“This is currently the longest video on youtube. I challenge anyone to try and make a longer video.” — MoldytoasterMedia

“It’s 1928 and James Edgar ‘Two-Gun’ Davis is going to prove he’s the best marksman in town. How? By shooting a cigarette out of another man’s mouth.”

“Bear Gryll’s replacement. Please.” — ultrakalifragilistic

“He measured 25ft, weighed more than a ton and lived almost 100 million years ago. A palaeontologist has identified the oldest prehistoric crocodile of its kind in the world after the fossil of a Terminonaris was found at Lake Lewisville near Dallas, Texas. The realization by Thomas L. Adams has also changed what we know about the species originally thought to have originated in Europe, because it now appears it was a native of Texas. Mr Adams, of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, identified the reptile from its long snout which is more than 2ft long and 7in wide, reported Physorg.com. It was discovered by Dallas amateur fossil enthusiast Brian Condon, who found the heavy pieces of the snout and a vertebrate in 2005 while fossil hunting, and donated them to the university.” w/ photos

“Another massive winter swell hit Sydney’s coast over the last week generating monster sized waves putting on an impressive display of power and beauty along the coastline. People spend hours and hours perched atop the cliffs at Bronte (pronounced Bron-tee) marvelling at the sheer power of the waves crashing to shore whilst observing surfers taking on the big swells. What do people think about as they look out onto the huge swells rolling in and crashing up against the shore? Always wondered… and how therapeutic it is for so many people. As it was a southerly swell generated by a huge low pressure system off Tasmania only a couple of Sydney’s city beaches are rideable for the surfers – Bronte, my favourite beach and local, being one of them. This is PURE BRONTE…” — Marcus O’Brien

“Guinness World Records has recognized a Michigan boy as the youngest professional drummer. Julian Pavone was certified as of March 21, 2010, when he was 5 years, 10 months and 3 days old, Guinness announced. The rules for London-based Guinness say a drummer must play on at least one commercial record and be paid for the work. The drummer also must have given at least 20 concerts of 45 minutes or longer within five years. Julian is 7 and lives in Macomb County’s Macomb Township, about 25 miles north-northeast of Detroit. His drummer-father, Bernie Pavone, said Julian’s percussion background dates back before birth. “I used to play music on my wife’s stomach all the time when she was pregnant with Julian,” Guinness quoted the father as saying.” w/ photo + video

“A dozen fossilized tree stumps from what many scientists say was the world’s oldest forest are now part of the collection at the New York State Museum in Albany. One of the 380 million-year-old stumps found at the Gilboa Dam reconstruction project site in Schoharie County was unveiled at the museum. It was among 35 stump fossils found in an old rock quarry by engineers with New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection. The Gilboa Dam is part of the city’s Catskill water supply system. The ancient stumps were first discovered in 1920 when the dam was constructed.” w/ photo + video

“In North America the butterfly begins this massive yearly migration in August. Monarch butterflies fuel up on nectar in the northern States and Canada – it is time to leave as the coming winter will be so cold it would inevitably kill them. Unlike their great-grandparents they have never flown more than a few hundred meters in their lives but they head out over vast northern lakes with no hesitation. This is the first leg of one of the world’s greatest migrations… When they get to their destination a lucky few humans will see countless butterflies hanging from every branch. They come here because although there will be a chill in the air it will not be lethal as it would be in the north. The conditions are perfect for hibernation or overwintering as it is also known.” w/ photos

“It did not eat flesh, but whatever got in its way would have been trampled to death, scientists agreed today after the first complete skeleton of a prehistoric monster was found in Australia. Known as a diprotodon and likened to a giant wombat, weighing three tons and stretching up to 14ft long, it roamed the Australian continent between 25,000 and two million years ago. What is known, from a fragment of bone from the remains of another diprotodon discovered in New South Wales, is that these creatures lived on the continent at the same time as the early Aborigines. A small hole was found in that fragment, suggesting that the animal was brought down by a spear. But that was just one bone and, until the latest discovery in north-west Queensland’s Gulf of Carpentaria region, a complete skeleton had not been found. ‘We hope we will now be able to reconstruct the bones, put them into their original positions, to give us a pretty good idea of what these creatures looked like,’ said Professor Michael Archer of the Australian Museum, who has traveled to a cattle station where the skeleton was found.” w/ photos

“That’s remarkable. I’ve seen quite a few of these, and you’ve successfully bridged the uncanny valley.” — ianabruce