National Geographic photog Paul Nicklen comes face to face with a leopard seal of unusual size.
One seal brought a penguin over to me. I didn’t touch it; I just sat there and photographed. The penguin took off, and the seal grabbed it, brought it back to me, and put it on my camera dome [...]
Here’s something to pay attention to: Biofortified, a pro-science group blog that takes on some of the hysteria surrounding GMO food.
Near death experiences always seem start out the same way — there was a tunnel, then a light…
Paranormalists often point to the commonalities of near death and out-of-body experiences as evidence of the proof of an afterlife or astral projection. Turns out there is a more mundane — though fascinating — explanation. These experiences are [...]
That’s whale fall — what happens when an enormous cetacean corpse hits the ocean floor — not whale fail — what happens when Twitter breaks.
You see, when the carcass lands on the bottom of the sea, a whole host of unpleasant critters come out to eat it in a process that can take months — [...]
Wired reports on the discovery of Speleonectes atlantida, “the cave swimmer of Atlantis” by Texas A&M researchers in the Tunel de la Atlántida, a volcanic cave near the Canary Islands. Charming.
Among its many features, aside from looking like Satan’s own translucent centipede, it is sightless and poisonous, complete with nasty fangs.
The divers were searching [...]
As your waterlogged corpse settles on the ocean floor, giant isopods, crabs and eels pick it clean in an orgy of dissection and feasting.
There is no Davy Jone’s Locker waiting for you on the bottom, dear mariner. (Not even a Peter Tork’s Wastebasket.)
Just the horror…the horror…
Don’t go in the water. Things in there want [...]
I could not be in the same ocean as this creature and not be gripped by paralyzing fear (not to mention paralyzing tentacles!). Behold, a great big jelly, the likes of which are not meant to be seen.
Jellyfish, heading for Tokyo to do battle with Godzilla
As the Discovery News reports, monster jellyfish like this [...]
The Star-Ledger reports that 95% of NJ bats died off this winter from a fungal infection known as “white-nose syndrome.” That sounds pretty damned scary, until you read the article and find that the headline was taken from a single reported hibernaculum (cool word meaning place where critters hibernate), the Hibernia Mine in Rockaway Township. [...]
There’s a petition online in support of Simon Singh, the UK science writer being sued by the British Chiropractic Association for, essentially, using the word “bogus” in the same article as “chiropractic.” You can get the full scoop at Jack of Kent, a blog that has really nailed the issue from the start.
Here’s the [...]
The Telegraph reports finding a 600ft jellyfish crop circle found in an Oxfordshire field.
Kill it!!! Oh, wait…
At the end of the article, the writer oddly refers to an entirely different crop circle from last year, and reuses the quotes from a retired astrophysicist on how THAT crop circle encodes pi.
I had to re-read [...]
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