Just as Spider-man has his spidey sense to warn him when danger's near, the bizarre tentacled snake has its own special system for sensing an approaching meal, a new study says.

The reptile uses its two head tentacles to "see" and pursue prey in murky lakes and slow-moving rivers in Southeast Asia, researchers have discovered. (See snake pictures.)

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Seems a sheep farmer in Alton Illinois Africa was puzzled about the disappearance of some sheep on his farm. After a few weeks the farmer
decided to put up an electric fence.

About a week later, this is what he found!( lj cut round 2 )

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New Scientist has also made a list of the years weirdest animals including a hairy frog that actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog's toe pads, probably when it is threatened and zombie caterpillars among others.

New Scientist has chosen its 12 Most Stunning Images of 2008 which includes a gorgeously freaky chick embryo, a baby kangaroo (more like an embryo) within its mother's pouch and a strange deadlock where a cat-eyed tree-snake, coiled around a branch, was locked in an embrace with a Morelet's treefrog. Check them out (and the others too).

This is what boredom and digging through the BBC Archives will get you:

An unusual clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida's swamps.

The Burmese python tried to swallow its fearsome rival whole but then exploded.

Clicky for the full article.

A friend of mine just gave me this article of the world's smallest snake:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080803/sc_nm/snake_smallest_dc_1


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Snakes, as everyone knows, are to coolest damn animals *ever*, and do some really strange things, including swallowing tremendous items, gliding between trees, and having massive orgies in Canada ( Read more... )