beach monster

beach monster this mighty mosaic  dragon on a beach in china is make from 900 tents.  oops sorry wrong tent.

blueberry brain power

could berry  be answer to healthy  life and an active brian . After year of stidying  blueberry  - eating rats in the laboratory and blueberry  -eating people in the world  some scientists are convinced that  blueberries  are brain berries  that protect  our brian cells from damage and memory  loss. The secret  ingreding these resrchers say  flavonoids chemical compounds  also  found in soy milk tofu and  listen up chocolatelate lovers cocoa But forget blueberry  pancake or blueberry pie cooking berries may destroy their helpful flavonoids.   

unusual mail

we at ripley Hq love  to give  things away especially ripley  book. for  last year unusual  mail  contest fans water  invited send anything to us literally  anything  for a chance to win books  from our wast library  of thitles. The  only  rule  was that all submissions had to be received intact  by regular post (no couriers) with  no wrapping or packing of any sort! The address and  the stamps had to  be placed directly on  the object mailed.  we received  inventive  submission  from 27 different states and five  different countries  some entries  were simple  postcards playing cards as will as small objects like toothbrushes and fridge magnets. However our big winners all though big and strange. The life size rag doll was largest entries we received this beautiful fan was one of the more unusual submission  note the postage stamps along the  bottom handle.  this traffic  cone was one of the more inventive submission to ripleys  unusual mail contest.  

snakes head

in order  to deter predators the moth caterpillar  hemeroplanes triptolemus can transform inself in seconds so that its body looks just like the head  of a poisonous green viper snake.