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dr. dolittle | August 4, 2015I came across this highly entertaining video of the "Top 10 Extreme Forms of Life" on YouTube:
dr. dolittle | May 5, 2015Professor Wayne Vogl and colleagues at the University of British Columbia discovered that rorqual whales can gulp volumes of water that are bigger than their body. Nerves in the mouth and tongue make this amazing feat possible as they can actually stretch to twice their resting length without sustaining damage. Dr. Vogl was quote in CBC News saying, "The nerves that supply these remarkably expandable tissues in the floor of the mouth of rorqual whales ... are very stretchy, they're like bungee cords." This is unusual as the nerves of most vertebrate species have fixed lengths.
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sciencepunk | June 28, 2011Following on from last week's discovery of water that can freeze at room temperature, here's another trick. Water at minus 130 degrees Celsius can flow like a thick fluid. The work carried out by Ove Andersson, a physicist at Umeå University, showed that by increasing pressure to 10,000 times the norm, ice could be coaxed into a viscous liquid state 30% denser than normal water. The findings lend support to the theory that water has two liquid phases, one at much higher density than the other. I'd imagine it also means liquid water is likely to exist even on frozen planets.
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zooillogix | October 29, 2009Straight from Katie and Andrew's closets we bring you this Mountain Dew-soaked photographic essay.
An explosive herbivore bursts forth from your chest
So many, many more below the fold...
Oh my sternum? Yes, it's real bear
Spirit of the Casino
A rare candid glimpse into pre-Columbian North America
We count four offensive things in this shirt. How many can you find?
Seizure inducing dolphins
T-Rexes fight on the moon