south africa
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This Could Be Why Orcas Have Been Eating Great White Sharks In South Africa
Image: Hennie Otto/Marine Dynamics/Dyer Island Conservation Trust A South African shark-watching hotspot has recently turned into the scene of a seaside horror movie. For several months, enormous great white shark corpses have been washing up on the Gansbaai beaches, often missing their livers as if feasted upon by cetacean Hannibal Lecters. But this is no…
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This Stunning Drone Footage Of South Africa Looks Like A Real Life Lion King
Video: For the past couple of years, mediocre drone videos of dramatic landscapes have littered the internet. Like, we get it, drone pilots. Your camera flies and stuff looks pretty from the sky and the whole conceit is pretty trite at this point. And then I saw these four minutes of magic, filmed in South…
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Ancient Microbes May Have Created The World’s Largest Gold Mines
Nearly half the gold ever mined comes from the Witwatersrand Basin, a layer of gold-flecked rock that spreads out under South Africa. The mines there are famously deep and prolific. Why is there so much gold concentrated in this one small part of the Earth’s crust?
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This Stone Mosaic Of Johannesburg Looks Like A Real Satellite Map
From afar, this bird’s eye view of Johannesburg looks like a satellite snapshot. But it’s not — it’s actually a massive, meticulously created mosaic. It contains thousands of fragments of stone and tile, but together, they look amazingly photorealistic.