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A supercell storm was captured on video in the north east of Scottsbluff, Nebraska on Sunday 18 May.
Timelapse footage shows clouds massing over the landscape, observed by weather enthusiasts in the area.
Source: Storyful / YouTube / Victor Gensini
Vets describe situation ‘like dealing with a thousand heroin addicts’
The usually-rare toxic plant, misleadingly named the "Darling pea", has spread rapidly in the aftermath of bushfires in New South Wales - which themselves caused devastation for sheep farmers in the area.
Now vets have said that many of the animals which survived the fires face a new and highly addictive threat.
North West Local Land Services regional veterinarian Bob McKinnon told the Sydney Morning Herald that once sheep started eating the plant they exhibit behaviour "similar to that of a drunk".
"They lose weight to start with and then get staggery, the progression gets worse, they get unco-ordinated and depressed, they don't know where their feet are."
He said that "staring eyes", "head pressing" and "muscle tremors" were other symptoms, until eventually the animals "just go to a post and bang their head on it till they crack their heads open".
The task of bringing in herds that would normally take six hours instead takes "days", Mr McKinnon said. "It's like dealing with a thousand heroin addicts."
Less than a month after the death of hundreds of guanay cormorants , there was another
mass stranding of dead birds by inappropriate fishing practices.
mass stranding of dead birds by inappropriate fishing practices.
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Source: eldinamo.cl
A child and a disabled man are among the four injured. They have since been evacuated to Hola General Hospital by St John Ambulance and KWS rescuers.
KWS officials are searching for the animal that have left villagers in fear of the possibility of another attack.
© Credit: KTLAThousands of dead fish blanketed the waters off Marina Del Rey on May 18, 2014.
Scores of dead fish, believed to be mostly anchovies, began washing up in a corner of the marina near Bora Bora Way on Saturday night, creating a foul-smelling, silvery blanket on top of the water.
"It's horrible. There's like a million dead anchovies floating around, as well as other fish," said Lisa Lascody, a resident of the area. "It's creepy and weird."
Crews spent Sunday cleaning up, and although carcasses continued to litter the water on Monday, a supervisor with the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors said clean up efforts were over.
The supervisor estimated that about 3,000 to 4,000 fish carcasses were removed from the harbor.
It all started a couple of weeks ago when a small sinkhole first appeared. Officials say it was about the size of a desk. Crews started work to stop the hole from growing and it wouldn't.
Monday, the sinkhole was estimated to be 30 by 50 feet wide -- and 40 feet deep!
So far it has swallowed part of the field and track of Governors Stadium. The stadium is currently undergoing renovations.
"We're not going to skip any steps. That's the reason I brought the engineers back out because it's not going the way we thought it was going so it's time to let the professionals look at it and tell us which way to go. Once they do that we can just continue the process," said project superintendent Mike Jenkins.
© AFPMap of the southeast European countries hit by deadly flooding
Muddy waters from the Sava River have submerged houses, churches, mosques and roads in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia after record rainfall last week wreaked havoc across the region.
There were fears that dead bodies and animal carcasses could lead to disease outbreaks, while officials warned that 120,000 unexploded mines from the conflicts of the 1990s could be dislodged.
"More than 100,000 people" have been evacuated in Bosnia alone, said Stanko Sliskovic of Bosnia's emergency services, with tens of thousands more displaced in neighbouring countries.
"This is the biggest exodus since the end of the 1992-1995 war," he told AFP.
© Ed Kashi, VIIA farmer walks in a dust storm on drought-stricken lands near Felt, Oklahoma, on August 1, 2013.
In Boise City, Oklahoma, over the catfish special at the Rockin' A Café, the old-timers in this tiny prairie town grouse about billowing dust clouds so thick they forced traffic off the highways and laid down a suffocating layer of topsoil over fields once green with young wheat.
They talk not of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, but of the duster that rolled through here on April 27, clocked at 62.3 miles per hour.
It was the tenth time this year that Boise City, at the western end of the Oklahoma panhandle, has endured a dust storm with gusts more than 50 miles per hour, part of a breezier weather trend in a region already known for high winds.
"When people ask me if we'll have a Dust Bowl again, I tell them we're having one now," says Millard Fowler, age 101, who lunches most days at the Rockin' A with his 72-year-old son, Gary. Back in 1935, Fowler was a newly married farmer when a blizzard of dirt, known as Black Sunday, swept the High Plains and turned day to night. Some 300,000 tons of dirt blew east on April 14, falling on Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., and, according to writer Timothy Egan in his book The Worst Hard Time, onto ships at sea in the Atlantic.
© Scott Rolph/Early Bird PhotographyA melon headed whale beached itself at Brunswick Heads.
The rare coastal whale, more akin to a large dolphin, was found about 5.30am, 5km south of Brunswick Heads and was released back into deep water by local police.
However, the marine mammal returned to shore soon after and beached itself again.
A team of carers from National Parks and Wildlife, Ballina Seabird Rescue and Orrca Inc helped Seaworld veterinarians prepare the whale for transport in a special trailer to the Gold Coast aquarium.
There the animal will undergo blood tests and treatment before being released back into the wild.
Ballina Seabird Rescue spokesman Keith Williams, alias Capt Turtle, explained that the whale's sickness was not unlike Parvovirus in dogs.
He said the whale would not end up as an amusement for Seaworld visitors.
Comment: For more unusual occurrences of this kind over the past month, involving normally deep sea dwelling creatures, see also: Bizarre fish caught off Pensacola pier, Florida
Strange deep sea fish caught at Pamban, India
Rare Sturgeon washes up along Connecticut River
Rare, mysterious deep sea fish washes ashore along North Carolina coast
Monster jellyfish spotted on beaches of South West Wales
Rare, deep-water megamouth shark caught off the coast of Japan
Scientists puzzled by odd creature found on South African beach
Something stirring down below? Rare deep water goblin shark caught off Key West, Florida
© FWC Facebook page
The specimen was caught off a pier in Pensacola, and as of Friday, was on its way to the FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.
The fish has a long smooth tail with no fins, and looks almost prehistoric.
Researchers will confirm the ID of the species, and take a tissue sample for DNA analysis.
Comment: Just some of the bizarre and deep water creatures turning up on beaches around the world!
Strange deep sea fish caught at Pamban, India
Rare Sturgeon washes up along Connecticut River
Rare, mysterious deep sea fish washes ashore along North Carolina coast
Monster jellyfish spotted on beaches of South West Wales
Rare, deep-water megamouth shark caught off the coast of Japan
Scientists puzzled by odd creature found on South African beach
Something stirring down below? Rare deep water goblin shark caught off Key West, Florida
Comment: As seen in the video, repurposing early sinkhole indents as they call 'the bowls', for student use and merely landscaping around them, looks like a nomination for a Darwin award. These holes are potentially deadly as they open up in no time, and like academics are most they choose to just sweep the inconvenient evidence under the carpet. Earth is increasingly opening up at an alarming rate: