• more about #rats
    0kami: Uh....um...okay I'm just going to come out and say it, that picture sort of looks like an anus. more »
    LittleDragon: I really hope that this will someday work. If Terry Pratchett's treatment doesn't work, rat brains may be Discworld's only hope. And how did that spa... more »
    burlybax: This sounds safer than what they were trying in Deep Blue Sea. more »
    Roklimber: That picture looks like the inside of a coconut. more »
    Anekanta - Go Play!: Yeah, but where are we going to get the transgenic newborns to regenerate human brain tissue? more »
    tetracycloide: i'm no nurologist but isn't there a rather large degree of difference between actual alzheimers and 'an alzheimers like state?' i guess what i'm aski... more »
    Ghost_in_the_Machine: So Walter Bishop's brain can be fixed? more »
    ManchuCandidate: Pinky: Gee, Brain. What are we going to do tonight? The Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take, er, I like Cheese... more »
    ziffelbat: Goddamnit! Where are the fangs on that frog? So much for scaring the nephew to bed with threats of killer vampire frogs. Now the little shit wont go... more »
    wanion: Wait a minute, that's the frog from National Geographic! I call flim-flam! more »
    Ferocious Ferret: Damn nature, you scary! more »
    OperationTophat: "Rodents of Unusal Size? I don't think they exist..." Raulph! *attacked by this* more »
    Invisible-Echidna: I wish they posted pictures of them all. more »
    mekki: I am glad I am not the only one who immediately thought, "Rodents of Unusual Size!" when they saw that rat. I've watched that movie way too many tim... more »
    LittleDragon: WOW those fruit doves and king bird of paradise are beautiful. I don't understand the rat hate. Sure they are not as cute as a puppy but they aren't t... more »
    joetato: Master Splinter! You're alive!!!! Totally radical! :-D more »
    rotwang: The first of a 3-part documentary series about this expedition aired on BBC1 last night, and it was absolutely amazing. Throughout most of it I think ... more »
    Smeagol92055: Ah, yes. To seek out strange new life, and then fuck up their ecosystem by interacting with it. Truly, a noble goal. more »
    NerD: Blattella: I need to see something to scale the rat. This just looks like a close up. more »
    Adah: Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist. Though, if they did, they would certainly be found in a fire swamp, not an inactive volcano. more »
  • #madscience

    Transplanted Rat Brains Could Beat Alzheimer's

    Transplanting small numbers of nerve cells directly into the brain has restored the learning ability of brain-damaged rats — and might be able to defeat the memory loss of Alzheimer's disease. More »
  • #monstersamongus

    Rodents of Unusual Size Found in Volcanic Lost World

    For 200,000 years, life has flourished deep inside the crater of Mount Bosavi in complete isolation. Now a team of scientists has found it teeming with hairy caterpillars, fanged frogs, and the largest rats ever recorded. More »
  • #biotechanimals

    Year of the Ratbot