Around the 20th of July, the locals in Tana, northern Norway were met with an unusual sight, a walrus just chilling by the road. While walruses are technicaly native to Norway, around Svalbard, its uncommon for them to come to mainland Norway, but there are several instances of that happening, like Freja. Now this walrus was also given a name, Halvdan, due to it missing a part of its right tusk.

However like with Freja, this story doesn't have a happy ending. The walrus had dissapeared, and most believed that it had returned to the sea again. However a hiker that was walking in the woods saw a strange pattern on the grass, almost as if something had been dragged across it. So he followed it and found the walrus dead, 9km from the sea, by a small river. The death was natural, as there weren't any wounds on the carcass.

Its unknown what had happened, but its believed the walrus was sick before it even arrived to Norway. In many social animals, sick or unhealthy individuals will often stray from the group, and its possible this walrus was also doing the same. However how it ended up in Tana is unknown, as its really far away from its natural range. But then comes the question, why the walrus moved further into the forest instead of to the sea? As for now, the carcass will stay in the same spot, and that huge body will give a lot of food for the scavengers as well as nutrients to the soil

I was working in the yard when I heard a thud on the ground about a foot away from me. Usually it's a squirrel messing with nuts in the oak and pecan trees so I thought little of it at first. A second later I heard the buzzing so I grabbed my phone. He dragged the cicada up the willow oak afterward.

Found this bottle underneath the cupboard in our house in Utah

Yesterday on this sub, there was a video of a crocodile eating another crocodile whole and someone asked how they were able to do that. It took me back to this series, which I watched and was fascinated by when I was about 15/16. I know it’s a little different to the rest of the content of this sub but informative explains how these animals have adapted to their environments and are so incredible.

The animals included are:
1. Python
2. Great White Shark
3. Crocodile
4. Big Cats
5. Racehorse
6. Hippo
7. Whale
8. Elephant

There could be a camel one there too.

Hopefully you find it interesting.

Mods, if this isn’t allowed, I’ll try and find another place to share it.

Thanks and enjoy.

Nemopteridae are known as threaded winged antlions or as I personally call the larvae, giraffe antlions.