, his Hippos were left there and have since bred and escaped becoming an invasive species of Colombia.

• The number of times some crickets chirp each second can be used to estimate temperature.
• Crickets, like all living things, have many chemical reactions going on inside their bodies, such as reactions that allow muscles to contract to produce chirping.
• Crickets, like all insects, are cold-blooded and take on the temperature of their surroundings.
• This affects how quickly these chemical muscle reactions can occur.
• Specifically, a formula called the Arrhenius equation describes the activation, or threshold, energy required to make these reactions occur.
• As the temperature rises, it becomes easier to reach a certain activation energy, thereby allowing chemical reactions, such as the ones that allow a cricket to chirp, to occur more rapidly.
• Conversely, as the temperature falls, the reaction rates slow, causing the chirping to diminish along with it.

• Some butterflies ears are on their wings.
• The fact that butterflies had ears remained a mystery to science until 1912, when the first such structures were ever identified.
• Since then, researchers have analysed them on all sides, and have discovered that the organs, far from being similar in all butterfly species, were in fact extremely diverse and different.
• The latest insect to reveal its ears was the blue morpho butterfly (Morpho peleides), a species of butterfly that carries its listening apparatus on its wings.
• Scientists believe that it uses them in order to recognize the threats from incoming or nearby birds, LiveScience reports.
• The tiny ears are perfectly capable of making out both high-pitch and low-pitch sounds, and it may be possible that the butterflies are actually able to identify various species of birds, if they know the noises that their wings make.
• The blue morpho was the last in a series of butterflies that was studied for ears.
• Not all species have them, but this one, which amazes people through its beautiful coloring, has its tympanal membrane located at the base of the wing.
• The structure resembles a yolk at the center of a fried egg, the leader of the new research, University of Bristol expert Kathleen Lucas, says.

Cats “headbutt” people because they make them feel safe, or they trust them.

In 1995, strange 7-foot circular patterns were discovered on the ocean’s floor. Deemed the ‘crop circles of the sea’, these mysterious patterns went unanswered for until early 2011 when it was discovered that 5-inch long male puffer-fish were the culprits. After studying these animals, scientists have discovered that the meticulous creation and upkeep of these patterns by the puffer-fish serve as an attraction for the opposite sex as well as a nest for the female puffer-fish’s eggs.