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    Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers

    Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil

    Another Frog With Fangs Is Discovered In Southeast Asia

    Studying the Human Animal from a Zoological Perspective [NSFW]

    Rib-Popping Newt is the Amphibious Answer to Wolverine

    What's Black And White And Red All Over? Not THIS Penguin!

    Ornithologists Estimate That Highly Reflective Windows Kill 1-5% Of Migrating Birds

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    The Mysterious Lizards Who Swim In Sand

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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/25/09

    In reply to Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers
    So the goal is to have them perform sea-tizen arrests?
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/25/09

    @Roklimber: AR AR AR! *Slaps flippers together*
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/25/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Calm down. Don't be so seal-ly.
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/25/09

    This has my seal of approval.
    (I'd be lion, if I said it didn't)
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    Edited by SJ_Edwards at 11/25/09 7:43 PM SJ_Edwards was starred SJ_Edwards was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/25/09

    @SJ_Edwards:

    Thank you. I'm happy you didn't con-seal your approval.
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    11/25/09

    In reply to Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers
    how long will it be before the sea lions team up with the dolphins and use all that military training to overthrow their human masters?

    Hopefully not too long. Humanity's power trip is getting a little old.

    Or hey, maybe one day technologically superior aliens will come down and train humans to dangerous jobs for them, so we can see what it's like.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    11/25/09

    @Anekanta - former space marine: sounds possible .
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    11/25/09

    @disatess: It may be, I'm not sure.

    It reminds me of H.G. Wells' famous critique of European Colonialism in War of the Worlds.

    But really I'm just expressing a little rage on behalf of the natural world.

    Still, I think I'd laugh loudly and ironically if I saw footage of angry sea lions brandishing stolen M16's while rampaging through a naval base on the nightly news...
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    Image of disatess disatess
    11/25/09

    @Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon: I understand As I said earlier ,keep the conflict between us humans .
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    Image of greenie31001 greenie31001
    12:34 AM

    @Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon:
    Um, the Navy already does that, too...

    What's that? They're volunteers? You don't remember the draft...
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/25/09

    In reply to Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers
    I, for one, would welcome are new Cetacean and Pinniped overlords.

    Seriously though, this is super cute - I hope they give them ranks and teach them to salute.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/25/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: +1
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/25/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: I think it would be much cuter watching everyone lower than the sea lions saluting them.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/25/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: I know this is srs bizness, but if they don't teach the sea lions to salute, it is such a waste.
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    Image of sharkish sharkish
    11/25/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Can someone photoshop this into existence until we get the real thing, please?
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    Image of Brisco_County_Jr Brisco_County_Jr
    09/29/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    What else can we be reminded of with that body and those eyes?
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/28/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    THE ABYSS?
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    Image of Daumier Daumier
    09/28/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    Huh, the picture you have here is just the jellynose larva according to the article. For a second you had me thinking of a six foot version of that. I'm actually kind of relieved to see that it's just a big ugly, slimy, awkward-looking fish. It's still pretty gross, but at least it isn't the swimming translucent globe-eyed jello sperm from my nightmares.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    09/28/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    They found Marlon Brando?!?
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    09/28/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    piscis eraserheadicus!

    #@!
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    Image of Stanford Chiou Stanford Chiou
    09/28/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    a creature six feet in length with no scales, little muscle mass

    David Tennant?
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    Image of dethklokso dethklokso
    09/28/09

    @Stanford Chiou: Brilliant!
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    Image of SuperTuna SuperTuna
    09/28/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    And thus - "It's a trap!" was born :D
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    Image of hamshank hamshank
    09/28/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    that picture seems to have a scale on the bottom right that suggests we're looking at a Jellynose around, oh, 15mm long ... am I right?
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    09/28/09

    @hamshank: Do you -want- it to be bigger?
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    Image of hamshank hamshank
    09/28/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: good point, and very well put.
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    Image of rotwang rotwang
    09/28/09

    @hamshank: Yep, that's a larva. Bit misleading there, Lauren. I mean I actually thought that was a pic of the six-foot creature right there, until I clicked through to the National Geographic site. Oh, and can I just say that I, for one, welcome...never mind.
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    Image of pockifish pockifish
    09/28/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    this is the most adorable little creature I've seen since... well it beats the naked sloth alien at least.

    Mommy, can I take him home?
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    09/29/09

    @pockifish: No you can't, you can only have a fish with a parasite friend for a tongue.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/28/09

    In reply to Giant Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil
    Was it beaten to death by children?
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    09/28/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: Scuba-kids were busy beating that penis head shark to death
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    09/26/09

    In reply to Another Frog With Fangs Is Discovered In Southeast Asia
    Next show on Frog TV: "TrueFrog", the story of vampire frogs who live in the swamps of Thailand...
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    Image of Stephen Goldmeier Stephen Goldmeier
    10/02/09

    @Roklimber: ...and their seedy romantic trysts? i detect a "princess and the frog" marketing opportunity as well...
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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    09/25/09

    In reply to Another Frog With Fangs Is Discovered In Southeast Asia
    Fangs you say?!? Looks like this is the first frog with molars.
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