The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has all sorts of new stuff in the new Dinosaur Hall. I used to love the dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as a kid, so I’m very excited to check out this new exhibit. Their Tyrannosaurus Rex was incredible. I assume [...]
Some medical research mad scientists in Korea recently announced that they had genetically modified a dog to glow in the dark. The beagle Tegon’s special ability is not an always thing. Tegon has to be fed doxycycline in order to glow. I don’t know about beagles, but I’ve had to take doxy antibiotics before and [...]
Recently, while traipsing around the web with malice in my heart, I stumbled across a biological weapon of righteous vengeance. Something that struck fear in the deepest darkest recesses of my consciousness…a veritable doomsday device that is both terrible and awesome to behold; Super Crabs. (This product is apparently real. Someone please order this and [...]
Scientists in Queensland, Australia just discovered the first complete skeleton of diprotodon. Diprotodon is believed to have been much like a giant wombat, as you can see in this artist’s reconstruction from the Australian Museum, photographed by James King. For some reason, I had vaguely thought that wombats were rodents, but they are actually marsupials [...]
Check out the National Geographic gallery of this rare pink hippo. Apparently having leucism is actually a sort of technically more extreme form of being an albino model, but it tends to manifest as a more mild condition. Albinism means lacking melanin in the skin, while leucism means the skin produces less of all pigments. [...]
Katherine Dorsett at CNN reported today that the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve, in Bumfuck Dahlonega, Georgia, now features a zedonk. Preserve founder C.W. Wathen says he keeps his donkeys with his zebras because donkeys are extremely calm and they help the zebras chill and not run through fences. Apparently Sarah the Donkey does a little more [...]
Darth Vader took the bank bailout money and a joyriding grizzly bear ran that car into a tree. Also Discovery reports that sharks have antibiotic-resistant bacteria on them. This has been a really special news week. We already covered Darth Vader getting away with bank robbery (the Sith Lord is still at large with no [...]