/ 22 February 2023

It ain’t cheesy being a vegetarian on MasterChef, a fish tornado in the NT outback, and a fish with hands…

Image source: Canva
Image source: Canva

Things can only get feta for the judges on MasterChef India after they found themselves at the centre of a social media storm after allowing a vego contestant to use paneer cheese instead of salmon. It ain’t easy being cheesy…

The words ‘unusual’, ‘weather’ and ‘event’ have been thrown around a lot recently, but the remote outback town of Lajamanu in the Northern Territory takes the… fish? Experts say tornadoes whipped small fish out of rivers in a recent storm, causing them to fall on the town from the sky. The Weather Girls’ iconic song might need an update…

And if raining fish wasn’t enough, a photographer captured photos of a rare Aussie fish that can be seen ‘walking’ underwater on its ‘hands’. The critically endangered spotted handfish in Tassie’s Derwent River has pectoral fins that look like hands, and now we’ve officially heard it all…

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