Mysterious silk structure in the Amazon known as a "silkhenge" captured in new 4K video

Try and crack the mystery of Silkhenge and WHY it has this incredible structure around it.

These strange and tiny structures, each small enough to fit on a fingertip, have captivated and perplexed scientists since the first one was discovered in 2013 in Peru, near the Tambopata Research Center.

A tapering central cone ringed by delicate silk pillars reminiscent of Stonehenge led to the name.

A new 4K video filmed by entomologist Phil Torres and Ryan Lagod during a recent visit to ‘Silkhenge Island’ in Peru revealed that these strange structures serve as protective fences around spider egg sacs, but the species of spider behind the structures has yet to be identified.

Watch the 4K video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNaj-82QIK8&feature=emb_title
Read full article on this mysterious "silkhenge" at:
https://www.livescience.com/silkhenge-returns-video.html

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Flocks consisting of thousands of grackles invaded a Houston City shopping centre parking lot in Texas. Footage of the incident features thousands of grackles taking over a Kroger grocery store parking area, while also resting on power lines and cars. “This is just crazy. Look at these birds, they're like everywhere,” says Tracy Miller - “Just thousands and thousands and thousands…” They were everywhere: rooftops, cars, on the ground, in the trees. The sky was abuzz with them all, and they were so loud!" Miller told Storyful. Read full article and watch three videos of the thousands of birds at: https://sputniknews.com/viral/202002031078208044-video-flocks-of-birds-invade-texas-shopping-centre-parking-lot-in-terrifying-moment/

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It Rains Liquid Iron On This Planet

Scientists detect an exotic planet in another solar system where the weather forecast is always dire - a 100 percent chance of the most outrageous rain imaginable, with droplets of scaldingly hot liquid iron. Researchers using the ESPRESSO instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile recently detected a super-heated exoplanet located 640 light years from Earth. Dubbed WASP-76b, the planet is nearly twice the size of Jupiter and orbits a star almost twice the size as the sun. Read full article and watch video at: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/video-planet-where-it-rains-liquid-iron

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