nature
Damn, That's a Tiny Chameleon
Adrian Chen · 02/17/12 10:38AMThis Is Why Pythons Have Eaten All of the Animals in the Everglades
Adrian Chen · 01/31/12 01:26PMNorth Korean State News Says Even Nature Is Mourning For Kim Jong-il
Adrian Chen · 12/22/11 10:46AMGovernment: Please Do Not Reveal the Secrets of That Killer Flu Virus You Invented
Maureen O'Connor · 12/20/11 07:15PM'Elvis Monkey' Has a Michael Jackson Nose
Maureen O'Connor · 12/12/11 02:27PMGreat strides in the field of anthropomorphically amusing animals: Among 208 new species discovered in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia is an "Elvis monkey" that "looks like it wears a pompadour." The Elvis monkey has no nose (Michael Jackson monkey?) and lives in the Himalayan forests of Myanmar, a World Wildlife Fund report explains:
Don't Freak Out About Tonight's Enormous, Blood-Red Moon
Max Read · 12/09/11 11:43AMSo, if you wake up early tomorrow morning and the moon looks, like, enormous? And is blood red? Don't worry! It's not because the elder gods have returned to exact their brutal form of justice upon humankind.
Coca-Cola Basically Owns the Grand Canyon
Adrian Chen · 11/10/11 10:16AMWatch a Penguin Turn to a Life of Crime
Matt Cherette · 10/18/11 03:21AMNext week, the BBC will debut a series about animal life in the Arctic and Antarctic called Frozen Planet. In this preview clip, male members of an Adelie penguin colony in Antarctica gather stones to build nests while competing for lady penguins in the process. But as you'll see, not all of them do it honestly.
Brooklyn's Famed Vagina Tree Felled by Irene
Seth Abramovitch · 09/01/11 12:53AM'Mount John Denver' Plan Is Probably Illegal, Thankfully
Jeff Neumann · 08/09/11 04:27AMLook, I'm don't want to disparage John Denver, but does the man really need a mountain named after him? That's one college professor's plan. J.P. McDaniel gathered some 2,300 signatures to rename the eastern peak of Mt. Sopris after the folksy John Denver, but now it turns out that might violate the Wilderness Act of 1964. More from the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel:
Krazy Fish Only Ate Kit Kats!
Hamilton Nolan · 08/02/11 08:07AMYou think the world is a boring and cruel place and then one day you wake up on an absolutely normal morning and you look on the internet and there is a story about a Gourami fish who was living on a diet of nothing but chocolate. A fish named Gary! Why isn't Gary eating his grapes at the aquarium like a normal Gourami?
Stupidest Shark Ever Leaps Onto Boat
Max Read · 07/19/11 11:24PMFather and Son Killed By Lightning, 48 Years Apart
Seth Abramovitch · 07/14/11 01:20AMA 54-year-old man from New Jersey was electrocuted to death on Sunday after lightning struck the tree next to which he was standing. The last thing Stephen Rooney told his family before he wandered away from a barbecue to smoke a cigar, MSNBC reports, was, "Don't worry guys, lightning never strikes twice." He was referring to an incident from 48 years earlier, when Rooney's father was killed by a bolt of lightning while fishing. So what can we learn from this tragedy? That lightning doesn't care about truisms! It's lightning. It strikes wherever it wants to strike. [MSNBC]
Man Killed By Grizzly Bear at Yellowstone
Seth Abramovitch · 07/06/11 11:56PMBeware Hogweed: The Blistering, Blinding, Backyard Pest
Seth Abramovitch · 07/06/11 03:22AMMutant Bunny from Fukushima Freaks Everyone Out, Adorably
Maureen O'Connor · 06/09/11 11:56AMVideo of a mutant bunny born near Japan's quake-ravaged Fukushima power plant has gone viral. The bunny, which was born without ears, might be evidence of radioactive contamination, which may someday render the entire population of Japan microtic-anotic! Unless, of course, it's just a random birth defect. Every credible scientist in the world is leaning strongly toward the latter. Crazy people, however, are leaning toward the former, so the mutant bunny will probably be on the evening news tonight.