Japanese Join Hunt to Capture Bat Boy [humor]

Weekly World News-- WEST VIRGINIA – Bat Boy is still on the loose and U.S. officials are losing patience. They’ve called in the big guns to help!

America’s favorite mutant continues to elude and evade F.B.I.’s and other U.S. officials attempts to capture him. When they think they have him backed into a corner, Bat Boy takes off in a Mini Cooper and leads authorities on multiple state car chase. State budgets are being exhausted on headache medicine and stakeout essentials such as coffee and donuts. In an effort to level the playing field, the Japanese have been brought into the hunt.

For years, the Japanese have been fascinated with Bat Boy and have been clamoring to help. Americans have finally been able to put their stubbornness aside and requested the Japanese’s help. Our Asian friends have had an ace up their sleeve the whole time and have sent over their top operative, special officer Arashi Yuko.

The Blood Falls of Antarctica

Atlas Obscura-- This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular.

Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.