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A man-eating plant is a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal. The notion of man-eating plants came about in the late 19th century, as the existence of real-life carnivorous and moving plants, described by Charles Darwin in Insectivorous Plants (1875), and The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), largely came as a shock to the general ...
Frederick Strange (c. 1826 – 15 October 1854) was a collector of plant and animal specimens during the early colonisation of Australia. He collected bird specimens for John Gould . He was killed in a conflict between his group and natives on South Percy Island.
The horse was also killed and another worker was seriously injured. [496] [497] Anthony Hensley 14 April 2012: The 37-year-old was killed by a swan while kayaking across a pond at a residential complex in Des Plaines, Illinois. After getting too close to the bird's nest, the swan attacked him, threw him out of the kayak and prevented him from ...
Strange, extinct plant once thought to be related to modern ginseng is now considered the lone representative of an unknown family (Florida Museum of Natural History/Jeff Gage)
The book is based on an article that Orlean wrote for The New Yorker, published in the magazine's January 23, 1995 issue. [2] Plant dealer John Edward Laroche (born February 19, 1962, in Florida) was determined to find and clone the rare ghost orchid for profit.
In 1982, a man was killed after damaging a saguaro. David Grundman was shooting and poking at a saguaro cactus in an effort to make it fall. An arm of the cactus, weighing 230 kg (500 lb), fell onto him, crushing him and his car. The trunk of the cactus then also fell on him. [55] [59] The Austin Lounge Lizards wrote the song "Saguaro" about ...
A terrifying new flu-like disease has killed nearly 150 people — mostly teens — and health officials have no idea what it is. Jared Downing. December 4, 2024 at 12:58 PM. A strange, new ...
[13] [14] [16] Many strange occurrences were reported after the tornado, including a barn being blown away with the horses inside being uninjured, a pig pen disappearing but leaving the pigs, and garages being carried away while the cars inside were left undamaged. Additionally, 10 people within a house were apparently left standing on the ...