Brought to you by the departments of fascinating and weird, have some animal links...

Genetic engineers in Japan engineer the cat-fear out of mice. I wonder what the auditory equivalent for humans to a lion's roar would be...

And these crazy photoshopped animals come courtesy eamclaren. Many of them really come close to being feasible-seeming creatures ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Real Post Day. But for now...

There is a comet larger than the sun passing through the solar system. Link courtesy gregvaneekhout.

And National Geographic has a sea dinosaur IMAX feature! that I really want to see, but the nearest theatre is in Rochester. Sigh.

And check out this nasty guy in particular. The ecology of that ancient sea rivals any ( Read more... )

If you're not a citizen, you might not qualify as human:
http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060531_rfid_chips.html

And this one, quirkier and less dark, courtesy jaylakeRead more... )