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more about #death Voyou_Charmant: Does anyone else have a problem with the use of the word "shaved"? Obviously the sloth didn't shave itself and I highly doubt anyone is shaving a slot... more » starfury5: Why did they have to pose it like some sort of otherworldly 'SI" swimsuit model? more » Wookie1972: Anyone else think of this? more » SeXX ED: There is such sadness in these images. Is it because the sloth seems so very human without his hair - or is it the fact that little children brutally ... more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I would check if that things got 4 arms. The first thing I thought when I saw this thing was Dark Crystal!!!! Bad picture but its the only one I could... more » VEXisGaY?: What kind of person would kill a shaved sloth? I would have took it back to my place, gave it some dinner, had intercourse with it and then killed it! more » Purple Dave: Oh, kids, don't hate on Gollum! Hate on Andy Serkis for doing that craptastic voice. more » Ariton: it doesn't even look like it had hair to begin with. It looks like it was waxed rather than shaved if it even had had hair to begin with, and who is ... more » MargaretMoony: Aw, fuck those kids. Also, what kind of sick bastard sits down and says, "Hey, I think I'm going to shave a sloth"? more » MissingPieces: I don't understand why we don't understand! DESTROY! DESTROY! DESTROY! It's a vicious cycle. more » SamhitaDampt: I used to shave sloths professionally, and this one really had the whole package. Really top-notch sloth-shaving. Try saying that 3 times fast. more » ejs2000: So that's where the baby from Eraserhead has been hiding! more » ♠ Final ♠: Sloth my ass. It was a Moleman. Albino, Hairless, living in a cave; Clearly a Moleman. You berate the child. Me, I say, "Bravo!" To you it was a ... more » ShubNecktie: *sigh* Kids today. In my day, we would have lured it into the house with Reese's Pieces and then dressed it up for Halloween. more » omgwtflolbbqbye: I'd hit it. more » stereobot: Have any of you ever shaved a sloth? It can't be easy, even if the thing does move slowly. I bet there is someone out there quite upset that his/her... more » captnkunuckles: Dude that can't be a sloth.. sloths have brown noses.. check out the pic in the link. Something weird IS going on here!! Run for the hills! But don't ... more » drjon: Alternately, a bunch of kids found a sloth which had drown and bloated, and from which the hair had rotted off in the water before washing up on the s... more » cadrina: a woman in china kills a snake with legs and children in panama kill a sloth because it was bald. Doesn't these children never watched disney movies? ... more » OliverOstrich: My thoughts exactly. Why was there a live shaved sloth chilling in the wild... we sure it was kids, or was something really f-ed up going on and "st... more » -
#gollum
Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
Strike first, ask questions later: that's what happened to this little white creature in Panama. A pack of children beat this mysterious creature to death, then tossed it into a river. Now we'll never know where the ring is. More » -
#evolution
"Death Stench" Is Universal Among Animals And Insects
Insects avoid their dead instinctively, repelled by a "death stench." Now scientists have discovered that nearly all animals emit the same stench when they die, and have been for over 400 million years. More » -
#triviagasm
Coital Coronaries and Sexecutions [NSFW]
Looking to do the deed with that hot alien, demon, or super-assassin, but not sure about the risks? We list scifi’s deadliest sexual encounters to ensure that your next orgasm won’t be your last. More » -
#design
Feeder for Zombie Birds Who Want to Eat Humans
When the Z-Wars get ugly, you'll want a bird feeder made of real human ashes to keep those zombie birds distracted. Luckily, one of U.K. designer Nadine Jarvis' recent projects is this teardrop-shaped bird feeder made of real bird feed and human ashes. It's part of a larger project she's doing on the post-mortem world. More » -
#horrorhead
Five Reasons to Watch Movies that Hurt You, Haunt You, and Make You Want to Vomit
Welcome back to Horrorhead, a column where we explore the intersection of horror and scifi. I wasn't born a horror movie fan, I made myself one through years of careful practice and studious watching. Everybody has an origin story, and mine begins with the pulsing, gooey strands of sludge that enveloped and destroyed every single point-of-view character in the 1970s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I was so young that I missed the political allegory about Nixon, and the joke about how Spock plays one of the pod people. I crunched down into the fake velvet movie theater seat, wondering if there was a way to worm out of the narrative but still make it through. My first discovery came then: If I plugged my ears, blocked out the heart-beating soundtrack, I could survive the alien invasion. More » -
