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Turtles Are Not Pure Evil
Posted by ableiman on July 1, 2010 New YouTube research definitively proves that turtle society is highly altruistic and that Disney’s heretofore refusal to make a movie about them is racism, pure and simple.
Spectacular Deep Sea Squid Footage
Posted by ableiman on June 21, 2010 Stunning footage of deep-sea squids from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), where researchers use remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to observe and record deep-sea animal behaviors.
Animals Getting Along Spendidly
Posted by Benny Bleiman on March 25, 2009 Get out your Kleenex, wimps. Thanks, Berkery for forwarding this along.
This Shrew Holds His Long Nose Up When He Eats
Posted by ableiman on February 27, 2009 Lobster Magnet
Posted by ableiman on January 11, 2009 We are on a new Movable Type platform. You know what that means for you? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! …. maybe other than this. In celebration of the new, we offer the epically awesome old – Lobster Magnet I’m gonna classify this as “medicine and health” just for kicks.
Intriguing
Posted by ableiman on January 5, 2009 A little background here: Japanese squid monster moisturizer tentacle woman video. Yup.
Escaped Rhino Drill in Japan
Posted by ableiman on October 31, 2008 The Tokyo Zoo is prepared for anything. In this case, they foil the escape attempts of two employees in a giant paper maiche rhino outfit. (fyi – this video is in fact still available, just blow in it a few times if it gives you trouble) Via Arbroath via BoingBoing. From the YouTube comments and…
Elbow Deep in Whale Poop!
Posted by Benny Bleiman on August 11, 2008 Researchers at the New England Aquarium have stepped into a totally new method of studying Atlantic’s threatened population of right whales – collecting and analyzing floating feces to test the population’s health! I didn’t know whales ate corn! Right whales got their name because they were the “right” whale to catch during whaling’s hey day,…
Mysterious New Insect Bumfuzzles Brits
Posted by Benny Bleiman on July 17, 2008 Brits of all shapes and sizes have been spitting out mouth fulls of tea and shepherd’s pie at the announcement that a strange unidentified insect seems to be running rampant across England, including London. The black and red bug resembles the Arocatus roeselii, a rare central European insect, only Britain’s bugs are significantly duller in…
StickyBot and Directional Adhesion
Posted by ableiman on July 7, 2008 StickyBot is a robot designed by researchers at Stanford Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab as part of the Robots in Scansorial Environments project (RiSE). The robotic gecko tests their hypotheses about the “requirements for mobility on vertical surfaces using dry adhesion. The main point is that we don’t need more adhesion, we need controllable adhesion.”…