The Bermuda Triangle is mystery enough, but a 50-kilometer patch of land in Mexico is becoming an increasingly common area of bizarre incidents.

According to a report from Atlas Obscura, the Zone of Silence is found in the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve, which is a mostly uninhabited expanse. Here, amidst the desolate terrain, radio signal ceases and meteorites come crashing down.

It's this strange radio silence that inspired the name of this area. In 1966, a national oil company called Pemex ordered an expedition to explore this place. When the group began experiencing problems with his radio, leader Augusto Harry de la Peña dubbed it the Zone of Silence.

The eerie phenomenon of dying radios has been attributed to be the effect of subterranean magnetite and debris from meteorites. After all, there have been significant meteorites landing in this particular area. The 20th century saw a few of this crashes, including two that even crashed in the same ranch in a span of less than 20 years. (And they say lightning don't strike the same place twice.)

Outside of human influences, why do rare plant species persist instead of dwindling away to extinction? It's a question that has plagued ecologists for centuries. Now, for the first time, scientists at Penn State and Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina, demonstrate that fruit-eating birds play an important role in maintaining rare plant species.

"We show that fruit-eating birds, just by their food-gathering behavior, help to structure the diversity of forests," said Tomás Carlo, associate professor of biology, Penn State. "This is important because higher plant diversity is associated with increased provision of ecosystem services, such as nutrient cycling and the production of food and water."

According to Carlo, when birds eat fruits, they help plants to reproduce by spreading their seeds around.

"A couple years ago, I found some rare seeds in one of my seed traps in Puerto Rico, and I said to myself, 'Why are these birds eating this?" Carlo said. "This is improbable. These birds are surrounded by the fruits of common species and yet a sizable proportion of their diet includes fruits of rare species.'"

Within the last 2 days, 300 seals, 2500 birds and thousands of fish died around the world.

And the worst is that nobody knows why! Well this is what they say!

More than 300 dead seals discovered dead along the Caspian Sea in Dagestan. Cause unknown.

More than 300 dead seals have been found dead along the coast of the Caspian Sea in Dagestan, but the cause of their death remains a mystery. The dead seals were found over a 27 km long stretch on the coast. Officials believe that poaching isn't the cause. A disease? military exercises? Did a powerful storm disseminated the seal population? The last time such a massive seal die-off happened was 2011. The cause is still unexplained.

Maximum deaths from dog bites were reported in 2013, when 8 people died.

In the last five years, residents in Mumbai have suffered instances of at least 457,579 dog bites, with the toll this year touching 58,631 cases until August end. Even as the figures have gone down each year in government dispensaries and hospitals, reportedly cases of dog bites have not fallen, instead patients are moving towards the private sector, where no collective records are available, for anti-rabies injections.

Data accessed by The Indian Express from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) shows that 18 people have died since 2013 from dog bites. Of those, 15 were bitten by a dog outside Mumbai and three within the city limits. In 2013, eight people succumbed to rabies, in 2014 three, in 2015 five and in 2016 two people have died as of August.

This year, Sunita Anantrao Jagtap, 54, was attacked by a dog in Panvel. She succumbed to the rabies infection on August 18 after getting admitted to KEM Hospital in Mumbai. Five days before her death, Madhukar Gade, 55, succumbed to a dog bite. Gade, a resident of Badlapur, was rushed to KEM hospital after there was a delay in getting her access to anti-rabies vaccine. Even as Kerala battles massive cases of dog bites (over 53,000 recorded this year), with the problem reaching such proportions that gold coins and cash rewards have been offered to those who can cull the stray population, Mumbai has an equally worrying situation.

A teenager whose out of control dog savaged a woman shopper during a horror mauling has been put behind bars.

Josh Miller, 19, lost control of his pet pitbull terrier Nala and the crazed beast sank its teeth into Elaine McAllister.

Mrs McAllister had been out shopping when the ferocious dog pounced in front of horrified by-standers.

Shocking CCTV footage of the attack in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, shows Mrs McAllister being dragged to the ground while Miller desperately attempts to get the animal back under control.

Customers from a nearby shop and members of the public are seen running to try and stop the attack after the dog locked its jaws onto Mrs McAllister's leg.

Disturbing footage shows a van driver slam on his brakes and run over armed with a weapon in a desperate bid to stop the attack.

Instances of leopards entering human habitats in the state are witnessing a rise with 57 such cases being reported since January this year.

Wildlife experts have attributed these break-ins behind decline in prey base in the jungles and healthy rise in the number of big cats. Gradual encroachment in forest areas is also another cause behind the rise in numbers of leopard-human conflicts in state, said the experts.

Vipul Maurya, a wildlife scholar who carried out a research on leopard-human conflict alongside Alaknanda river said, "The prey base has declined in forests so the leopards are increasingly venturing near vicinity of villages with agricultural activities. Such areas provide food and water for the animal in sufficient quantities for it to thrive."

In a second attack by an Indian gaur in a week in Tamil Nadu, two children were injured while they were walking on Rifle Range Road in Kodaikanal on Sunday.

S. Divya (11) and T. Sivasankar (14) of Naidupuram in Kodaikanal town were rushed to the Kodaikanal Government Hospital.

Later, Divya was referred to Theni Government Medical College Hospital.

The gaur first attacked the girl. When Sivasankar tried to rescue her, the animal attacked him too, said the police. Local people chased the animal away from the area.

A week ago, a couple from Chennai on a honeymoon were attacked by a gaur in Sims Park in Coonoor in the Nilgiris district. Later, the woman succumbed to her injuries.

In Kodaikanal, attacks on humans by wild animals are becoming common.

At least 20 people of six villages were injured as fishing cats, entering localities in search of food, attacked human beings in the areas under Dinajpur Sadar upazila.

"The people of Sahapara village noticed four fishing cats in the area on Thursday. They sneaked in localities and took away many domestic birds and animals including hens, ducks and sheep," Gulzar Ali, a member of Awliapur union of Dinajpur Sadar.

"As villagers started guarding at night to save their domestic animals, the fishing cats started attacking the villagers in paddy fields in broad daylight," said Sabina Yasmin, another ward member.

Villagers have stopped going to paddy fields and started guarding their areas with sticks, said Gulzar Ali.

The 20 victims, including seriously injured Nur Jahan, Rubina Khatun, Jesmin Akter, Sonia Akter, Sohrab Ali, Hasim Uddin and Md Babu, took treatment at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital and Dinajpur General Hospital.

They are from Karimullahpur, Sahapara, Mashimpur, Tarimpur, Chowliapur and Hariharpur villages.

In another such tragic incident, a man was killed in bear attack in a jungle near Benuadhar village under Thakurmunda block in Mayurbhanj district this morning.

The man was identified as Laxman Purti of Benuadhar village.

According a report, Laxman had to collect leaves for timber purposes to the nearby forest where a bear bit and mauled him severely. Though he was taken to a nearby hospital, he was declared brought dead there.

It may be noted that such a sorrowful incident had occurred in Bargarh district on Friday when a villager of Behera Gaon under Ambabhona block was killed in a bear attack.

The villager had gone into the nearby jungle for search for his cow when a bear attacked him, injuring him severely. Later he died in a hospital.

It may be reminded that a bear had killed three persons in Nabarangpur district in June this year.

When the "end of history", meaning the establishment of a permanent Western hegemony over the entire international system, was proclaimed in the early 1990s, it was not yet obvious how the pursuit of said hegemony would evolve over the succeeding decades. The "velvet" expansion of the 1990s into the post-Soviet vacuum gave way to the "iron fist" for which the 9/11 terror strikes provided the excuse and which meant invading whichever country Washington desired. However, the "iron fist" efforts in the post-9/11 world demonstrated West's weakness , as sustaining operations in Iraq and Afghanistan proved too much for NATO. This failure ushered the post-"post-9/11″ world, and the "Arab Spring" became the first, though far from the only, demonstration of the evolved Western strategy which fuses the earlier approaches.

The "velvet" aspect is still there: Western entities claim they are promoting "universal human values" which, evidently, is the end that justifies all means and which automatically means it is impossible to commit war crimes in its pursuit. Also, by implication, anyone who stands in the West's way operates under the presumption of guilt. In order to promote said "universal values", the West identifies, creates, or even invents a political movement which, although it consists of corrupt opportunists and outright criminals, ostensibly stands for "universal values". This entity then receives overwhelmingly positive media coverage, to the point of referring to any police or military response to the violence it perpetrates as "war crimes", in order to shape the public opinion in favor of limited military intervention in the form of airstrikes and a small number of special operations troops. Then one merely needs an excuse, a small incident, an insignificant act of violence by the target country's law enforcement of the kind that happen in the US in a daily basis, in order to start beating the war drums against the "blood-soaked regime." This approach was pioneered in Bosnia and Kosovo, the early exceptions to the "velvet" policy, but was then shelved in the post-9/11 era when it seemed that West's aims could be achieved through more direct - and brutal - means, only to be resurrected by the Obama Administration and applied in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine with only minor variations.