In search of the Yeti

Some experts wonder if the gigantopiteco is really extinct or whether it could still live in the dense foliage of some remote jungle. The paleoanthropologist at the University of Iowa Russell Ciochon categorically denies this, but there are researchers who have not completely discarded the idea and who believe that these creatures simiescas that from time to time someone says, whether they have seen Big Foot, Yeti, or abominable Snow-are merely the product of human encounters with the Gigantopithecus, which would still be alive and kicking.

Capitalizing on the interest generated by the new version of the famous fictional film King Kong, History Channel produced a documentary entitled giants: the real King Kong, which explores the possibility that the supersimio still alive. In addition to collecting the investigation of Ciochon, in the documentary interview with Jeff Meldrum, of the University of Idaho, who heads the North American Ape Project, which aims to investigate the existence of the giant.

Meldrum and his colleagues embark on the first publicly-funded expedition to support or dismiss the theory, since according to the expert said, "there are many credible testimony about sightings of huge ape in various parts of the world, amazingly
coinciding with each other. "

The cameras travel to some caves in Guangxi province in China, where Ciochon conducts its search for fossils, and from there go to Leipzig, Germany, for laboratory analysis. In collects U.S. statements of several witnesses who claim to have seen the great ape crossing a road in a national park, or browsing their tent.

Where is the wave Cribb?

For some surfers, riding his biggest dream is ever in his life on Cribb, a giant wave that appears in late afternoon Cribb of the reef, about 800 metres from the beach Fistral, in Cornwall (England).

Only a couple of times a year you can see this wave, which reaches 12-14 meters high.
For many years, Cribb was considered impractical because of their remoteness from the coast, its large and unpredictable currents in the area.

How to raise a giant rabbit

There are two methods to artificially alter the traits and qualities of animals: selective breeding and genetic manipulation. The latter involves the manipulation of genes in biotechnology laboratories.

For example, three years ago scientists from the August Cieszkowski Agricultural University in Poland, rabbits inserted in the gene for human growth hormone. The resulting transgenic animals were larger than the rest of their fellow human beings, although the real purpose of the experiment was that females produce this hormone for human therapeutic use, for example, children with growth problems.

Another way to alter the size of a rabbit is through selective breeding, a practice that farmers have been doing for thousands of years.
This is basically select copies with a quality and encourage their reproduction.
Thus, the Berlin keeper Hans Wagner has managed to breed giant rabbits with a weight of 8 to 10 kilos and a length next to Subway.