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You Can Eat This Emergency Survival Guide When Your Situation Gets Desperate

Land Rover likes to brag that its vehicles are best suited for off-road excursions. And to ensure the company’s customers in the United Arab Emirates survived a long drive into the desert, it created this handy survival guide that can even be eaten when food is scarce. It might only provide the same amount of…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

What would life be like if pterosaurs were alive today?

Paleontologists don’t always speculate about the existence of gigantic, winged reptiles living alongside humans in the 21st century, but when they do, they back that speculation up with plenty of scientific evidence. In this, the first installment in a two-part series, paleontologist Mark Witton explores an obviously speculative, totally puerile, and completely awesome topic —…

io9 Mark Witton - Pterosaur.net Blog

This is what ZZ Top looks like in space

Astronaut Don Pettit (previously: 1, 2, 3) loves performing intriguing experiments using the microgravity of the International Space Station. For his most recent video, Pettit visualized the sound waves of ZZ Top’s “TV Dinners” using several blobs of water and a speaker. Now I sort of want a television series in which ZZ Top are…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Dear people of the past, screw you for not making inflatable pants insanely popular

During the 1970s, multiple fitness companies tried to capitalize on the “air shorts” craze. And given that we’re all not prancing around in britches that resemble inflatable diapers, it’s safe to say that trend crashed hard. But what if air shorts did catch on in a massive way? Sure, the health benefits sound suspect (not…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Crete was once swarming with tiny mammoths

Here’s proof yet again that some of the cutest animals to ever walk the Earth are now long extinct — it seems islands in the Mediterranean may once have been crawling with tiny, tiny mammoths. The newly identified Mammuthus creticus has been identified from previously misattributed bones and new research, and this tiny mammoth would…

io9 Tim Barribeau

During World War II, Japan plotted to unleash a plague on the United States

Japan’s Unit 731 is one of the best kept and most horrifying secrets of World War II. Unit 731 experimented on Japanese and Chinese civilians as well as Russian and American POWs during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s and throughout World War II. Led by the enigmatic Dr. Shiro Ishii, Unit 731 committed…

io9 Keith Veronese

It’s Jason Todd versus Mr. Freeze, in this preview of Red Hood and the Outlaws

In the DC Comics’ story arc Night of the Owls, a band of almost immortal assassins known as the Talons descend upon Gotham City to wreak havoc. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-create-an-owl-ninja-with-the-skills-to-defeat-ba-5902411 And in the comic Red Hood and the Outlaws, one of these villains runs afoul of some equally unpleasant characters: Mr. Freeze and Batman’s former protégé, Jason…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Marion Cotillard swears her Dark Knight Rises character isn’t who you think!

Iron Man 3 is close to finding its new female costar. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are officially going to the long-awaited The World’s End. Steven Moffat drops hints about the new Doctor Who companion. Plus new Prometheus videos! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight Rises…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Holy heck, these Japanese hobbyists are building a 12-foot-tall pilotable mech

Microsoft Kinect has been used for some novel hacks, but this is straight out of Ghost In The Shell. Meet Vaudeville, a twelve-foot-tall, five-ton mecha that’s manipulated using Kinect, or that XBox peripheral commonly known for its embarrassing dance party games. https://gizmodo.com/every-office-needs-an-eye-of-sauron-to-boost-worker-mor-5784124 https://gizmodo.com/how-to-make-your-own-vigo-the-carpathian-painting-using-5854524 https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-kinect-includes-slave-bikini-leia-dance-off-c-5888547 A group of Tokyo mecha enthusiasts are building this imposing machine…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Some of the Cheesiest Movie Moments of All Time

One of the great thrills of appreciating retro pop culture is delving into the campiness and cheesiness of bygone eras. Over the years, io9’s “found footage” series has featured hundreds and hundreds of weird clips from movies and TV shows, plus other cultural detritus. Like the above clip, which comes from The Humanoid. Here are…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Joss Whedon explains why he had to do unspeakable things to one character in The Avengers

Now that most of the planet has seen The Avengers, we’re going to freely talk about one of the more tragic aspects of Joss Whedon’s movie. So if you wish to remain spoiler free stop reading here! Spoilers ahead… We’ve already analyzed why Whedon always kills the characters we love most — but now we…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Retro Science Fiction Movies that Everybody Should See

The greatest science fiction movies don’t just have cool ideas or an unforgettable story — they also have a distinctive visual style. And a lot of our favorite films reach back into the past, for retro visions of the future that look even cooler than ever, because they’ve become classic. You might have noticed there…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Amazing Spider-Man concept art shows an uncomfortable amount of the Lizard’s anatomy

Brand new Lizard concept art from The Amazing Spider-Man is leaving almost nothing to the imagination. We kind of love that they didn’t give him tiny lizard shorts. He looks as though even his nasty bits have mutated up inside of him. He’s a real human lizard man now! In any case, check out some…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watch Mars and Beyond, Disney’s trippy 1950s vision of space exploration and extraterrestrial life

Four years before the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 reached the surface of the Moon, and fourteen years ahead of the crewed Apollo 11 mission, Walt Disney introduced audiences to deep space exploration with a trio of fantastic space-themed featurettes. Disney’s motive for producing these “science factual” programs was two-fold. The first was to promote Tomorrowland…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

When Nuclear Bombs Were Going to be Used For Construction Work

The creator of dynamite wanted to use it in mining and construction, but saw it turned into a weapon. But nuclear weapons nearly went the other direction: they were developed as weapons, but were going to be used in construction. In Project Gnome, scientists experimented with using nukes to build, instead of destroy. When the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

New Prometheus featurette shows even more spoilery footage!

Who needs the theater? We’re starting to think we’ve seen the bulk of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus in these past few trailers. And here is yet another awesome new featurette talking about the dawn of humanity and whole lot of other wildly theatrical ideas with a bunch of new scenes dealing with what we believe is…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Hellboy’s on a one-way trip to Hell, and Mike Mignola’s our tour guide

As you may have heard through the grapevine, Hellboy experienced a mortality deficit last year and is currently stuck in his, ahem, “ancestral homeland.” The upcoming comic series Hellboy in Hell will detail Hellboy’s journey to the underworld, and his creator Mike Mignola will be along for the ride. Mignola filled io9 in on such…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How long ago did we finish domesticating horses?

From Black Beauty to My Little Pony: Frienship is Magic, humans have an ongoing love affair with horses (and their smaller pony cousins). But not too long ago, the wild creatures that became horses looked considerably different. Where did modern horses originate, and how did they become the domesticated species we know today? A new…

io9 Sophie Bushwick

An amazing short film about a beetle with surreal chemical powers

This is The Eagleman Stag, a BAFTA-award-winning stop-motion animated short by director Mikey Please. It’s about an entomologist who discovers a unique insect with an anatomy that can alter human consciousness in incredible ways. Here’s a synopsis: If you repeat the word ‘fly’ for long enough it sounds like you’re saying ‘life.’ This is of…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Watch this rare footage of the most endangered gorillas on Earth

Our planet is home to just four subspecies of gorilla. Every one of them is endangered, but rarest of all is the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli). Fewer than 250 of these primates are thought to survive in the wild, they typically flee when encountered by humans, and are notoriously camera shy. All this…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

You Can Eat This Emergency Survival Guide When Your Situation Gets Desperate

What would life be like if pterosaurs were alive today?

This is what ZZ Top looks like in space

Dear people of the past, screw you for not making inflatable pants insanely popular

Crete was once swarming with tiny mammoths

During World War II, Japan plotted to unleash a plague on the United States

It’s Jason Todd versus Mr. Freeze, in this preview of Red Hood and the Outlaws

Marion Cotillard swears her Dark Knight Rises character isn’t who you think!

Holy heck, these Japanese hobbyists are building a 12-foot-tall pilotable mech

Some of the Cheesiest Movie Moments of All Time

Joss Whedon explains why he had to do unspeakable things to one character in The Avengers

Retro Science Fiction Movies that Everybody Should See

Amazing Spider-Man concept art shows an uncomfortable amount of the Lizard’s anatomy

Watch Mars and Beyond, Disney’s trippy 1950s vision of space exploration and extraterrestrial life

When Nuclear Bombs Were Going to be Used For Construction Work

New Prometheus featurette shows even more spoilery footage!

Hellboy’s on a one-way trip to Hell, and Mike Mignola’s our tour guide

How long ago did we finish domesticating horses?

An amazing short film about a beetle with surreal chemical powers

Watch this rare footage of the most endangered gorillas on Earth

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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