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A boy born in Colorado Springs had surgery two and a half months ago to remove a tumor in his brain. His mother’s doctor found fluid in his brain during an ultrasound, and scheduled an emergency c-section to take care of it at 41 weeks (that’s about 9 months anyway). Sam Esquibel was born looking fine and dandy. After confirming the tumor with an MRI, they opened up his head at 3 days old to take care of what appeared to be a tumor. You know, the regular-type mass of cells that shouldn’t be where it is. They found this little guy inside:

The tumor had a this fully formed foot and thigh, another foot, and a hand. Keep in mind these are super small, as they were removed from a small tumor in a baby’s head. It’s been two and a half months, and Sam is almost totally healed at this point. He has some physical therapy to be scheduled for his neck and head, but besides that, he’s okay!

reported by the Denver Post
AP release
wtf nature

Back in 2004, a sperm whale had been found beached and dying on the shores of Taiwan. It died by the time help arrived, so they were moving the body to the Shi-Tsao Natural Preserve to be examined at the order of Professor Wang Chien-ping after the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan said it would not accept the body.

The body had other plans, choosing to go out with a bang. Literally. The gases within the decomposing giant had built up enough to pop its belly, spilling the stomach and other random organs into the streets of Tainan. Entrails!

From what they could tell, the whale was a 50 ton bull, 17 meters long (~55 feet). National Geographic is playing a documentary this weekend on the event. I could not find a listing for it online, but some person in the wtf_nature community said it is so it must be true.

bbc article on original explosion

when sea gulls actually look for food that isn’t in a dumpster

looking for chips omnomnom