Tree man, or man with wooden body!

Dede Koswara, better known as “tree man,” in his home village of Bandung, Java, Indonesia, where he is continuing treatment for his rare condition. Koswara spent much of his life covered in tree-like warts until he underwent surgery in 2008 to have over 4-pounds of them removed from his body.

Dede’s ordeal began when he was 15 and cut his knee in an accident. A small wart developed on his lower leg and spread uncontrollably. Eventually he had to give up work as a builder and fisherman, and scratch a living in a traveling freak show. His wife of ten years left him as it became impossible for him to support her and their two children. He had surgery, but tree on Dede body continue to grow in six months.

Oh my god. WTF?

I ve got no idea what the hell is going on here.

Giant Blue Whale collides with a Ship!

Floating belly up in the Pacific, this is the unbelievable sight of the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth – killed by a passing ship.The body of the giant blue whale was found by researchers from Oregon State University in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of California.They came across the carcass while out in their small research vessel, the Pacific Storm, operated by the university’s Marine Mammal Institute.

Researchers believe the whale may have been hit by a cargo ship in the busy shipping lanes coming out of the city of Los Angeles. Staff at the university have not yet been reached for comment.The picture first appeared on National Geographic’s website.Water is churned up around the body of the whale as the research vessel fights to get closer to it, while seagulls perch on its upturned belly.

The Pacific Storm is 84 feet, or just over 25 metres long – meaning this whale must be roughly 22 metres long.The image is so astonishing it almost looks unreal.The Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute is well-known for its research on blue whales, even participating in a documentary with National Geographic on the subject. Blue whales are the largest animal ever to have lived – even larger than the dinosaurs.They are a sub-species of  baleen whale, feeding mainly on krill, that can grow to up to 30 metres long, and weigh 100-150tonnes. Their mouths could hold up to 100 people, and their hearts are the size of a small car. They are long-lived, also, with an average lifespan of 110 years. The blue whale is also one of the largest animals in the sea, capable of making noises as loud as a jet engine – though at frequencies too low for a human being to hear.

The majestic creatures live in all oceans of the world, though they are predominantly found in the North Atlantic, the North Pacific, and just above Antarctica.
By the 1960s they were classified as being on the brink of extinction, and they are still on the endangered list – making the tragic loss of this one all the more poignant.

Can Humans Echolocate? Super human powers

Echolocation is how bats fly around in dark forests – they emit a sound, wait for the echo to return, and use that sound of the echo in each ear plus the return time to work out where an object is and how far away. Surprisingly (well, maybe not on this list!), humans are also capable of using echolocation. Use of echolocation is probably restricted to blind people because it takes a long time to master and heightened sensitivity to reflected sound.


To navigate via echolocation a person actively creates a noise (e.g. tapping a cane or clicking the tongue) and determines from the echoes where objects are located around them. People skilled at this can often tell where an object is, what size it is, and its density. Because humans cannot make or hear the higher pitched frequencies that bats and dolphins use they can only picture objects that are comparatively larger than those ‘seen’ by echolocating animals.

People with the ability to echolocate include James Holman, Daniel Kish, and Ben Underwood. Perhaps the most remarkable and well-documented of cases is the story of Ben Underwood, who lost both his eyes to retinal cancer at the age of three. He is shown in the video above (warning: the scene where he puts in his prosthetic eyeballs may be a bit disturbing for some).