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Dinosaurs in Los Angeles

- by in Art, Oddities, Video

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 [...]

Would you want a glow-in-the-dark dog?

- by in Headline, Oddities

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 [...]

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Revenge…a dish best served with Old Bay Seasoning?

- by in Headline, Manifesto, Oddities, Sex

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 [...]

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Giant Wombat

- by in Headline, Oddities

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 [...]

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Rare Pink Hippo Leucism

Rare Pink Hippo Leucism

- by in Happenings, Headline, Oddities

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. [...]

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Have you ever seen a Zedonk?

Have you ever seen a Zedonk?

- by in Happenings, Oddities

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 [...]

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Grizzy Bear Carjacking and Shark Genital Cavity

Grizzy Bear Carjacking and Shark Genital Cavity

- by in Oddities, Popcorn

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 [...]

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