Biology

The Best and Cutest Bike Lock Is a Dog

Specifically, it’s a Golden Retriever. And this Golden Retriever in China guards his owner’s bike when his owner is away and then hops onto the seat when his owner comes back (he gives a bark when he’s comfortably set). So wonderful. [Sun Sentinel]

Biology Casey Chan

Pachyderm-Inspired Fan Lets You Direct the Breeze Through Its Adorable Trunk

Summer is right around the corner, and if air conditioning is a luxury you can’t afford, it’s time to start amassing your collection of fans to stay cool. We particularly like Yuen’to Design’s humorously-named Elefan which features an articulating trunk-like tube for directing its blast. Available in green, white, and a more elephant-appropriate shade of…

Biology Andrew Liszewski

You Might Not Want to Look at These Explicit Images of an Elephant’s Innards (NSFW)

John R. Hutchinson is an evolutionary biomechanist, which I’m going to trust has something to do with the elephant cadaver he explored and photographed. Horror porn. Shock porn. Tragedy porn. Whatever you call it, these images are incredible and gross and sad and I can’t stop staring at that long shiny smooth intestine. [WhatsInJohnsFreezer via…

Biology Molly Oswaks

The Animal-Friendly Furniture for Your Furry Friend at Home

Houston-based architect Paul Kweton has designed the perfect chair to share with your pet. The Rocking-2-gether Chair is made of computer-milled Birch plywood, with removable ribs that allow you to customize the look of your rocker and a hollow inner-chamber below the seat, for your dog or cat to nap in. This is the second…

Biology Molly Oswaks

Would You Scoop Dog Poop For Free Wi-Fi?

It seems to be the year of finding creative ways to get Wi-Fi outside. First, there was Homeless Hotspots, which offended a lot of people. Now, there are Dogshit Hotspots, which isn’t so much offensive as moderately gross. https://gizmodo.com/homeless-men-turned-into-human-routers-5892443 Creativity Online reports that the Mexican web portal Terra is plotting a new service in 10…

Biology Mario Aguilar

Puppy Social Networking Is Here to Rescue Lonely People

You’d do anything for your dog. It keeps you company and does the cutest things which you can Instagram and post to Twitter. All it asks in return is a few walks and treat every now and then. Your dog does not need a social network for its dog park parties, but obsessed dog owners…

Biology Mario Aguilar

This Is the World’s First Adult White Killer Whale

Say hello to Iceberg. Spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia, he is the first ever entirely white adult killer whale to be observed. While there have been examples of white whales in the past—including one orca with a rare genetic condition that died in a Canadian aquarium in 1972 when it was…

Biology Jamie Condliffe

Officials Don’t Know Why 877 Dead Dolphins Have Been Found on Beaches in Peru

From February to April, a 2-month span, 877 dead dolphins and porpoises have been found on the beaches of northern Peru. The problem? No one knows why. It could be a virus. It could be an infection. It could be seismic oil exploration. It could be air guns. It could be nothing? It’s probably not…

Biology Casey Chan

Polar Bears Aren’t Descended From Brown Bears After All

For a long time, it’s been thought that polar bears are recent descendants of brown bears and that their white coats and webbed feet evolved into being over the last 150,000 years. A new study proves that incorrect: in fact, polar and brown bears share a common ancestor, making polar bears 600,000 years old. The…

Biology Jamie Condliffe

Penguins Rocket Away from Danger Aboard Supercavitating Bubble Jets

Turns out, not being eaten by a leopard seal is excellent motivation. It’s what spurred penguins to develop an ingenious method of cutting down their drag—by wrapping themselves in a shawl of bubbles. When being hunted by a leopard seal in the water, penguins will attempt to escape by hurling themselves out of the water…

Biology Andrew Tarantola

Vampiric Implants Siphon Clam Essence for Electrical Power

Tomato juice, Bud Light, home electronics—is there anything clam won’t work well in? Everybody’s favorite bi-valve is now an essential part of an experimental engine—it’s the battery. https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-booze-on-the-planet-5866234 Evgeny Katz, a professor of chemistry at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. and his team are at it again. You may remember Katz from his previous experiment…

Biology Andrew Tarantola

Owls Aren’t So Intimidating Without All Their Feathers

They might look like badasses of the forest as they fly from tree to tree at night hunting for a meal. But if this cross-section of a taxidermied Great Grey Owl is to be believed, more than half of their intimidating bulk comes from their fluffy feathers. It makes sense given they’re really only active…

Biology Andrew Liszewski

Holy Memorandum! The Secret to Bats’ Super-Efficient Flight Could Help Make Better Military Drones

When a team of biologists, physicists, and engineers at Brown University put their heads together to look at batwings, they discovered how wings on everything from military vehicles to batman could become 35 percent more efficient. When scientists study wings on animals, they usually look at the shape of the wing and how that contributes…

Biology Kristen Philipkoski

Texting on the Go? Beware of Bears!

Texting while walking down the street holds many dangerous pitfalls: telephone poles, fellow pedestrians, pot-holes. Now you can add bears to the list of hazards. Residents of La Crescenta, California have been on the lookout for a 500 pound black bear that has been lurking around town since yesterday. This particular bear enjoys scaring the…

Biology Michael Hession

A Shark Without Its Skin Looks Even Scarier Than A Regular Shark

This is gross, yet I can’t take my eyes away from it. It’s a shark without its skin, part of Dr. Gunther von Hagens’ new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. Dr. Von Hagens’ team carefully removed the skin to show the vascular system underneath. The rest of the animals—more than 100 specimens—are…

Biology Jesus Diaz

Hawaiian Shirt Commando Tests Knives Against Frozen Pig Skull

Here at Gizmodo, we like to think we put our reviewed products through a rigorous, real-life evaluation. That’s one way of doing it. Or, you can test a device by attacking frozen animal corpses while wearing a Hawaiian shirt. This man, our representative from renowned animal-mauling knife-forger ColdSteel, is sporting some very aggressive shorts, isn’t…

Biology Sam Biddle

Cute Baby Sloth Photobombs a Group Picture

As desirable a lifestyle as sloths live, they’re hardly ever cute. This baby sloth however, is the cutest darn thing on the Internet. A group of students were taking a picture in Costa Rica when an upside down sloth crept into the shot and stayed there, giving the picture a hilarious photobomb. [NY Daily News]

Biology Casey Chan

Origin of Modern Cows Traced to a Single Herd

A genetic study of cattle has claimed that all modern domesticated bovines are descended from a single herd of wild ox, which lived 10,500 years ago. A team of geneticists from the National Museum of Natural History in France, the University of Mainz in Germany, and UCL in the UK excavated the bones of domestic…

Biology Duncan Geere-Wired UK

How Do Cats Survive Massive Falls?

Everyone knows that cats can somehow survive falling out of a tree, but last week a cat survived a 19-story fall in Boston. So just how the hell did it manage it? Science, as usual, can help explain: it’s mostly anatomy. But sadly, there is a lack of empirical evidence—scientists seem reluctant to throw cats…

Biology Jamie Condliffe

Giant Squid Have Eyes Twice the Size of Your Head

Giant squid are massive creatures, growing up to 45 feet in length. But if that size is difficult to imagine, maybe you can picture this; their eyes are up to 11 inches in diameter. That’s bigger than a basketball. Talking to the BBC, scientist Dan Nilsson explained that a unique dissection of a giant squid…

Biology Jamie Condliffe

The Best and Cutest Bike Lock Is a Dog

Pachyderm-Inspired Fan Lets You Direct the Breeze Through Its Adorable Trunk

You Might Not Want to Look at These Explicit Images of an Elephant’s Innards (NSFW)

The Animal-Friendly Furniture for Your Furry Friend at Home

Would You Scoop Dog Poop For Free Wi-Fi?

Puppy Social Networking Is Here to Rescue Lonely People

This Is the World’s First Adult White Killer Whale

Officials Don’t Know Why 877 Dead Dolphins Have Been Found on Beaches in Peru

Polar Bears Aren’t Descended From Brown Bears After All

Penguins Rocket Away from Danger Aboard Supercavitating Bubble Jets

Vampiric Implants Siphon Clam Essence for Electrical Power

Owls Aren’t So Intimidating Without All Their Feathers

Holy Memorandum! The Secret to Bats’ Super-Efficient Flight Could Help Make Better Military Drones

Texting on the Go? Beware of Bears!

A Shark Without Its Skin Looks Even Scarier Than A Regular Shark

Hawaiian Shirt Commando Tests Knives Against Frozen Pig Skull

Cute Baby Sloth Photobombs a Group Picture

Origin of Modern Cows Traced to a Single Herd

How Do Cats Survive Massive Falls?

Giant Squid Have Eyes Twice the Size of Your Head

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