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Out in Morocco, a certain type of goat are able to climb a certain type of tree in search of food, and they do so with the agility of, well, mountain goats.

And look, here’s a video, too!

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{Mad: Goat on a pole}

If you never thought you’d feel bad for cockroaches, consider this: The green jewel wasp can perform brain surgery on a cockroach, turning it into a living zombie.
The tropical wasp injects venom that blocks octopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with alertness and movement. Once the roach is its slave, the wasp plants its own larvae inside […]

Goat has six horns, which, human experts say, is very rare. No wonder the bugger is so smug and proud.
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ATLANTA — Two men claim they’ve bagged Bigfoot, and they say they have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer.
Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of northern Georgia, across the country from the remote regions of the Northwest where people usually claim […]

More hairless mice goodness.

The giant water bug Belostomatidae’s deeply charming way of reproduction goes like this:
Males attract the females doing a series of periodic movements near water surface generating ripples in the water known as display pumping. Before a female begins ovipositing the eggs, she mates with the male. Then a series of intercalated matings and ovipositions occur, […]

Everyone now calls this weird shit the “Montauk Monster“. We still call it “goat sex gone horribly wrong.” And we’re doing a countdown till someone steps forward and admits this is one of those viral marketing things some clever bullshit-peddlers love doing.

But apparently, there are three witnesses willing to say fascinating things about it, so […]

Because individuals are presumably locally rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is problematic. When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were females. These individuals were a few inches in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned […]