Snooping Around

In the world there are plenty of animal species. So many to embarrass the human race, at least when it comes to quantity and variety. But what about some of the most mysterious species around. Are you sure to know what kind of strange and wonderful creatures live in the deepest oceans and in the highest skies? This new section of Snooping Around is here to take you to an extraordinary journey to discover some of the most unknown animals nature has ever created. Snoopers, welcome to “Nature Most Wanted”. Let’s start with the bluest waters. Hidden underneath the world there is a little sea slug, floating upside down on the surface tension of the water. Carried along by winds and ocean currents. It’s the Glaucus Atlanticus, also known as Blue Dragon. This tiny creature is known by lots of names like sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus and blue ocean slug . The scientific name, Glaucus Atlanticus,  has been given after the Greek god of the sea, Glaucus. This sea god was forced

Nature can be very mysterious and The Fascinating Story of the Exploding Toads and The Clever Crows is the perfect example. Maybe, if this is the first time you've ever heard of this, you’d probably think I’m going to talk about a fairy tale. Interesting, but simply a funny story. And maybe with some kind of moral in the end. Believe me, this actually happened. When I first heard of it, I was extremely surprised. Now let’s go back in the spring of 2005, shall we? In Hamburg (Germany) a documented film about the phenomenon reported this: About 1.000 dead toads were discovered lying around the edges. Their bodies appeared to have exploded. Eye-witnesses said they swelled up to about three-and-a-half times their normal size and then simply burst. And they burst with such an explosive force that their entrails were blown over several square meters. As you just read, toads randomly began exploding. Spewing guts, blood and skin for nearly a yard in every direction. For s