Absurd Creatures: This Bird Impales Its Victims on Thorns. How Metal Is That?
The innocent-looking shrike bashes its victims’ heads in, then impales them on thorns before tearing them to shreds. The post…
Aggregating the Future
The innocent-looking shrike bashes its victims’ heads in, then impales them on thorns before tearing them to shreds. The post…
And has dementor fingers. The post Absurd Creatures: The Tarsier Leaps Like a Superhero, Looks Like Yoda appeared first on…
Our Absurd Creatures series is back, baby! And what is this? The most terrifying creature in the sea, the bobbit…
In a new BBC video, David Attenborough visualizes a story in a whole new dimension. The post VR Will Make…
The Asian giant hornet is like a modern winged T. rex, decapitating honey bees dozens at a time. The post…
In the age of human-induced mass extinction, frogs face great peril, which makes cataloging and understanding them of urgent importance.…
This is the saga of bowerbird hanky-panky, a romance packed with more lies, illusions, and thievery than a soap opera—with…
John Sullivan has seen plenty of electric fishes. But when he pulled his trap out Gabon’s Ogooué River in 2014, he…
Solenodons are one of just a handful of mammals with venom glands that deliver a powerful toxin. The post Absurd Creature…
The battle over parsimony is actually the story of a war between biologists and a scientific society with a reputation…