This crocheted octopus is 5″ tall, made of Nylon yarn. It is very cute — via Etsy
Classical take on the Kraken vs the Ship — via deviantART
Three healthy Pallas’ Cat kittens (two males and one female) were born on 8 June 2011 at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden following a laparoscopic oviductal artificial insemination (AI) procedure conducted by scientists from the Cincinnati Zoo’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW). This pregnancy and birth are the first ever in Pallas’ Cats from artificial insemination — via ZooBorns
Fine art print on bright white, matte, ultra smooth, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using an advanced digital dry ink method to ensure vibrant image quality — via Society6
Orright, Matey, if this isn’t the quintessential Steampunk pirate necklace, I’ll eat my hat? Or for that matter, it would be perfect with Victorian sci-fi, grunge, industrial, post-apocalyptic or nihilistic genres — via Etsy
The RSPCA and Animals Australia have released new footage they say shows the horrendous slaughter
of cattle in Turkey.
The latest video, screened at a press conference in Canberra this morning, came as two separate bids to end the live animal export trade failed to win the support of a single government or opposition MP — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The first litter of cheetah cubs to ever be born at Chester Zoo have stepped outside for the first time. Born five weeks ago, in late June, the four rare Northern cheetah cubs ventured into the great outdoors — via ZooBorns
A tiny kitten is recovering nicely after it was nabbed by a red-tailed hawk and dropped from the sky into a Vancouver Island landfill.
The feral black-and-white cat was found in the Nanaimo dump on Monday and taken to an SPCA shelter, where staff named it Hawk — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Giving animals legal ownership of their habitat and affording them standing before the courts may hold the key to protecting biodiversity, an Australian researcher says.
Australia is one of only 17 countries recognised as being mega-diverse, but it also has one of the highest extinction rates, with around 126 species of plants and animals sent to extinction in the past 200 years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new type of eel that inhabits an undersea cave in the Pacific Ocean has been dubbed a living fossil
because of its primitive features.
It is so distinct, scientists created a new taxonomic family to describe its relationship to other eels.
The US-Palauan-Japanese team say the eel’s features suggest it has a long and independent evolutionary history stretching back 200m years.
Details appear in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Penguin I
Typewriter parts
3”x5”x13”
2011
— via Jeremy Mayer
After 63 days of gestation, a rare Sand Cat Kitten was born at Israel’s Zoological Centre Tel Aviv Ramat Gan – Safari. Once plentiful in numbers in the dunes of Israel, the Sand Cat has become extinct in the region. This is Safari Zoo’s first successful Sand Cat birth and it is hoped this kitten will join Israel’s Sand Cat Breeding Program in order to help reintroduce the species into the wild — via ZooBorns
Hanna Wendt, a tissue engineer in the Department of Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery at Medical School Hannover in Germany, along with her colleagues, recently published a study that suggests spider silk may hold the key to creating artificial skin for burn victims and other patients requiring skin grafts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I glanced in the rearview mirror just in time to realize a distracted driver in a pickup truck was barrelling down the hill behind me. I braced for impact.
The dramatic sounds of metal twisting and glass shattering shook me, but I was more stunned than hurt. My dog, Bailey, and I had been on our way to the park, to practice the commands he had recently mastered in beginning obedience class: sit
, stay
, and heel
.
It took me a few minutes to realize that Bailey, who had been riding in the back of my station wagon, had jumped through the broken back window and run off into the woods, trailing his leash — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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