Animals

Exotic Wild Animals Are on the Loose in Ohio, Police Asking People to Protect Themselves with Twitter

Eastern Ohio is shut down right now because exotic wild animals—bears, tigers, lions, cheetahs, wolves and other wildlife—are running amok. Police have been hunting down these animals throughout the night and have killed about 30 out of the 48 animals on the loose. It’s such a weird situation. The wild animals were originally from an…

Biology Casey Chan Oct 19

Watch a Cute Cat Fight a Hair Dryer’s Invisible Hot Air (Updated)

Cats. Those cute little kitties always have a mind of their own and they’re not afraid to show it. So if you blow hot air in their face with a hair dryer, they’ll try to smack the beejizzle out of the air. So. Damn. Cute. [MoonGrate via The Awesomer] Update: Welps, it turns out that…

Biology Casey Chan Oct 13

The last sound you’ll hear as you’re torn apart by piranhas is barking

The revelations never cease. First, it turns out that piranhas aren’t the vicious cow-stripping killers we’d been led to believe. Now it turns out that they bark when they see things they don’t like. Discover the physics of how piranhas yip away like yappy dogs. Scientists knew that piranhas could and did bark when provoked,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 13

Dog Sacrifices Dignity In the Service of This Star Wars AT-AT Costume

Halloween was a hoot this year, but Angie never looked any of us in the eye ever again. Probably shouldn’t have reenacted the harpoon gun scene with her tiny legs. Nope, probably shouldn’t have done that at all. [LAIKA via Super Punch via Boing Boing]

Biology Jack Loftus Oct 8

Bats Make the Same Sound SAM’s Do When They Have Radar-Lock

You know what I’m talking about; that accelerating high-pitched beep bleeding into a squeal as the projectile locks-on and closes on your position. It’s the “Oh shit I’m dead” sound for fighter pilots and whatever “oh shit I’m dead” translates into for bugs as well, apparently. This squeal is known as a “terminal buzz” and,…

Biology Andrew Tarantola Oct 1

And the Ig Nobel Prize Goes To: Crusher Tank Parking Enforcer, Wasabi Alarm and Structured Procrastination

The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded last night! It’s that fun time of year when we get to enjoy scientists’ geektastic senses of humor. The awards are held annually at Harvard University. A highlight this year was the Peace Prize, which went to the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for demonstrating that best way to deal…

Biology Kristen Philipkoski Sep 30

PETA Doesn’t Give a Shit About Humans

What do you think about when I say PETA? Animal rights. Celebrities posing naked. Vegetarian and vegan awareness. All great things, right? Sure. Too bad they’re a bunch of reasonless rabblerousers that don’t care about a human life. Charles Wickersham, a 21-year-old guy, was bitten by a shark while fishing with his friends in the…

Biology Casey Chan Sep 28

Adorable two-faced kitty wins Guinness Record — and our hearts

It’s not easy being born a Janus cat, but Frank and Louie outlived them all, earning him a spot in the Guinness World Records. Watch Frank and Louie go! Click to view According to The Telegram, Frank and Louie was brought to the Tufts Veterinary Clinic to be euthanized but Marty, a veterinary nurse, decided…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 27

Because Brian Barrett Is on Vacation

Known panda-hater, poll-loser, and Gizmodo senior editor Brian Barrett is out on vacation at the moment. So I’m free to post this sickeningly adorable photo of panda bears—wonderful, tenacious creatures—sleeping in a giant panda crib. Eat it, Brian. https://gizmodo.com/should-we-just-let-pandas-die-off-already-5841175 If anyone dares follow Brian’s fatuous attempts to defame the noble, cuddly beast, I will direct…

Biology Sam Biddle Sep 27

One number unites anything that flies or swims

There are similarities in the way a bird flies through the air and a dolphin swims through the water. And yet how do you compare the flap of a butterfly to the enormous movement of a blue whale? The best way, it turns out, is with their respective Strouhal Numbers. It’s easy to figure what’s…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 26

Cat Scratch Turntable Is the Only Stupid Thingamajig That Actually Needs a USB Connection

If you have a cat, $23 and get easily amused, you should grab the Cat Scratch Turntable—a fake turntable with a rotating scratching pad that sadly can’t be connected to your iPod. [Suck UK via Oh Gizmo! via Wired]

Biology Jesus Diaz Sep 26

The Soup That Is Killing the Ocean (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

You’ve probably heard a lot about shark fin soup recently. It’s been all over the news; Yao Ming is plastered on busses across the country begging you not to eat it. Richard Branson is talking about it. But why now? The soup has been around for centuries; why is it only recently becoming a conservation…

Biology Kristen Philipkoski Sep 23

7 Tools to Turn Your Dog Into a Pet of the Future

Your dogs are taking over your gadgets. They scratch at your iPad, step on your laptop keyboard, and chew on your headphones. They need some gadgets of their own. Ones they can actually use. We got you covered. Garmin Astro GPS Dog Tracking System If your dog breaks out of the house or yard a…

Biology Adrian Covert Sep 21

Pet Rabbit Rescues Homeowner From Fire

You often read about a dog or a cat saving an owner’s life, but you almost never read about a heroic rabbit. That is until now. The rabbit rescue went down in Ketchikan, Alaska where an early morning fire broke out in a residence. The rabbit was apparently aware of the fire, jumped on the…

Biology Kelly Sep 21

How to Save a Dog’s Life? Take Better Pictures

So many dogs are euthanized every year because they can’t find a family to adopt them. It’s not their fault. With some better picture taking, a few cute poses and accessories, dogs can find a new home in no time. It’s true, Dallas pet photographer Teresa Berg has taken it upon herself to “better market”…

Biology Casey Chan Sep 20

How did this giant animal skeleton get into a nice suburban home?

Photographer Marc da Cuhna Lopes imagines a desolate future in which people are gone, and somehow giant animal skeletons have taken over our world. But don’t panic — that’s not really a person-sized animal that somehow died while perched on a bed. It’s an illusion of scale. Da Cuhna Lopes takes photographs of deserted, abandoned…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 20

The Mathematical Formula for Designer Babies with Tiger Stripes or Leopard Spots

The leopard and the jaguar are renowned for their lovely spotted coats, and tigers for their stripes. Math and genetics show us how we can get the same things for our own offspring — along with why no striped animals have spotted tails. As weird as it may seem, one model describes almost all mammal…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 20

See the Amazing Killifish Jump From Its Mud Puddle Habitat

The killifish is a weird little critter that lives in muddy puddles that cars and trucks drive right through, and no one knows how they don’t get crushed. Some people are completely obsessed with them. Take Mateuz Herczka, a Swiss artist at the Verbeke Gallery in Antwerp (also home to Eduardo Kac, creator of the…

Biology Kristen Philipkoski Sep 19

Someday soon you could be drinking pigeon milk.

Bird milk, the fluid that’s produced in the crop of pigeons and a few other species of birds, nourishes their chicks. And now, scientists have found the gene expression involved, and may be able to extract milk from pigeons in the future. But why would you want to? Although only mammals produce what a biologist…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 19

China Creates “Infinite Hero Bacon” by Cloning Invincible Earthquake Pig

Where does one secure the very best bacon? The supermarket? Shut up, rookie! You secure it from the heroic pig that survived for more than a month buried beneath the rubble of China’s horrific Sichuan earthquake. His name is Zhu Jianqiang, or “Strong-Willed Pig,” but he might as well be known as “Infinite Hero Bacon”…

Biology Jack Loftus Sep 18

Exotic Wild Animals Are on the Loose in Ohio, Police Asking People to Protect Themselves with Twitter

Watch a Cute Cat Fight a Hair Dryer’s Invisible Hot Air (Updated)

The last sound you’ll hear as you’re torn apart by piranhas is barking

Dog Sacrifices Dignity In the Service of This Star Wars AT-AT Costume

Bats Make the Same Sound SAM’s Do When They Have Radar-Lock

And the Ig Nobel Prize Goes To: Crusher Tank Parking Enforcer, Wasabi Alarm and Structured Procrastination

PETA Doesn’t Give a Shit About Humans

Adorable two-faced kitty wins Guinness Record — and our hearts

Because Brian Barrett Is on Vacation

One number unites anything that flies or swims

Cat Scratch Turntable Is the Only Stupid Thingamajig That Actually Needs a USB Connection

The Soup That Is Killing the Ocean (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

7 Tools to Turn Your Dog Into a Pet of the Future

Pet Rabbit Rescues Homeowner From Fire

How to Save a Dog’s Life? Take Better Pictures

How did this giant animal skeleton get into a nice suburban home?

The Mathematical Formula for Designer Babies with Tiger Stripes or Leopard Spots

See the Amazing Killifish Jump From Its Mud Puddle Habitat

Someday soon you could be drinking pigeon milk.

China Creates “Infinite Hero Bacon” by Cloning Invincible Earthquake Pig

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