These pandas know the drill: act cute and people will fall for it.
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These mosquitoes wished they had Admiral Ackbar’s innate skills of warfare. You’re looking at these guys being taken down by a virtual Death Star (lasers!1!). Designed by Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures, this bad boy can track and destroy mosquitoes in mid-flight. Whether or not this thing will actually be used for its purpose to help reduce the spread of malaria in third-world countries is up for grabs. More than likely, all the fanboys will be buying these off eBay instead.
That’s no moon! It’s a fraking laser!
Super Snakes in Florida — now this already sounds like a really bad B movie. Forget about Snakes on a Plane or SyFy’s new add to the collection, Sea Snakes (Snakes on a Sub? seriouslywtf?). If these two monsters start breeding, there’ll be a whole new genre of snake movies ready to hit the latest straight to DVD release.
“…experts’ fears are mounting that the Burmese and African rock pythons will begin breeding–and give rise to a new, dangerous ‘super snake.’ “
Snakes at a Retirement Home will be the next big hit. “Get these mutherf*ckin’ snakes off my mutherf*ckin’ lawn!”
In our ongoing fascination with animals and their sex lives, a study published by Molecular Ecology has found that Alligators are almost completely monogamous (making them sort of like the Catholics of the reptile kingdom). This is surprising news since most reptiles tend to by polyamorous (so they’re more like the Mormons).
Finding mate fidelity in alligators is surprising because most reptiles are polygamous, often mating with multiple partners during the same breeding year and producing young from multiple fathers. Alligators do exhibit multiple paternity — in this study, roughly 50 percent of nests contained eggs from more than one father — but surprisingly, females appeared to pick the same male (or males) year after year.
Because of the dense population of alligators at the wildlife refuge, the researchers don’t think the repeat pairings were a result of chance. Instead, it appears that female alligators are actively choosing specific males that they’ve mated with in the past.
Maybe the alligators just want to save money on having to buy condoms.
This isn’t a photoshop image, although it looks like it could be. No, Mother Nature just got a little too smashed the other night. First she waved off the platypus as a hangover, but now this: a sea slug that’s part animal, part plant.
“Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica already has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and some genes from algae. Now it turns out that the slug has acquired enough stolen goods to make an entire plant chemical-making pathway work inside an animal body.”
Father Time, you better get control of your woman, or she’s going to end up rooming with Lohan in celebrity rehab.