Whole World weeps for you, Steve Irwin

Steven Robert Irwin (a.k.a Crocodile Hunter), famous naturalist, wildlife expert and TV personality breathed his last on September 4th in an encounter with stingray fish. In the last moments of his life, he was videotaped pulling a venomous stingray barb. This Aussie Icon was swimming in shallow water in Great Barrier Reef for his documentary when a stingray brandished it's tail against him, and the toxic barb made it's way into his chest. The cameraman, was videotaping the scence and could not understand what had happened until the water around him was red i.e stained with blood and he managed to get him on a small inflatable boat. There was a doctor in the team, and as he treated him, they took him to the nearby island within a span of thirty minutes, where a helicopter had landed, by which time, our dearly beloved Steve Irwin died of the poison in the barb.
Stinray are not usually so dangerous-Some zoos in U.S.A allows it's visitor to pat the small sized stingrays. The stingray probably have felt trapped between Irwin and the cameramen, the experts opinion and attacked him, for they are not feasible to attack unless they are provoked. So far, 18 people had died due to their attack, 2 of which's casualties have been occurred in Australia.
This ever-great lover of animals was born on February 22nd, 1962 to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria was best known for the 'Crocodile Hunter', an unconventional documentary series broadcasted worldwide. He rose to fame by his close interactions with many beasts, especially snake and needless to say- Crocodiles.
Irwin's producer and manager, John Stainton was one of the crews on the reef, and described the day as the 'worst' day ever in his life, watching an intimate friend, naturalist and perfect dad die so close.
However, the cops of Queensland considered the incident to be just a tragic accident, after analysing the video tape, at least at this moment.
“It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he’s gone,” Stainton informed the reporters in Cairns, where Irwin’s body was taken for an autopsy. His friend John Stainton told Australian media that the cameraman floated in front of the ray as Irwin swam alongside. The animal likely felt cornered. The barb swung. If the camera hadn't been there, perhaps it would not have feared and then attacked. But if there was no cameras, probably we would not know a single bit of him and he could have been as a frog in a dark cell.
(to be continued)

Pregnant Man!

An amazing thing happened to Sanju Bhagat, a 36-year-old farmer living in a small village near Nagpur city in India. He had an unusually large stomach for as long as he could remember but because he was a very thin man; his odd complexion reminded everyone of a pregnant woman. According to the man’s own account all the neighbors used to laugh at his stomach’s size.

Finally the belly had become so huge that the poor farmer could barely breathe, and the issue was no longer a cosmetic one.
When the ambulance finally brought him to the hospital Phe was immediately sent to the operation room. The doctors assumed that what he had was a gigantic tumor and were very concerned about all sorts of complications during the operation. They were prepared for the worst as they set off to remove the malignant formation, and no one dared to imagine what kind of thing they would soon discover. As soon as the surgeon cut deeper into the belly, almost a bucket of liquid spilled out onto the surface. Then the extraordinary thing happened. The doctor placed his hand inside and announced that there were many bones. “First one limb came out, then another. Then a genitalia fragment, hair, limbs, jaws…” – recalls one of the surgeon’s assistants. Out of Sanju’s stomach came forth a weird half-formed creature with well-developed arms and legs and quite long nails.
As it turned out Bhagat had one of the rarest medical anomaly: fetus in fetu, and the horrific-looking creature pulled out of him in actuality was a mutated body of his twin brother.
According to the doctors’ reports there are only 90 known cases in the history of medicine when a twin sibling gets trapped by the second one and continues its development as a parasite. This tends to happen very early in pregnancy and usually both of the twins die before birth. In rare times, however, the twin survives with the other inside and goes on living while carrying and feeding an underdeveloped parasitical fetus through their shared umbilical chord. Usually there is medical intervention at the point when the parasite becomes so big that it causes harm to its host.
Immediately after the surgery Sanju began to feel a lot better. When the doctors told him what (or rather whom) they removed from his body, he refused to take a look at his “brother.” The man ended up going back to his village and continues a normal life there. But he still gets teased a lot when people tell each other that the farmer went to the city to have a baby. Oddly they are somewhat right…
Extracted from Newspaper