'As bad as those Americans shooting lions and elephants': Fisherman catch huge tiger shark that could be a new world record – but refuse to talk about the catch because of the abuse they’ve received online

A group of fishermen have been so heavily criticised for hauling in a potentially record-breaking shark that they will not discuss the catch.

An image of three unidentified men standing next to a huge tiger shark caught on Australia Day, reportedly weighing 635.5 kg and reeled in using a 15 kg line - which could be a world record - sparked extreme reactions.

The picture, posted to Facebook page Offshore Fishing NSW, was reportedly taken at Lake Macquarie New South Wales where the shark was weighed, but as the men who caught it have not commented, further information about the catch is not available.

Their silence has been attributed to the massive backlash they received by a fisherman who was not involved in the catch but wanted to remain anonymous, Fairfax reported. 

More than 2,400 comments have been made on the picture, and it is hard to find many in support of the anglers.

Cynthia Tucker wrote: 'You guys need to protect not kill, what joy can be got from taking the life of such a magnificent creature. Shame on you'. 

'D***heads', 'Disgusting', 'dumb f***s', 'pathetic, 'a***holes' and 'c***s' are just some of the things the men have been called.

The man who caught the shark refused to speak to Fairfax, directing them to the Lake Macquarie Game Fishing Club.

Its secretary, Casey Sadler, would not comment, and the president, Paul Hogg, failed to reply to 'repeated' attempts to contact him.

Local fishermen would not speak either, saying the backlash was not worth it.

While positive comments on the photograph were hard to find, they did exist.

One poster, Geoff Marsh, called for reason, writing: 'Did anyone consider there was no intention to catch and kill it? It was a side affect [sic] of the hook up? Got to love social media. Everyone has a conclusion without all of the facts. 

Kieran N Ash wrote: 'Top job boys... If people don't like this picture, why follow the page or comment? Simple don't like it move on. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean everyone hates.'

By Sunday evening, the picture of the men with the shark had been 'liked' on Facebook more than 3,800 times and shared nearly 4,000 times.

Reptile takes 38 years to lay an egg (and it's hardly surprising, it took 12 years to get together with the father!) By Alexander Robertson

Breeders at a zoo are celebrating after finally convincing a rare lizard-like reptile to mate - and it's only taken 38 years.

Staff at Chester Zoo have been trying for four decades to get a female tuatara to breed, without any success.

However specialist keeper Isolde McGeorge, who has been caring for the species at the zoo since 1977, can proudly claim to be the first British midwife to the birth of a tuatara, which can live to the grand old age of 120 and are now solely found in New Zealand.

But it certainly wasn't an easy feat, with the particular pairing of a male called Pixie and a female named Mustard taking about 12 years to set up, ending with two eggs being produced.

The breeding of the reptile is notoriously hard, with each individual taking up to 20 years to reach sexual maturity and breeding conditions coming around at a rate of just once every four years.

The first tuatara hatchling finally emerged from its egg late last year after an incubation period of 238 days.

Ms McGeorge told The Independent: 'Immediately, I broke down in tears. I was completely overwhelmed by what we had achieved.

'Tuataras are notoriously difficult to breed, and it's probably fair to say that I know that better than most as it has taken me 38 years to get here.

'It's taken lots of hard work, lots of stressful moments and lots of tweaking of the conditions in which we keep the animals along the way – but it has all been very much worth it.'

The first youngster, named 'baby Isolde' after its enthusiastic keeper, was born in December, with Chester Zoo keeping tight-lipped about the birth until now.

The zoo is set to be the subject of a Channel 4 documentary series called The Secret Life of the Zoo, where staff will be filmed going about their work.

Although similar in appearance to other lizards, the tuatara actually belong to a different reptilian order called Rhynchocephalia.

After the female is inseminated, she lays her eggs in sand some distance from its home burrow.

After discovering both eggs, Ms McGeorge transported them and placed them in an incubator. 

Photos: Sidaka Lemur Danced Jazz on the Street in Africa

A Sifaka lemur was spotted “dancing” across a road on the African island in Madagascar. 

If ever they make a live-action version of the Madagascar animated films, this loose-limbed character must be a shoo-in for Julien, the all-dancing ‘lord of the lemurs’.

Experts say the sifaka lemurs’ unique way of moving – standing on their hind legs and throwing their arms in the air – has evolved as a way of getting away from predators as quickly as possible. 

(Mail Online)

ViewerDiscretionIsAdviced: 4year old girl & her dad burnt to death during Boko Haram attack in Maiduguri yesterday

A 4 year old girl and her father were among those that were burnt to death inside their homes during an attack on Dalori, a settlement situated on the outskirt of Maiduguri, Borno state yesterday January 30th. Over 100 people were reportedly killed during the attack which lasted over 3 hours. The sect members, dressed in military uniform, shot people dead and burnt homes. 

Photos: Elephant impales a Buffalo

One big Buffalo met a horrific death at the tusks of a much larger animal. The Buffalo had been sleeping in the shade of a tree when a female elephant came upon it suddenly, stunned, the buffalo charged at her and sealed its fate. He headbutted her prompting her to retaliate, the elephant impaled him and shook him to death with its tusks.

The buffalo did not die immediately and rangers at the reserve think the animal must have been unwell to act so out of character. The incident played out at the Maasai Marai reserve in Kenya and was captured by amateur photographer, Kimberly Maurer, 56, who was on holiday at the reserve. She said:

'I started looking through the images on the back of my camera immediately after the attack and became very excited to discover that I had actually captured the event in detail. This photograph was, no doubt, a once-in-a-lifetime capture for me. As you would imagine, his carcass was a meal for another animal or two.'

Photos: Faces of Chinese Rock Stars Painted as Temples

  

An oil painting series titled “Revels of the Rock Gods” carving the portraits of Chinese rock stars as Buddhist temples, pagodas or other traditional Chinese architectural structures is now exhibited in Tokyo’s Mizuma Art Gallery.

Beijing-based artist Du Kun began to create these oil on canvas works from 2014 out of his own passion for ‪#‎RockMusic‬. 

(Source: Global Times)

Photos: You should see some of the tactics used by people in attempt to smuggle illegal items into Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia custom officials posted some of the various illegal items people have attempted to smuggle into the country. One of the most popular items uncovered by officials is alcohol which is completely banned in Saudi Arabia.

As seen in the photos, some people have hid bottles of whiskey in the crevices of their cars in the hope that the normal-looking exterior is enough to mask what lies beneath. In the first six days of January alone, almost 535,000 Captagon pills were found during a number of different searches by Saudi customs officers: 414,000 pills were found in truck tires; 100,000 were concealed in wooden pallets; and another 10,000 were found in the lining of a man’s underwear. 

Smugglers have even used camels to try and get their contraband into the country, with Saudi officials discovering a camel with 115,000 narcotic pills on its back.

In an attempt to sneak 48,000 cans of Heineken into the country, a smuggler wrapped each can in the Pepsi logo.

SAG Awards 2016: The complete winners list

The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have crowned this year's winners! The SAG Awards are the only ceremony where actors vote for the year's best performances in movies and television. Idris Elba and Helen Mirren led the pack with three nominations apiece, while Oscar nominees Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Winslet were all at the event.

See the list of 2016 SAG Award winners below:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture: Spotlight

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture: Brie Larson, Room

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series: Downton Abbey

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series: Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series: Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Idris Elba, Luther

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries: Queen Latifah, Bessie

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series: Orange Is the New Black

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series: Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series: Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture:Mad Max Fury Road

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series: Game of Thrones

Lifetime Achievement Award: Carol Burnett

Chelsea midfielder sets record transfer fee in China’s Super League

The Chelsea midfielder Ramires has signed a four-year contract with China’s Jiangsu Suning for a fee of 28 million Euros, which set the highest record transfer fee in China’s Super League history.

While the signing came as a shock to football fans around the world, especially when he just signed a four-year contract at Stamford Bridge in October, Ramires said he could not resist the offer proposed by the Chinese football club.

Ramires, who’s also a member of the Brazilian national team, told a Brazilian media Terra that he’s confident about his position in Brazilian team.

“As more Brazilian footballers come to China, the Chinese Super League will get more attention…since I’ve won nearly all the titles at club level, I would love to try my best to make it all happen here in China,” he said.

The 29-year-old Brazilian used to be a backbone member of the Premier League champion team, however he lost his first team position under the interim stewardship of Guus Hiddink.

While with Chelsea, Ramires helped the team to win the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League and Europa League, making 251 appearances and scoring 34 goals.

Since Chinese President Xi Jinping, also an avid football fan himself, launched a number of initiatives to promote China’s football, the Chinese Super League has been under the spotlight of the global media for a number of signings of world-class players.

Currently Ramires holds the top transfer fee in China’s Super League, followed by 18 million Euro’s paid to Elkeson of Shanghai SIPG and Gervinho’s 15 million Euro from Hebei China Fortune.

Penguin becomes this Brazilian’s most loyal companion

A retired man in Brazil seemingly made a friend for life when he saved a penguin native to South America. For the past five years this same penguin changed its natural habits and chooses to visit his savior a couple of times a year, reported odditycentral.com on Wednesday.

The penguin's savior is João Pereira de Souza, a retired brick-layer from Rio de Janeiro. He happened to save the penguin in 2011 when he found it near his home. He took the animal home to clean it up and feed it food, and that’s when a strange friendship began to take shape. 

Even when the old man tried to send the penguin back to ocean, it kept coming back to him, to the extent that it would change its natural habit such as breeding seasons just to reunite with the man, staying for a number of days and leaving again. 

Photo: The Wall Street Journal/Youtube

Photos: Unlikely goat and tiger friendship tragically ends in fight

The unlikely bromance hit the headlines in November when ‪#‎Timur‬ the ‪#‎goat‬ was sent into the predator's enclosure as one of the feline's twice-weekly meals of live animals. The goat obviously did not know he was meant to be afraid of tigers and gave a horned rebuttal to attempts to eat him.

On Friday, ‪#‎Amur‬ the Siberian ‪#‎tiger‬ finally hit back. After weeks of gentle bullying and at least an hour of outright aggression, the feline grabbed the goat by the scruff of the neck, shook and then tossed it down a small hill in their enclosure.

Admittedly, Timur had spent an hour walking on the tiger, poking him with horns and trying to push him around, Primorsky Safari Park in Russia's far southeastern corner announced.

The goat has now been removed from their shared enclosure.
Until this week's tussle, the pair had been living comfortably and even playing "soccer" together with an old ball.

And rather than becoming dinner, Timur has eaten so well that he's begun to suffer from obesity.

Photos: Meet the Nigerian man without a degree who builds mini Aircraft

Nigerian man Aghogho Ajiyen from Delta state, builds Aircraft with local materials. Even without a University degree, he assembles these machines and make them to fly. He assembled his first aircraft in 1999 but didn't succeed at it. He continued and got better with his next try. He said he does his research on how to assembly aircraft by himself and decided to put it to test. 

He even installs a camera on them which he uses to survey his environment and has developed his own special fuel for his aircraft. Amazing.