SKIRMISHER

Mad scientist/inventor Matthias Wandel one day found a wasp nest in his property. And naturally, like any ordinary person, he made this wasp-sucking machine that, uhh, sucks wasps. Now he has a glass box full of wasps, and who wouldn’t be happy with that? I love wasps!

Fruit bats, specifically the females of the greater short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx), were observed to perform oral sex on the male. Apparently, the following are the benefits.
(1) The activity may increase lubrication and thus prolong copulation, in turn assisting transport the transport of sperm or stimulating secretions in the female bat’s pituitary gland, thereby [...]

Do you see it? No? It’s an animal caught 1 and a half miles offshore, and it’s not even a fish.

Scientists discovered 850 previously unknown underground-dwelling species living in subterranean water, caves, and micro-caverns in Australia, and almost all are blind, lacking in eyes and pigment.
The scientists found these species during a comprehensive four-year survey of underground water and caves across arid and semi-arid Australia.
Austin and his colleagues suggest these species hid underground long ago [...]

When attacked, the Spanish ribbed newt pushes out its ribs until they pierce through its body, exposing a row of bones that act like poisonous barbs.
The newt has to force its bones through its skin every time it is attacked, say scientists who have described the form and function of the barbs in detail.
Yet this [...]

Animals, like the gila monster and venomous snakes, have long been indirectly contributing to the development of important life-saving drugs for humans.
The words “drug development” may conjure images of white-coated scientists, working at benches with pipettes and petri dishes.
But the real experiments have been occurring in nature for millennia, where life on land and sea [...]

This cat is currently getting so much attention in China because of that extra pair of “wing-like appendages”. Humans, of course, decide they’re now so fucked.

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A zoo in Australia was evacuated today after an “ingenious” 137-pound orangutan short-circuited an electric fence and hopped a wall surrounding her enclosure.
The ape, a 27-year-old female named Karta, jammed a stick into wires connected to the fence and then piled up debris to climb a concrete and glass wall at the Adelaide Zoo.
Just one [...]

A frozen baby mammoth, dead for 40,000 years, says hello, sort of, to a baby human, which isn’t frozen, but who knows, one can hope!

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Thai villagers in the Chiang Khong district caught this OMFG giant catfish. Yes, it’s a catfish. And when it eventually died, like 3 minutes later, they ate it all. Very tasty, especially when you know you’re eating something very rare.

Just one of the biggest sea creatures ever caught.

The Mycocepurus smithii, a newly discovered group of Amazonian ants, are all females and reproduce only by cloning. Their sexual organs have virtually disappeared, not because they’re actually small ants that don’t normally remind you of sexual organs when you think of them, but because they really want to be cool.

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Earth’s future overlord, delivered by some dog.

Predator X — a new species of a Pliosaur — is said to have been the most dangerous creature to have lived under water.
The creature was about 50 feet (15 meters) long, weighed approximately 45 tonnes (40,823,000 kg), had a head ten feet (3 meters) long and jaws armed with teeth the size of cucumbers.
Dr. [...]

This turtle is hardcore.

Essy, a Cherry Valley duck, thinks she’s a dog and even has her own lead to go for walks around Bournemouth, Dorset, with owners Steph and Tony Tufft and their Staffordshire cross dogs Rachka, two, and DD, four. One happy dysfunctional family.

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