The pea aphid is one of the weirdest and most versatile creatures around. It can reproduce sexually or asexually, can breed winged or unwinged babies, and is also a symbiote. This week, its genome has been sequenced ( Read more... )

Just found this blog while visiting the National Geographic site.

Source: National Geographic
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I checked tags and went back a while and didn't see this, keep in mind I fell off the internet. I wonder how many other people saw the same documentary I did not too long ago ehehe.


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I present you with Harry, the hairless Percheron horse.


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I saw this in my local paper today, and thought everyone here might enjoy this as well.

( And Mother Nature gets the last laugh again! )

I have watched wtf_nature for a while and noticed a lot of awesome and funny animals but very few oddities from the bio-medical world. You should see some of the weird science out there! I've recently (today) decided my contributions will contain these things that cross my brower.
Bone marrow 'cures HIV patient'
Doctors in Germany say a patient ( Read more... )

In the latest issue of New Scientist there is an article on the possibility of creating Ten extinct beasts that could walk the Earth again. I'd love to see a saber-toothed tiger and a Tasmanian tiger.

1:33 PM 12/7/2008 · I originally heard about this on The Colbert Report, which is not exactly the most credulous source in the world, but it sounded vaguely familiar so I did a little digging.

December 4, 2008: Nicholas Wade: Nicholas Wade explains why he's going to all the trouble of recreating a woolly mammoth.


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( That didn't last long. )

The deformed white tiger Kenny Rogers is dead.


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