A couple in Northern Minnesota noticed water levels at the pond behind their home steadily rising over a period of seven years, due to the diligent construction of a beaver dam nearly nine feet in length near a spillway. The beavers steadily added to the damn over the years, causing the overall pond to rise almost a foot and half. Unfortunately, all the beavers hard work literally fell to pieces as their dam collapsed, sending tons of water back down into a lower-lying area. While the initial devastation looked very grim, revealing the lake bed in much of the area behind the dam, this story has a happy ending. 6 months later, the beavers rebuilt the dam, to a smaller and less vulnerable 4 feet in length.
Nature show cameraman finds a deadly surprise guest hiding out in his bathroom
While on location in Indonesia, filming deadly reptiles in the wild for the BBC’s second entry into its Planet Earth series, cameraman Mark MacEwen discovered one of the beasts he had just captured on video had holed itself up in his bathroom. Not wanting to risk his own injury or worse at the jaws of...
