Post by Zadkiel on Mar 24, 2016 13:20:32 GMT
A photo of some very weird looking daisies - taken by a Japanese Twitter-user - doesn't show the effects of nuclear radiation from the Fukushima reactor meltdown, as many media have reported. While the flowers look unusual, such mutations do occur pretty regularly in nature: It's a condition called fasciation and it's caused by hormonal imbalances, genetics, disease or environmental factors. As the biologist Beth Krizek told The Huffington Post: "People shouldn't freak out over this. Yeah, the flowers are weird, but nothing to tweet about!"
