So, fish tornados are a thing. A wonderful, magical, AYKM nature? thing.
Are you kidding me?
A very serious blog by Gulnaz Saiyed.
This person turned his dead cat into a helicopter and call it “art”. Just. so. wrong.
Something awful is happening in the waters off Peru’s northern coast, where some 3,000 dolphins have died and washed ashore since January. This rates as one of the worst, if not the worst, Unusual Mortality Event (UME) ever recorded.
› "Google's Intelligence Is More Baboon Than Human"
Yes, but Google probably can’t rip my face off.
This leopard has a rare condition that gives its coat a “strawberry” hue. Okay, it’s not super obvious, but still: pink leopard. Thanks, Nat Geo!
I don’t even know what’s real anymore.
Nature never ceases to amaze me.
Seal helps turtle to get in the water!
Animal GIFs and Friday afternoons: A match made in heaven.
(Source: jensac)
World’s Tiniest Chameleon.
Or am I dead and this is Heaven’s tiniest chameleon?
AYKM? This type of thing makes me not mad at, but disappointed in, humans.
life:
A casualty of Cold War tensions, Chi Chi was a Chinese panda on her way to an American zoo in 1958 when she ran afoul of a U.S. trade embargo of communist China. Michael Rougier photographed her while she was stranded in Frankfurt, forced to get by on wheat instead of her preferred bamboo leaves while her owner tried in vain to get a waiver from the U.S. Treasury Department. Ultimately, she found a home at the London Zoo, where she was one of the most popular attractions until her death in 1972.
Fun fact: Chi Chi was also the inspiration for the panda drawing made famous as the World Wildlife Fund logo.
(see more — LIFE at 75: Best Animal Photos)
Top new species of 2011
Lest you feel complacent about our knowledge of the diversity of life on this puny little planet, check out Wired’s list of the most interesting new species discovered in 2011. The highlights: a sawshark which hunts by slicing through schools of fish, then returning to eat them; rare Burmese monkeys notorious for sneezing, and thus exposing themselves to hunters; a self-cloning, all female lizard species first discovered on a restaurant menu; and an evolutionary relic known as an acorn worm. Click here to check out the whole list.
There were 12 frog species discovered in 2011!
TWELVE!!!!
