https://eidolon.pub/dont-look-now-but-there-s-an-ancient-roman-depiction-of-a-dolphin-under-your-bed-780e50ce08d9
The ancient Romans conquered the entire Mediterranean. They gave the world legendary badasses, both real and fictional, such as Julius Caesar, Spartacus, and Decimus Meridius Maximus...
https://www.audubon.org/news/inside-germanys-giant-hungry-flightless-bird-problem
Greater Rheas, native to South America, are thriving in northern Europe—and coming into conflict with farmers whose crops they eat.
The rhea’s unlikely appearance in the wild in this corner of the world began two...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mystery-monkey-spotted-borneo-forest-145625532.html
An unidentified "mystery monkey"could be a rare hybrid of two different species, a new study says.
Interbreeding between distantly related species is "rarely observed in the wild," according to the study.
The hybrid...
By now, you’ve heard about production delays a thousand times due to supply chain issues and chip shortages. Imagine you’re waiting on a Mercedes-Benz to arrive and you receive a notice that your car has been delayed for a day due to a leopard interruption. That’s an email that you should save...
https://theconversation.com/lord-of-the-rings-debunking-the-backlash-against-non-white-actors-in-amazons-new-adaption-177791?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1645803730
J.R.R. Tolkien’s much-loved fantasy The Lord of the Rings is a work of epic scale, portraying races of imaginary...
https://www.queerty.com/jerry-falwell-jr-opens-pool-boy-scandal-says-whole-evangelical-thing-just-act-20220126
Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife, Becki, are finally opening up about that whole pool boy scandal that destroyed their sterling reputation among evangelicals, crushed their powerful...
https://www.livescience.com/tibetan-mastiff-wolf-genes.html
Tibetan mastiffs are monstrous dogs that survive high in the mountains, and now we know their ability to thrive in such harsh and low-oxygen environs comes from an extra shot of wolfishness in their genes.
https://www.curiousdoodle.com/vietnams-unique-floor-flooded-with-fishes-cafe/
Located in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, Amix Coffee features two flooded floors filled with hundreds of fish both small and large. They are both insulated with two layers of plastic tarp and furniture legs are wrapped...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lobster-caught-maine-insanely-rare-181319594.html
A lobster fisherman in Maine has caught an incredibly rare, one in a 100m “cotton candy” lobster that he has called Haddie and has now saved from being put in a cooking pot.
In a Facebook post, Get Maine Lobster, a...
https://www.queerty.com/christian-extremists-advertise-jesusween-buses-urge-people-let-jesus-inside-oct-31-20211012
A group of Christian extremists are once again trying to co-opt Halloween (a.k.a. “Gay Christmas”) by turning it into “JesusWeen” and advertising about it on city buses.
No, this...
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/prehistoric-humans-kept-world-most-202807947.html
Humans are not shy about keeping dangerous animals as pets. Lion tamer is an actual job. Bears, elephants, and tigers have long histories performing in circuses and Las Vegas shows. And even the dumbest people on...
https://www.queerty.com/pastor-says-gay-people-kill-know-wrong-hate-20211001
Nashville-based pastor Kent Christmas is at it again. We recently reported on how the preacher (sporting some nice rainbow shirt buttons) warned a large audience in Washington DC of how the “demonic spirit” of...
https://gizmodo.com/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-witness-chimps-kill-1847330442
New research details two fatal encounters in which wild chimpanzees attacked and killed gorillas. It’s a rare example of one great ape species attacking another
Intraspecies violence, including lethal...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-wild-boars-organized-cage-095900563.html
A wild boar can be seen freeing two piglets from a trap in images captured by researchers.
The female boar can be seen strategically targeting wooden logs that blocked the doors of the trap.
Scientists say it's the...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire-wolves-were-not-really-wolves-new-genetic-clues-reveal/
Dire wolves are iconic beasts. Thousands of these extinct Pleistocene carnivores have been recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. And the massive canids have even received some...
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like us!
Quintus Ennius (239 B.C. – 169 B.C.)
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-sighting-of-an-albino-chimp-in-the-wild-and-his-tragic-death/
Among the dense forests of Uganda, researchers have observed the first known case of a wild...
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