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more about #zoology more comments → jenrobe: Ooh, I've spent the last week hunting down whale fall footage. I guess a seal will do in a pinch. more » FrankenPC: VERY trippy! Could that nemotode be a relative of this? [www.imdb.com] more » LittleDragon: Do not laugh when the herse goes by for you may be the next to die They wrap you up in a big black sheet And drop you down about six feet All goes wel... more » Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: The starfishes WALK! more » Hamslicer: My scalp feels suddenly, itchy. more » ManchuCandidate: I'm feeling suddenly peckish for sea food tonight. more » Jesse Astle: lol, Navy Seals. But seriously, I'm not all that sure about the morality of using seals in the military. Dogs and horses are, in essence, bred by hu... more » sharkish: Guys, they taught these sea lions how to cuff enemy divers! With leg cuffs! I need to get me a sea lion army... more » king_saberhawk: It wont be long before we sea our sea animal friends engaged in combat Red Alert style more » collex: Why am I thinking of the addicted dolphin veteran in Johnny Mnemonic (the short story)? more » brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(: Does the Navy fire the seals or sea lions if they find out they are gay? more » Dayburner: Come on everyone knows it's the sea otters that pose the biggest threat. more » closeencounter: This is not much different from intelligent dogs doing bomb sniffer work, or attack dogs for the police or military. I can't say whether the sea lions... more » Tooths: One oil spill. That's all it'd take to defeat America's sea lion army. more » grimdeath9740: I keep visualizing the dolphins in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou :P more » -
#monstersamongus
Deadly Worms and Ravenous Sea Stars Engage in a Monster Feeding Frenzy
It's a once in a decade occurrence: a bounty of meat falls to Antarctica's ocean floor, prompting it voracious inhabitants to descend in a frenzy of flesh-skewering sea worms, pulsating sea stars, and giant underwater spiders. More » -
#navysealions
Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers
Dolphins aren't the only aquatic mammals fighting human battles. The US Navy has long been training sea lions as equipment retrievers and underwater sentries. Now they plan to outfit a naval base with mine-sweeping, diver-trapping sea lions. More » -
#monstersamongus
Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
Researchers have found a bizarre fish floating off the coast of Brazil: a creature six feet in length with no scales, little muscle mass, and a largely gelatinous body. More » -
#monstersamongus
Another Frog With Fangs Is Discovered In Southeast Asia
Just weeks after discovering a frog with fangs in Papua New Guinea, the World Wildlife Federation is reporting another 163 new species in southeast Asia, including another frog with fangs. This new frog, discovered in Thailand, apparently feeds on birds. More » -
#thehumananimal
Studying the Human Animal from a Zoological Perspective [NSFW]
In 1994, the BBC aired a documentary titled The Human Animal, which examines human beings in the way a nature documentary would look at any animal, using zoological language and techniques to study and describe human anatomy and behavior. More » -
#monstersamongus
Rib-Popping Newt is the Amphibious Answer to Wolverine
The Spanish ribbed newt has an unusual method of protecting itself: when presented with an attacker, the newt can pierce its own skin with its rib bones, allowing it to stab a predator and deliver a dose of deadly poison. More » -
#zoology
What's Black And White And Red All Over? Not THIS Penguin!
A penguin in the UK molted all of his feathers at once, which left his pale skin exposed to possible sunburn. But his keepers decided he shouldn't be the butt of a joke and made him a tiny wetsuit. More » -
#madscience
Ornithologists Estimate That Highly Reflective Windows Kill 1-5% Of Migrating Birds
We've all laughed at the classic cartoon gag where a bird flies headfirst into a window. Turns out this phenomenon isn't just a joke, it's deadly among migratory birds in Philadelphia, killing an estimated 1-5% of the migrating population. More » -
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#swimmingplants
Single-Cell Algae Can Swim In Two Different "Gears"
A form of algae, called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, has a very complicated way of swimming. A new study published in Nature magazine explains how individual algae cells can control their motion using tiny little flagella operating in two different "gears." More » -
#madscience
The Mysterious Lizards Who Swim In Sand
When the tiny lizard known as the sandfish moves through sand, it literally dives under the surface of the ground as if swimming. Now physicists have figured out how they do it - and want to build sandfish robots. More » -
#megafauna
Giant Manta Rays Are The Cylon Raiders Of The Deep
BoingBoing points out the similarities between cylon ships and these giant manta rays featured in the latest National Geographic magazine. These 2,000-pound creatures are on a krill feeding frenzy. More pictures via NatGeo, thanks to Marilyn Terrell! -
#evolution
Shrinking Sheep Shocker
Scottish sheep are shrinking! Each new generation of sheep on the Scottish island of Hirta are smaller than the last. Shorter, warmer winters, caused by climate change, are tampering with normal sheep evolution. More » -
#monstersamongus
Giant Jellyfish Swarms Off The Coast Of Japan
Just when you thought it was safe. Overfishing and human activities have led to jellyfish growth all over the world. And not just in population; this jellyfish, found off of the coast of Japan, is almost 5 feet across. More » -
#madzoology
Surveillance Cameras Capture the Elusive, Endangered Saharan Cheetah
Using motion-triggered cameras developed for surveillance, a team of researchers in Algeria has captured the first photographs of a nearly-legendary variety of cheetah, believed to be one of only 250 Saharan cheetahs left on Earth. More » -
#scienceart
A Rare Collection of Victorian Glass Microbes
This gorgeous glass sculpture of an Actinophryid, an ocean microorganism, is over 100 years old. It's one the few surviving scientific models of tiny, swimming creatures created by a father-son team of glassmakers. More » -
#jellyfish
The Jellyfish Are Coming
They are gelatinous, pulsating, tentacled, and sometimes deadly. And they seem to be appearing in ever-increasing swarms across the oceans of the world.
