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    Don’t Look Now, But There’s an Ancient Roman Depiction of a Dolphin Under Your Bed a horrifying inquiry, with pictures and Benjamin Franklin

    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...
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    Inside Germany’s Giant, Hungry, Flightless-Bird Problem

    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...
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    'Mystery monkey' spotted in a Borneo forest could be a rare hybrid of two different species, new study says

    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...
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    Some religious silliness from the The Cloisters Apocalypse, 1330

    Jesus teaching a deformed sheep to read Satan sitting on a howdah on a giant basset hound
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    Leopard walks in, shuts down a Mercedes-Benz plant

    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...
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    Lord of the Rings: debunking the backlash against non-white actors in Amazon’s new adaption

    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...
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    Valentine's Day cryptozoology

    https: //www.reddit.com/r/SpeculativeEvolution/comments/ssb0cy/some_valentine_themed_cryptozoology_courtesy_of/
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    Jerry Falwell Jr. opens up about pool boy scandal, says the whole evangelical thing was just an act

    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...
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    Tibetan Mastiffs Bred with Mountain Wolves to Survive at Super-High Altitudes

    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.
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    Please Don't Step on the Fish! Vietnam's Unique Flooded Cafe

    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...
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    Rare ‘cotton candy lobster’ seeks home after rescue by Maine fisherman

    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...
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    A parody of Creationism and old Hanna-Barbera cartoons

    I have been looking for this forever, I figured it was good enough for it's own thread
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    Christians advertise “JesusWeen” on buses, urge people to let Jesus inside them on Oct 31

    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...
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    Prehistoric Humans Kept World’s Most Dangerous Bird as Pets

    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...
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    Pastor says gay people kill themselves as they “know it’s wrong” and “hate doing it”

    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...
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    For the First Time Ever, Scientists Witness Chimps Killing Gorillas

    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...
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    photos show a family of wild boars organizing a cage breakout of 2 piglets, demonstrating high levels of intelligence and empathy

    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...
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    Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal

    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...
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    First Sighting Of An Albino Chimp In The Wild; Then Murdered By Other Chimps

    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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