I was reading over at ABC news and came across this video, enjoy.
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Have their dead pets turned into gemstones at a minimum $1,400 a pop. #headdesk Reuters, by Jason McClure (Reuters) – Researchers studying Maine’s lobster population, booming in recent years amid warming waters and disappearing predators, have detected something never before seen in the wild: lobster cannibalism. It has long been known that lobsters will attack and eat each other if confined together in a small space — hence the [...] That’s adult male deer, not dollars: Deer season gave Rep. Paul Ryan the perfect father-daughter outing. Hunting in Oklahoma over the Thanksgiving holiday, success came to the Wisconsin lawmaker and his 10-year-old daughter, Liza, making her first solo trip into the woods. “Congressman Ryan was grateful to spend time with his family over [...] h/t Siun Genetically modified mosquitoes released by U.K. biotechnology start-up Oxitec Ltd. wiped out 80 percent of the bugs that carry dengue in a Cayman Islands study, according to a report today in the journal Nature Biotechnology. More than 3 million of the male mosquitoes, members of the Aedes aegypti species that carries dengue, were released in [...] Updating this post on West Nile Virus to add that the most common fatalities of the West Nile Virus will surprise you. (original post Sep 5) Staff at the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador say Lonesome George, a giant tortoise believed to be the last of its subspecies, has died. Scientists estimate he was about 100 years old. Park officials said they would carry out a post-mortem to determine the cause of his death. With no offspring and no known [...] A foot-long ringer for a wood louse, Bathynomus is a hulking crustacean with razor-sharp mandibles and eyes that catch the light like a cat’s. A few years ago, the species briefly became an Internet sensation when the technician of a remotely operated submarine posted online photographs of one specimen. At first the critter was [...] Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California have been found to have radioactive contamination from last year’s Fukushima nuclear accident. The fish would have picked up the pollution while swimming in Japanese waters, before then moving to the far side of the ocean. Scientists stress that the fish are still perfectly safe to [...] Fighting in the central African state has reached the national park where a dwindling population of primates lives One-quarter of the world’s entire mountain gorilla population is under threat from sustained fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Just over 800 gorillas remain in the world, with 210 living in the Virunga National Park, a [...] Hong Kong is getting a taste of the Ice Age, in the middle of the swanky IFC shopping mall. The main attraction is a 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth mummy. On loan from a Russian museum, researchers estimate she died when she was just one month old. Though pint-sized – only 150 centimetres tall – [...] Looking north from the catwalk on the 10th floor I came out of the elevator to see my giant neighbor (guy is about 6.5 270) staring north where upon he pointed and said ”œther’s dolphin.” As I had never seen them in the Intracoastal Waterway, I was skeptical. But there they were, at first I [...] The new strings play at a brilliant timbre that matches or exceeds the sound that can be produced from established materials such as steel, nylon and gut. A new kind of violin string woven from spider silk produces such a beautiful and spine-tingling sound that it could revolutionize the sound of music ”” and forever [...] A giant 27-pound lobster has been caught off the Maine coast ~ CSM(AP Photo/Maine State Aquarium) |
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