Morays: scarier than you ever thought possible.

What the heck is going on right when it swallows the piece of squid?



That, pretty much. It turns out that moray eels have a pharyngeal jaw, which essentially means they have another mouth in their goddamned throat. Scroll down on that page for fun diagrams, then click this.

One more: MSNBC article

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Baby kiwis are ugly

A newly-born North Island Brown Kiwi, the 1,000th reared as part of a rescue programme in Rotorua, New Zealand, poses for the cameras.

From BBC's Day in Pictures.

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Cutest animals that could still destroy you

Sorry for the lapse, kids. My house burned down. For real.

Cracked.com's The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You.

If animals could talk, they would spend most of their time calling us dicks and telling us to get off their land. The traits we think of as "cute" are often simply tricks animals have developed to get tourists to throw them food.

Here are six animals that you'll probably want to steer clear of, no matter how adorable they look on that wall calendars.

The whole thing is worth reading, but if you must look at only one part let it be the swan video.



BACK IN THE POND, MOTHERFUCKER

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Chinese people throw goats at lions, are evil

Animals torn to pieces by lions in front of baying crowds: the spectator sport China DOESN'T want you to see

The smiling children giggled as they patted the young goat on its head and tickled it behind the ears.
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It could have been a happy scene from a family zoo anywhere in the world but for what happened next.
A man hoisted up the goat and nonchalantly threw it over a wall into a pit full of hungry lions. The poor goat tried to run for its life, but it didn't stand a chance. The lions quickly surrounded it and started tearing at its flesh.

China is fucked up, okay, we get it. Do we really need sensationalist demonization like this?

"It's almost a form of child abuse," says Carol McKenna of the OneVoice animal welfare group. "The cruelty of Chinese zoos is disgusting, but think of the impact on the children watching it. What kind of future is there for China if its children think this kind of cruelty is normal?

"In China, if you love animals you want to kill yourself every day out of despair."

Oh, how about this!

"Zoos like this make me want to boycott everything Chinese," says Emma Milne, star of the BBC's Vets In Practice.

"I'd like to rip out everything in my house that's made in China. I have big problems with their culture.

I have big problems with their culture. Rattle that sabre! Here's a hint, people: there's a little more to "culture" than the things you don't like. Doesn't anyone remember Ota Benga, the African guy they put in the Bronx Zoo's monkey house?

Okay, enough outrage at a stupid tabloid. Check out some of the idiotic comments! (the first is my favorite)

Disqusting and sick; Is this the 21st Century? Never EVER having a Chinese meal again; Awful;

This makes me weep. If I can possibly boycott Chinese products I will do so. What a disgusting "culture".

How horrific it is to think of the suffering of these poor defenseless animals. It makes me wish (making me no better than them unfortunately.....)we could watch some of the handlers or bosses suffer a far more painful and slower demise in place of the creatures that are used for "sport".

This is absolutely barbaric! What type of human being or people in a culture get their kicks off of seeing such brutality on INNOCENT animals? Obviously the answer is the people in China.

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Horde of ruthless crustaceans destroying Japanese island

Japan seems to attract bizarre circumstances.

Crustacean "Swarm" Destroying Small Hiroshima Island

Millions of tiny crustaceans are causing a small island in southern Japan to disappear at an alarming rate, according to a local expert.

The animals, tiny relatives of crabs and shrimp that are known in the region as nanatsuba-kotsubumushi, are boring into the uninhabited island of Hoboro.

Japanese bloggers have apparently known about this for a few months, an a few appear to have gone and checked it out.

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Goat vs. Entire herd of cows

The Battle Is On: Cows Vs Goat - The funniest videos clips are here

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Chicken on a Slide

Happy New Year everybody!

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Humongous 5000 pound Manta Ray

Merry... whatever. Okay? Okay!

Did you know that manta rays can get goddamned gigantic? Check these two newspaper scans out, nearest I can tell they're real - Wikipedia, ever the scholarly source, says that "The manta ray, or giant manta (Manta birostris), is the largest of the rays, with the largest known specimen having been about 7.6 m (25ft) across, with a weight of about 2,300 kg (5,000 lb)."




I love how they shot it. PSA: "Although [mantas] may approach humans, if touched, their mucus membrane is removed, causing lesions and infections on their skin."

Don't do that shit.

Modern Mechanix

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Feral children

'Werewolf boy' - who snarls and bites - on the run from police after escaping Moscow clinic

Russian police are hunting a "werewolf boy" - who snarls and bites - after he escaped from a Moscow clinic just a day after being rescued from the wild.

Doctors expressed shock saying he was found living with a pack of wolves in a remote forest in the Kaluga region of central Russia.

Wikipedia says, "A feral child (feral, - wild or undomesticated) is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language." I've always thought Kaspar Hauser was interesting, but there are dozens of cases of this sort of thing.

Also: Feralchildren.com, and the incredibly uplifting Wikipedia article on child abandonment!

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Tiny, harmless bird terrorizes senate press room

Birdie Senate chase

A bird gets loose in the Senate Press gallery, and a chase with nets and granola crumbs ensues. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports

(bird in the senate? Get it? I think I'm funny.)

"Journalist" Jeanne Moos might make this video nearly unwatchable, but the reactions of the press critters are priceless. My favorite part is when one of them gets pooped on, but it's okay because "he's a bald guy."

Bonus: footage of bison breaking into a tennis court.

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