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Actually, Mesodinium chamaeleon is both. This single-celled organism definitely eats other creatures, which makes it an animal. But it also absorbs algae cells that can then give it extra energy through photosynthesis. So what on earth is this strange creature? More »
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Every polar bear alive today shares a common maternal ancestor, and it isn't even a bear from the same species. Their mitochondrial DNA reveals a 100,000 year story of interbreeding and hybridization...and the story is far from over. More »
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When a pair of freshwater fish species reproduce together, they create hybrids who are able to reproduce asexually. This ability should offer the hybrids an unstoppable evolutionary advantage...so why aren't we bowing down before our asexual fish hybrid masters? More »
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In 2009, swine flu created a minor pandemic, only killing about 15,000 people but infecting millions more. The avian flu H9N2 is ravaging bird populations throughout Asia. They're bad enough on their own...but what if they joined forces? More »
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What if a shark and a crocodile had babies? We suppose their spawn might look a little something like this art on display at the National Art Gallery in Roppongi. Next stop: Sharkodile, an original Syfy movie! [Tokyobling via Superpunch] More »
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It's a spoiler bonanza this morning. For one thing, a producer gave some hints about the sheer number of new robots you'll see in Transformers 2. There's also an early report on G.I. Joe that includes some pretty heavy-duty destruction. A leaked Battlestar Galactica call-sheet includes a couple of scenes between Admiral Adama and characters you wouldn't expect him to meet with. Doctor Who's producer spills the premise of the next Christmas special. Dollhouse script pages include a scary development in episode three. Oh yeah, and there are spoilers for indie movie Hybrid, plus Smallville, Lost, Heroes, and your favorite, Knight Rider. Get ahead of yourself, with spoilers. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5051573&view=rss&microfeed=true It was only a matter of time until the hybrid car got sick of being the answer to all of humanity's problems and lashed out in an uncontrollable Christine-style rage, killing a bunch unsuspecting greenies. Check out the first car-smashing pics from the movie Hybrid, the environmentally friendly car that snapped. [Ecranlarge] More »
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Is there room for a eco-friendly Christine remake? It looks like car horror is back, judging from the Cannes teaser poster for the thriller Hybrid, which leaked out today. There isn't much out there on this movie other than this brief description, "A female mechanic spends one night of terror trapped with a Hybrid car in a Chicago police garage." Eric Valette (One Missed Call) is set to direct and he's already cast Shannon Beckner. And Oded Fehr (face tattoos from The Mummy, Resident Evil: Apocalypse) is also attached to this project. If this movie does turn into a saga of machines turning against their makers, please let it be a Prius. And if so, I hope Al Gore goes to the premiere.[Bloody Disgusting] More »
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In a war-torn, forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union a battered laboratory stands, housing the remnants of twisted experiments. Some of the surviving tenants — part of an attempt by the insane veterinary doctor Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov to breed a slave race of ape/human hybrids — have escaped into the surrounding forest, their whereabouts unknown. We're not making this up; this is happening right now at the crumbling Research Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, a small nation-state on the Black Sea. More »
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If you're excited about Cloverfield and you enjoy boating, then maybe you'll like the forthcoming Hybrid. The scifi/horror film follows vacationing students on a sailing trip, who come across an abandoned trawler. But a mutant creature, created by pollution, is living on the trawler and "fishing" for humans in the open sea. Hybrid is based on a graphic novel that hasn't even come out yet, from a company that hasn't even started publishing. [Variety] More »
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