Organisms
pharyngula | January 21, 2012Now that the door is opened to contemplating rotating cats, I think we should look at organisms that are even better at the spinning routine.
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pharyngula | January 16, 2012It's easy. You're one of us if every time you hear the tune, "It's a long way to Tipperary", you hear the lyrics as, "It's a long way from…"
Now you have to sing the rest of the chorus.
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pharyngula | January 13, 2012Look at this: no originality at all. The wanna-bes and poseurs all have to dress up in their idol's fashions, even if it is cross-phylum dressing.
(via NatGeo)
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pharyngula | January 9, 2012Mary was pretty insistent that I had to show you this video — it's what the Monday Metazoan is all about. You might also want to see the higher quality video at NatGeo.
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pharyngula | January 9, 2012Could be trouble: the other apes are learning how to make fire, and you know where that ended up with us.
(via sci-ence)
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pharyngula | December 31, 2011Review the unpleasant nature of the cat's penis. Now contemplate this: "12 feet long and highly mobile" and "gigantic testes that weigh a ton".
Although, I do confess, when a pod of these big boys go into rut in your back yard, you'll probably get even less sleep than when the neighborhood cats are in heat.
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pharyngula | December 30, 2011Weep for the poor creatures.
But note the steely glint of vengeance in the eye of their living compatriots.
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pharyngula | December 23, 2011
(via Aquaviews)
One of the bonuses of having lots of legs is that you can go bipedal whenever you feel like it.
(via TONMO)
A fun suggestion: do a google image search for "Wonderpus". Be prepared to go blind.
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pharyngula | December 22, 2011Usually, first thing in the morning, I'm feeding you some fresh new outrage or foolishness. How about something to awe and inspire for once? Here, watch the gorillas, and think about your place in the universe.
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pharyngula | December 21, 2011How appropriate that one of the symbols of the season should be a parasite.
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pharyngula | December 20, 2011Look with your puny camera eyes! Some new specimens of Anomalocaris, the spectacular Cambrian predator, have been discovered in South Australia. These fossils exhibit well-preserved eyes, allowing us to see that the bulbous stalked balls on their heads were actually fairly typical compound eyes, like those of modern insects.
Anomalocaris eyes from the Emu Bay Shale. a-d, Eye pair, SAM P45920a, level 10.4 m. a, b, Overview and camera lucida drawing. Scale bars, 5 mm. Grey fill in b represents visual surface, the proximal part in the upper eye extrapolated from the lower eye. c, Detail of…
pharyngula | December 17, 2011Usually, I try to accentuate the positive and tell you why other animals are so much more interesting than cats, but today I'm going right for the gutter and showing you why cats are evil. Behold, the cat penis:
You know who else has a penis like that? Satan.
Now you have another reason to get your cats neutered — so they don't ever use that nightmarish thing.
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