4. Baby iguana getting chased by snakes is a whole lot of NOPE

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If you thought husband penguin was having a bad day, think again. In a clip for BBC’s “Planet Earth 2” series, a hatchling iguana runs for its life as it tries to escape being devoured by racer snakes in the Fernandina Islands in the Galapagos.

Worst vacation ever.

3. Dr. Pimple Popper pops the biggest one in her career

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If you’re eating, look away now. If you’re on a diet sit tight. If you’re a depraved, weird sadist, then you’ll enjoy this.
Dr. Sandra Lee, also known as Dr. Pimple Popper, just released a video on her Youtube channel on the biggest pimple pop of her career. A woman travelled all the way from Alaska just for Dr. Lee to operate on her lipoma, which is a benign tumor composed of fat cells. It was so big that it looked like the woman’s deltoid muscle.

If you’re into this kind of thing, sit back, relax, watch and may God have mercy on your soul. FYI, the juicy part is from 13:45 onwards.

 “Brain WiFi” reverses paralysis among primates

In awesome science news, scientists say that an implant that beams instructions from the brain has been used to restore movement among paralyzed primates, BBC reports.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s team was able to circumvent around the injury by sending instructions out of the brain to the nerves controlling the primates’ leg. In more awesome news, experts say that this technology can be ready for human testing in a decade.

In the study, a chip was implanted in the part of the primate’s brain that controls movement. It would then read the spikes of electrical activity that are the instructions for moving the leg, and these were then sent to a computer. The computer would interpret these messages and sent the instructions to the monkey’s spine to stimulate the nerves in its leg. The results showed that the monkeys slowly regained movement in their paralyzed leg in six days and could walk in a straight line in a treadmill. However, experts assert that the way we walk is different from primates and the process of sending instructions would be a lot more complicated. Still, this is a step in the right direction.

Two-headed sharks are popping up and no one knows why

If Jaws, Sharknado, and Shark Week have taught us anything, it’s that you must never, ever mess with sharks. However, two-headed sharks are popping up everywhere at an alarming rate and no one knows why.

In Australia, a fisherman caught a two-headed blue shark embryo in 2008. In 2013, a group of fishermen in Florida found a bull shark with a two-headed fetus in its uterus. Spanish researchers caught a two-headed Atlantic sawtail catshark embryo while rearing sharks for their study.

Though numbers of two-headed sharks have been increasing, sightings have been more seldom, making studying the phenomenon more difficult. Scientists are attributing the rise due to viral infections, pollution and over-fishing. Over-fishing leads to sharks inbreeding hence the genetic mutations.

Though no one knows the definite culprit, we can all say that we shouldn’t be dicks and pollute our waters.

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