1. Philippines' giant crocodile
The Mayor of Agusan del Sur Province in Philippines poses with a huge crocodile that was captured by residents and crocodile farm staff on Sunday, September 4, 2011. It took a three-week hunt by dozens of villagers and experts to ensnare the 21-foot male creature, one of the largest crocs to be captured alive in the Philippines in recent years.
2. Cyclops shark
This unbelievable (yet real) photo shows a one-eyed albino shark that was found off the coast of Isla Cerralvo near La Paz, Mexico, in June 2011. The image went viral after being posted on the blog of a local sportfishing company, which was forced to defend the photo after skeptics questioned its integrity. The company later published more pictures of the unique albino baby and discovered that a commercial fisherman had extracted it after catching a dead female bull shark with ten pups inside her.
3. Vancouver riot kiss
A young couple chose to make love, not war, as riot police struggled to control the violence that erupted after the Vancouver Canucks lost game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals on June 15, 2011. When the image went viral on the Web, the kissing couple was identified as Scott Jones of Perth, Australia, and Alexandra Thomas, a recent graduate of the University of Guelph in Ontario. Jones later revealed that the couple had been knocked down by riot police and he was merely trying to calm down his girlfriend amid the chaos.
4. Atlantis shuttle launch
The coolest photo of the space shuttle Atlantis launch wasn't taken by NASA but by high school graduate Ryan Graff, who snapped this pic from his window seat on a flight from Baltimore to Miami on July 8, 2011. The image quickly went viral once Ryan's brother, Chad, uploaded it to his Twitpic account, where it has received over 177,000 views.
5. Earthquake bride
Now better known as the Earthquake Bride, Valeriya Shevchenko was snapped running from a courthouse in lower Manhattan, New York, on August 23, 2011. Clutching her cell phone and a bouquet, the bride-to-be was frantically searching for her fiance after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattled Virginia and surrounding regions. Thankfully, the happy couple were reunited and married the same day.
6. Bubble lake
Landscape photographer Emmanuel Coupe was named 2011 National Geographic Traveler Photographer of the Year for this photo of a frozen lake in Canada.
7. Pepper spray at UC Davis
Public outrage emerged when police officers at University of California, Davis, used pepper spray to control Occupy UC Davis protesters who were seated in the school's quad on November 18, 2011. Video and photos of the controversial incident were quickly beamed around the Internet. In a comedic twist on a disturbing event, the man behind the pepper spray trigger, Lieutenant John Pike, became the face of an Internet meme that saw his image pasted into various famous scenes.
8. Lightning strikes Eiffel Tower
This amazing photo, taken from an apartment window in 2010, surfaced this year and won the Office du Tourisme de Paris competition. "I quickly grabbed my camera and put it on a tripod by the window," said the 31-year-old photographer who caught the moment the Eiffel Tower appeared to be struck by lightning.
9. President Obama waves
President Obama waved himself into ridicule at the Open Government Partnership Event at the United Nations on September 20, 2011, in New York. During a group photograph of several world leaders, President Obama offered a solitary wave that accidentally covered the face of the president of Mongolia. Next time, just say "cheese."
10. Whale nearly swallows diver
This jaw-dropping image shows a diver almost being swallowed by a whale shark during a feeding frenzy (thankfully, only plankton was on the menu). The photo was taken in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, where more than 600 of the 40-foot creatures converged to feed on tuna spawn.
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Earthquakes PHILIPPINES Landslides Typhoons; FLOOD 12.29.12: now 6.7 Quake 81 Dead 2.6.12: Prophecyby HarvestArmy6,415 views
Lmao Obama covered the guys face haha
hbg4321 2 months ago
Its not a whale its a whale shark
jazaniac 2 months ago
@frankjaker a whale cant swallow a diver it has a filter in his neck which blocks anything bigger than plankton
RapingRapier 2 months ago
1:08 is scary
RayTeder 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Wow the last one was very, very scary
frankjaker 2 months ago
What beats the one-eyed Shark? What beats Romeo & Juliet making out in the middle of a crazy riot? What beats the giganormous croc captured by the Phillipinos? .... The pic of Obama telling the Mongolian President to "Talk to the hand" :-]
Monaco750Li 2 months ago
now I see them,,, How great year 2011 is'
tiffanycutieful 2 months ago