Amazing Discoveries In The Most Unusual Places

Published on 10/05/2023
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World’s Largest Flower Found in Jungle

Location: West Sumatra, Indonesia
Year Discovered: 2020
Est. Value: Unknown

Conservationists came across the largest flower bloom in the world while exploring a remote jungle in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Rafflesia tuan-mudae is the name of the flower species, which is renowned for its enormous, elusive blossoms that bloom for only one week towards the conclusion of the plant’s life. The largest Rafflesia ever recorded, this enormous flower has a diameter of 3.6 feet. The flower has flesh-colored petals with white dots, making it simple to identify. The flower itself belongs to the “corpse flower” kind of flora, which means it smells like a dead body, hence this unfavorable description is accurate.

World’s Largest Flower Found In Jungle

World’s Largest Flower Found In Jungle

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Shark Found In Middle of Golf Course

Location: San Juan Capistrano, California
Year Discovered: 2012
Est. Value: $850*

When Sharknado debuted in 2013, everyone made fun of it, but it appears that Thunder Levin ultimately had the final laugh since perhaps his films weren’t so fictitious after all. A year before the release of those films, no less, a shark actually did drop from the sky and land close to the 12th tee of a golf course in California. The two-pound leopard shark fell onto the turf, shocking the San Juan Capistrano Golf Course staff. As it turned out, a bird dropped the leopard shark by accident and transported it from the ocean where it was discovered to be alive. The puzzled fish was placed in a bucket of salt water by cart attendants, who then transported it to Baby Beach where they released it back into its natural environment.

Shark Found In Middle Of Golf Course

Shark Found In Middle Of Golf Course

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