Giant African Land Snails, as big as your foot, invade southern Florida.

Giant African Snail in Florida

The Giant African land snail grows as large as a rat and can eat through the walls of a home – and they’re invading southern Florida. Hundreds of thousands of the snails are emerging from hibernation and eating through everything in their path. Destruction by digestion aside, their shells are so hard, they can blow…

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Meteor in Russia explodes, injuring hundreds of people, only hours before record-breaking comet passes by Earth. The Chelyabinsk meteor event.

Russian meteor 2013

A powerful meteor with the power of a 300-kiloton atomic bomb blasted the Russian region of the Urals early on Friday about 9:20 AM local time injuring over 1,000 people, hospitalizing more than 100 persons (two critically injured), damaging several hundred building structures (including a zinc factory that appears to have taken a direct hit),…

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