Cheryl Eddy

Baby Aardvark Is the Ultimate Embodiment of “Ugly-Cute”

Days before Christmas, one of the Colchester Zoo‘s resident aardvarks, Oq, gave birth. Have you ever seen anything so incredibly, amazingly, simultaneously ugly and cute? The infant, showcased in photos released this week, is part of the UK’s most successful aardvark breeding group. It will be fully-grown (and way hairier) within a year. For now…

The Elvis Presley Conspiracy Theory That Just Won’t Die

As we gather ’round a mound of fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, Royal Crown Pomade, sequins, and Col. Tom Parker voodoo dolls in honor of Elvis’ 80th birthday, now’s the perfect moment to revisit the most enduring conspiracy theory that (hound) dogs the King’s legacy. You know it: ELVIS IS ALIVE! The no-longer-in-print Weekly…

We’re Dying To Visit This Weird New Museum of Curiosities

Seriously, any museum with a “Cabinet of Death” display is something you don’t want to sleep on. The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities in London displays the entire collection of the proudly eccentric Mr. Wynd, and it’s full of weird and wonderful things (mostly weird though). Co.Design offers just a taste of what’s in store…

The Terrifying Resilience Of Fast Food That Refuses To Decompose

The “food” you see pictured here is nearly two years old. As Business Insider reports, A Michigan chiropractor has been saving a Taco Bell chicken taco and McDonald’s cheeseburger with fries for two years, and none of the items have appeared to rot. Dr. Jacqueline Vaughn purchased the meals in early 2013 and put them…

Two Men Become Robots, Cats, and Each Other In This “Face Hacking” Vid

Remember when the apex of what computers could do to morph faces was represented in Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” music video? Yeah, things have changed, and with jaw-dropping results. In Face Hacking, a stunning meld of real-time face tracking and 3D animation, artist Nobumichi Asai creates incredible illusions using living faces. The two men…

We Now Know Why Disco Clams Are So Freaking Flashy

The memorably-named Disco Clam is back in the news, and biologists may have figured out why this unique (and until-now mysterious) coral reef dweller emits flashes of light. As National Geographic reports, UC Berkeley grad student Lindsey Dougherty — who previously deduced that the flashes are caused not by bioluminescene, but by “reflecting light through…

So, What Was Inside Paul Revere’s Time Capsule?

The “oldest time capsule in the US,” buried in the cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, has been opened and its contents revealed. The haul, stashed in 1795, contained “silver and copper coins dating from 1652 to 1855, a silver plaque, a copper medal depicting George Washington, newspapers, a…

The 9 Greatest Monsters in North America

Frankly, we’re a little weary of Bigfoot and Nessie. What about those mysterious critters that don’t have dedicated reality shows … but are still integral, beloved, and/or feared parts of the communities in which they’re said to dwell? Here are 9 wonderfully weird, staunchly local cryptozoological creatures. 1. Bear Lake Monster, Idaho-Utah border This big…

Visit This Neglected Medieval Cemetery for the “Outcast Dead”

London’s Cross Bones Graveyard dates back to the medieval era, and is the final resting place for some 15,000 paupers, prostitutes, and other “outcasts,” including children and infants. Despite a colorfully decorated gate, the run-down lot hasn’t been accessible to the public. That’s about to change. There’s been a recent approval of plans to install…

Of Course There’s A Mash-Up Trailer For Jurassic Parks and Recreation

And yeah, it’s a hoot. We only have one question: What took the mash-up wizards of the internets so long? Via Bloody Disgusting. Image via Variety.

This Notorious Killer Got Even Creepier After She Went to Prison

Convicted child killer Myra Hindley was dubbed “the most evil woman in Britain.” Now a stack of recently-discovered jailhouse letters reveal that she became a raging Valium addict in her later years, making weirder and weirder demands of the government. Hindley, half of the notorious “Moors Murders” couple (Hindley and former boyfriend Ian Brady killed…

Punk’s not dead: Scientists have named a particularly spiky-looking snail after late Clash rocker (and environmentalist) Joe Strummer. Alviniconcha strummeri “lives in clusters around deep-sea hydrothermal vents” and its shell “is a myriad of colors due to chemicals found around the vents, and sometimes features Mohawk-like spikes.”

An Otherworldly Village Made Entirely from Ice Sculptures

In the city of Harbin, China’s 31st International Ice and Snow Festival has begun. This is one of the world’s largest such events, and always brings some psychedelic wonderment to the bitterly cold city. Here are some photos as the fest gets underway. As CNN reports, the festival’s multiple themed areas sprawl across some 750,000…

In Shocking Twist, Alien Abductee Artist Not Really An Alien Abductee

Though British artist Lloyd Canning got media attention for claiming to be an alien abductee — he told the Daily Mirror that he’d had six close encounters, and was receiving “visions”from extraterrestrials that inspired his paintings — he later took to his Facebook page to confess the truth: for anyone who have seen my story…

Man Sentenced To Jail For Eating Tigers, Because Tigers

Dude, no. Guzzle all the Doritos-Flavored Mountain Dew you want, but in the name of all that is holy, keep your fork away from tiger meat, unlike a certain Chinese man (identified only as “Xu”) who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for buying and eating the endangered species three different times. (Could it…

Watch These Simple Vector Graphics Utterly Transform a Modern Dance

Marvel at these excerpts from Pixel, a modern dance performance that looks like it’s taking place inside the computers of Tron. It’s so simple, and yet it’s utterly captivating. Artistic director and choreographer Mourad Merzouki says this is his “work on illusion combining energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, hip hop and circus.” The…

Excuse Me, Sir, But You Have A Rather Large Knife In Your Skull

YOWCH! A Brazilian taxi driver survived being stabbed in the head … and roamed around with the knife wedged into his melon for over three hours. As you can see from the X-rays, we’re not talking about a little poke from a Swiss Army knife. That’s practically Excalibur up in there! Incredibly, CNN reports, Juacelo…

This Clothing Store Features an 18th Century Haunted Well

A New York City outpost of clothing store COS has a 200-year-old well tucked into its men’s department. The structure is a remnant of the building’s 18th-century past … and it’s where a woman’s strangled body was discovered in 1799. Scouting NY (a fascinating, wonderfully detailed blog written by location scout and hidden history enthusiast…

Giant Gummy Bear + Liquid Nitrogen + Shotgun = Magic

Because sometimes you have a World’s Largest Gummy Bear, some liquid nitrogen, and a 12-gauge all in the same place at the same time, and you’re just crazy enough to see what happens when you combine the three. And you’re also clever enough to film it for YouTube viewers ’round the world. What more is…

These Gorgeous Planters Made From Reclaimed Furniture Are Truly Gothic

So you’ve got that one crappy old chair that most definitely does not tie the room together. Why not take a page from Brazilian artist Rodrigo Bueno, whose love of nature has literally grown together with his creative spirit. Design Boom has the scoop: Sao Paulo-based Bueno lives and works in what he calls the…