This terrifying beast is bigger than the average cockroach. The Decarnocimex makes victims of anything too small or weak to escape.
The biggest of Skull Island’s cavernous creatures, this angry insect tears its prey apart with its bladed forearms and mandibles.
horrific cross between a spider and crab, this animal takes its prey from the injured and dead.
The Arachno-claw calls the dark caverns of Skull Island its home, and it is here that it hunts out its victims.
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This disgusting creature, isn’t as friendly as your regular garden slug. The Carnictis can swallow you whole.
Typically this foul beast lives in muck and uses its sharp teeth to feed on both the wounded and the dead.
The Terapusmordax is also known as the filthy, pungent bat. This ginormous winged creature can be found within the caverns of Skull Island.
With a wingspan of 10 ft, these huge animals live in colonies and tear their victims apart using their talons and fangs.
Skull Island: Reign of Kong is the newest attraction coming to Universal Orlando Resort’s Islands of Adventure park.
This summer, guests will take a step back in time to join the 8th Wonder Expedition on a journey through Skull Island.
As explorers venture through the island’s mysterious tunnels, visitors will encounter strange creatures and frightening dinosaurs before eventually coming face to face with the ruler of the island, Kong himself.
Over the past few weeks Universal have been unveiling more and more about their uber-exciting upcoming attraction, specifically the ground-breaking technology that has gone into creating the humongous trucks that guests will ride. But these trackless ride vehicles are not the only beasts that guests will encounter…
One of the most bizarre features of our solar system can actually be seen from the Earth. In fact, this phenomenon is so bizarre that the Earth is the only place it can be seen from.
Our home planet is occasionally treated to the spectacle known as the full solar eclipse. This happens when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, entirely blocking it from view. By an astounding coincidence, the sun happens to be 400 times wider than the moon, but also 400 times further away, making them appear the same size in the Earth’s sky.
Despite the fact that this happens at least twice a year on Earth, as far as we know, it is totally unique and doesn’t occur anywhere else in the solar system, with its 181 moons, 173 of which orbit the “proper” planets.
There’s a lot of focus on Mars as a potential Earth 2.0, what with it being the closest to our planet and all, but we might be better off looking slightly further afield.
Titan is weird for all kinds of reasons. It’s a moon, but it’s bigger than Mercury; it has lakes and oceans, but made up of hydrocarbons such as ethane and methane; and it has an atmosphere that is remarkably similar to Earth’s.
Our nearest neighbours, Mar and Venus, both have atmospheres 100 times thinner and 100 times thicker than the Earth’s respectively, but Titan’s is just 1.5 times thicker than ours. What’s more, it’s mostly nitrogen – about 90%, compared to 80% here at home.
Instead of a water cycle, huge amounts of organic compounds rain down on Titan, forming great lakes teeming with “tholins” which, according to Carl Sagan, are a precursor to carbon-based lifeforms like us.
Io, one of the inner moons of Jupiter, is the most volcanically active place in the solar system. It churns out 100 times more lava than the Earth from over 400 active volcanoes, despite being a teeny 1/12th of the size.
Io’s violent nature is caused by the effects of the other Jovian moons, Europa and Ganymede. As the orbits of these three moons interact, they exert tidal forces on Io, essentially squashing and stretching it, causing a large amount of its mantle to melt and fire through the surface as lava.
The heat produced by this activity is so intense that is was picked up by the New Horizons probe as it passed by in 2007. The probe snapped the above image, showing a volcanic eruption, spewing matter far above the moon’s surface.
We’re back in Saturn’s neighbourhood here, with one if its moons, Enceladus.
Those bright plumes pictured above are made up of tons and tons of material being fired from beneath the moon’s surface and off into space. Some of this falls back to the surface as snow, but a lot of it escapes and supplies much of the material that goes into making Saturn’s rings. It looks like Enceladus is creating a nice little ring all its own.
It’s not entirely certain what is causing Enceladus to expel its innards into space, but many scientists think that it could be evidence of an ocean of liquid water, locked beneath the icy surface.
Space travel is tricky, and a large proportion of our missions to the stars actually fail, including almost two thirds of Mars missions.
Sure, human space exploration is still in its infancy, but could there be something else at play? The Galactic Ghoul or the Mars Curse is how some people refer to the high failure rate of our missions to Mars, conjuring up images of some great martian beast, subsisting on a diet of space probes and rocket fuel.
So, is there really something messing with our space probes? Probably not, and almost certainly not a great galactic ghoul. There’s an outside chance that there is some kind of unaccounted for interference out there that might be messing with our instruments. However, a much better explanation is that space travel is hard. Seeing as we send a large amount of technology to Mars, it being our closest neighbour, the failure rate is going to be proportionally higher.
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