Animals

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 Apr 3

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 Mar 30

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 Mar 27

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 Mar 26

Watch a tail-wagging reunion between a woman and her wolf friends

You know how excited dogs get when their owners come home at the end of the day? Multiply that by four and turn those dogs into wolves, and you’ll have an idea of the pure canine joy in this video. For two years, this woman, Anita, socialized these wolves at the Polar Zoo in Salangsdalen,…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 25

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 Mar 16

Brand New Species Discovered in New York City

We hear about new species of animals and bugs discovered in far flung parts of the globe all the time. Yawn. But this newfound froggy was spotted amidst the concrete and taxi cabs of Staten Island. The New York Times reports: On a foray into the wilds of Staten Island in 2009, Jeremy A. Feinberg,…

Biology Kristen Philipkoski Mar 14

Vampiric Implants Turn Snails Into Tiny Recon Scouts

The idea of using insects and other small creatures as data-gathering devices has always been hampered by the need for short-lived external batteries. But what if you used the animal’s own metabolism to continuously power their sensors? A research team from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, and lead by Evgeny Katz have devised just…

Biology Andrew Tarantola Mar 12

Meet Ratatouille, the adorable snowboarding opossum

Ratatouille may perhaps be the first opossum featured on Sportcenter. That’s because this little guy has done what few possums dare to dream of: become a star snowboarder. He rides the slopes at the Liberty Mountain Resort in Carroll Valley, PA, where he has his very own lift pass. It’s a good thing, too. Wouldn’t…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 10

10 Weapons That Animals Use

We’ve come a long way from thinking that what separates us from the animals is, say, using a rock to bash in the skull of our competitors. It turns out that there are a lot of creatures out that that re-purpose tools to make their personal world better and someone else’s world a lot worse.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 9

It’s impossible to be anything but happy while watching the live Penguin Cam

Warning: Do not watch this adorable live stream of the Penguins at SeaWorld in San Diego unless you can squeal with happiness at your place of work. Just wait until the first penguin takes a run at the live penguin camera, and you’ll turn into a hopeless pile of joy. The live stream is promoting…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 6

Wild Bears Use Stones to Exfoliate, Putting My Personal Hygiene to Shame

When it comes to skin care, I’ve long known that I don’t put much effort in. But I didn’t expect a wild bear to put me to shame, with its fancy-pants use of a stone to keep itself looking good. In fact, it’s the first time a bear’s ever been observed using a tool, and…

Biology Jamie Condliffe Mar 5

This Prehistoric Penguin Was the Biggest Penguin Ever

If you thought emperor penguins were big, this prehistoric cousin put them to shame. In its day it stood over four feet tall and was 50 per cent heavier than the already pretty massive emperor we know today. Researchers from New Zealand have reconstructed the 26 million-year old fossilized skeleton, revealing a penguin unlike any…

Biology Jamie Condliffe Feb 29

This Bat Has the Ugliest Face I’ve Ever Seen

There are pros and cons to being a bat. Pros: can fly and catch prey in the dark, have a luscious fur coat. Cons: have possibly the ugliest nose in the known universe. Well, that is, if you’re this newly discovered leaf-nosed bat from Vietnam. The bat was first spotted in the wild in Chu…

Biology Jamie Condliffe Feb 27

Creepy Taxidermied Animals Now Make Creepy Music Too

Adding to the bizarre uses of taxidermied animals, David Cranmer made this deceased badger even creepier by turning it into a functioning, and playable, theremin. He calles it the Badgermin, but I call it the source of my nightmares tonight. https://gizmodo.com/behold-the-horrors-of-mutant-taxidermy-5870453 I’ve no idea where he sourced the animal, but the Badgermin’s guts are now…

Biology Andrew Liszewski Feb 25

How To Take Extreme Close-Ups of a Gorilla Using Only Your Phone’s Camera

Have you ever taken pictures at the zoo? It’s an exercise in futility. Your puny camera strains to see far-away beasts with their backs turned. Lame. But what if you could get them to come right up to you? That’s exactly what Mark Rober has figured out how to do. Mark is our rocket scientist…

Biology Brent Rose Feb 15

Why Is This Squirrel Purple?

A couple in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, found a purple squirrel in their backyard. No one knows why it’s purple. And it’s really freaking purple. Percy Emert and his wife, Connie, trap squirrels in their yard and release them in a different neighborhood to keep the animals from pilfering their bird feeders. The other day, a…

Biology Kristen Philipkoski Feb 10

How The Zebra Actually Got Its Stripes

Despite being perhaps the most recognizable animal on the planet, biologists have been puzzled for centuries over how the zebra got its stripes. But scientists have worked out an answer, and it’s nothing to do with camouflaging themselves in long grass. Adam Egri from Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, believes that zebras evolved stripes to…

Biology Jamie Condliffe Feb 10

What Playing in a Dog Park Looks Like from a Dog’s Point of View (Hint: Awesome)

I’ve always wondered what the world looks like from a dog’s point of view. After watching this video, now I know. Kelsey Wynn outfitted his Great Dane, Bishop, with a GoPro and took him to the dog park to play. You get to see everything Bishop’s see and it looks so freaking fun. Wynn attached…

Biology Casey Chan Jan 27

Welsh Park Considers Using Bees as Sentries

Marijuna farmers tried it with bears, and now a parks and recreation department in Wales wants to do it with bees: critters as cheap security. It didn’t work out all that well with the bears. They just kind of lollygagged while Canadian cops raided the marijuana farm. But bees are different. Bees swarm. It’s so…

Biology Kristen Philipkoski Jan 24

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?

Watch a tail-wagging reunion between a woman and her wolf friends

Giant Squid Have Eyes Twice the Size of Your Head

Brand New Species Discovered in New York City

Vampiric Implants Turn Snails Into Tiny Recon Scouts

Meet Ratatouille, the adorable snowboarding opossum

10 Weapons That Animals Use

It’s impossible to be anything but happy while watching the live Penguin Cam

Wild Bears Use Stones to Exfoliate, Putting My Personal Hygiene to Shame

This Prehistoric Penguin Was the Biggest Penguin Ever

This Bat Has the Ugliest Face I’ve Ever Seen

Creepy Taxidermied Animals Now Make Creepy Music Too

How To Take Extreme Close-Ups of a Gorilla Using Only Your Phone’s Camera

Why Is This Squirrel Purple?

How The Zebra Actually Got Its Stripes

What Playing in a Dog Park Looks Like from a Dog’s Point of View (Hint: Awesome)

Welsh Park Considers Using Bees as Sentries

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