Howling Poop Bomb
Caught this howler in the act of pooping (right at 6 seconds) down somewhere on the coast of Nicaragua last week.
shark-bitten crocodile poop fossils
Paleontologists have stumbled across a scientific first that’s sure to inspire both fascination and disgust: coprolites, or fossilized fecal matter, bearing the distinct impressions of a creature’s teeth.
The coprolites — one chunk of rock is fist-sized, the other is about 30 percent larger — were discovered on a beach along the western shore of Chesapeake Bay, says Stephen Godfrey, a paleontologist at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Md.
You’re welcome.
from the comments
This year, instead of making my traditional stigmata cookies for Easter, my cookies will depict a cross section of a rabbit’s ovaries, complete with chocolate egg fetuses.
Dogs as Typefaces
I feel like the combination of these two things constitute a perfect storm for Deron and Amy.
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It became a game to find the worm in my foot each morning.
we were just gaga over it
NASA finds life beneath an antarctic ice-shelf.
Six hundred feet below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.
That’s why a NASA team was surprised when they lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica. A curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then parked itself on the camera’s cable. Scientists also pulled up a tentacle they believe came from a foot-long jellyfish.
half cock
Unlike mammals, it’s not hormones that dictate a chicken’s sex. It’s a fundamental property of the cells themselves. But this only became apparent when biologists investigated several odd chickens that were half male and half female, as if a line were drawn down the center of their bodies.
Black Penguin
King Penguins are notorious for their prim, tuxedoed appearance — but a recently discovered all-black penguin seems unafraid to defy convention. In what has been described as a “one in a zillion kind of mutation,” biologists say that the animal has lost control of its pigmentation, an occurrence that is extremely rare. Other than the penguin’s monochromatic outfit, the animal appears to be perfectly healthy — and then some. “Look at the size of those legs,” said one scientist, “It’s an absolute monster.”
Message from Midway Atoll
Taken on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. To see more of the series click the photo or follow this link.
bible ignored, trainer dies
Chalk another death up to animal rights insanity and to the ongoing failure of the West to take counsel on practical matters from the Scripture.
all her idea
She started it.
asteroid v. volcanco
A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years’ worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction, which created a “hellish environment” around 65 million years ago and wiped out more than half of all species on the planet.
Scientific opinion was split over whether the extinction was caused by an asteroid or by volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps in what is now India, where there were a series of super volcanic eruptions that lasted around 1.5 million years.
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It was the asteroid.
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Our results raise the possibility that spontaneous string pulling in New Caledonian crows may not be based on insight but on operant conditioning mediated by a perceptual-motor feedback cycle.
Matteo Cibic’s Hi-Fido
Matteo Cibic’s Hi-Fido is a ceramic speaker in the shape of a dog.
the origin of tiny dogs
Melissa Gray, a genetic researcher, has tracked the mutation of a gene in dogs — IGF1 — that controls for size, and is not seen in gray wolf populations (from which dogs were domesticated) to the Middle East where, 13,000 years ago, blah, blah, blah…. Whatever, I mostly just wanted to post the photo.
Amy said
This is someone’s version of hell. Michael Bublé and inflatable beavers.
out out damn cow
Four days after cows broke into her home, a woman in Murfreesboro, Ark., says she’s still in shock.
from the comments
Lucy:
I think those people wanted to go to bed together and have stilted, regretful sex with Greatest Wagner Arias playing in the background on a poor quality mini HiFi system, surrounded by pictures of their relatives in freemasonry costumes (they themselves would be wearing chicken outfits without quite understanding why). Perhaps they will, now that they are emailing privately.
reptiles of concern
Next month is Python hunting season in Florida.
The special season, created by executive order, will allow anyone with a hunting license and a $26 management area permit to take reptiles of concern — including Indian python; reticulated python; northern and southern African rock python; amethystine or scrub python; green anaconda; and Nile monitor lizard. Hunters may use rifles, pistols or shotguns, but no centerfire rifles. They may not bring reptiles out alive and must report all they kill to the FWC within 36 hours.
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Amy said
You got teats on your dick so really I don’t understand your whole dog system.
Work
During my ninth hour of being on my feet today I thought, “My dogs are killing me,” but they weren’t. They were peeing on the slide.
Cock Thief
A 42-year-old Collinsville man was arrested last weekend after neighbors complained to police he had stolen roosters and was fighting them on his property.
But I think I understand why you thought what you thought.
Amy said
You’re a douche bag if you watch YouTube on a horse.
from the sacramento valley
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