BurningbirdThe critters we love and the critters that deserve our love.
If this checks out, the giant squid, Architeuthis Dux has been captured on film by a Japanese research team. Marine biologists have been trying to film a live, adult giant squid for decades. This is a major breakthrough, especially as they have a sample from the creature filmed, for DNA verification. The Washington Post article has a single frame […]
PZ Myers goes into wonderful detail on how cephlapods can bite with no internal skeleton; and Danny points to a photo of a baby octopus. Which most likely won’t be biting very hard.
Excerpted from the Humane Society article After the flood, animals find way to survive in the Big Easy. Adrift in this floating living room, the golden-coated pit bull found shelter in the only place the water couldn’t reach: a black-metal frame encasing the air conditioning unit in a nearby window. At least that’s where the rescue […]
My roommate came home this afternoon and asked when the bush on the corner had been removed. I had just been downstairs and when I looked out the window, the small, sickly bush on the corner of the dirt in front of our place was still there; still stubbornly hanging on, even if the management […]
Been a long time since I did a shaggy cat story. You all know Zoë, my cat. My little princess. My sweet faced little adorable furball. My lovely little, silver-haired darling. Otherwise known as “The Bitch”. Zoë is a bird friendly cat, which means that she stays indoors at all times. We have a large, […]