A man has died after jumping into an icy river in Lancashire in an attempt to save his pet springer spaniel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Since their original publication in the 1920s, the stories of HP Lovecraft have endured and grown into an entire subset of the horror genre unto themselves, with themes of the unavoidable insanity that comes with knowledge and cosmic insignificance that are far more subtle and ultimately terrifying than the average ghost story.
Which makes them great entertainment for eight year-olds — via Comics Alliance
Army ants have a reputation for annihilating everything in their path as they march through the jungle.
But the most complete study of its kind has found that army ants are creators of whole worlds, not destroyers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A spider that was feared extinct in the UK has been photographed for the first time after a new colony of the species was found — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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The local farmers call it a flood; an inundation that happens every 50 years.
Others believe it to be an act of God, an inevitability.
It isn’t water flooding the precious farmland in north-eastern India, but rats.
A once in a generation, gigantic plague of rats, that ruins crops and leaves people starving.
A rat army so big, so mythical, that until now some scientists did not believe it was real. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you were an octopus, would you view the world from eight different points of view? Nine?
The answer may depend on how many brains an octopus has, or, to say it another way, whether the robust bunches of neurons in its coiling, writhing, incredibly handy arms bestow on each of them something akin to a brain. Is an octopus a creature ruled by a single consciousness centered in its large brain, or, by dint of its nerve-infused legs, a collaborative, cooperative, but distributed mind?
The idea of a distributed mind among animals is not new, according to Peter Godfrey-Smith, who focuses his efforts on the philosophy of science. Experiments indicate that when a bird learns a skill using only a single eye, and is later tested while being forced to use the other eye, the learning does not transfer well — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A dog has had a lucky escape off an Adelaide beach after befriending a local sea lion and following him four kilometres offshore — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A search for frogs believed to be extinct has instead led scientists to discover some new ones.
Three species hitherto unknown to science have been found in Colombia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A dog credited with saving her owner’s life in Afghanistan, by barking at a suicide bomber, has been put down by mistake in Arizona after straying and ending up in a pound — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 25-year-old Adelaide man chopped a cat with a shovel and then set it on fire, a court has heard.
Adrian Pomorski, 25, of suburban Brahma Lodge, was granted bail in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday after appearing on one count of ill-treating an animal to cause death — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German court has ruled that tattooing a pony with the Rolling Stones’ famous tongue logo would infringe animal rights law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A koala walked into a bar … no, seriously.
And the bartender hopes he’s coming back because he’s good for business — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Packing all of your belongings into a U-Haul and then transporting them across several states is nearly as stressful and futile as trying to run away from lava in swim fins — via Hyperbole and a Half
A large new species of deep red, glowing squid has been discovered living near undersea mountains in the southern Indian Ocean, scientists announced Monday — via logicalabsurdity.newsvine.com
A new species of large squid with light-producing organs it uses to attract prey has been discovered in the Indian Ocean, a UK researcher says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a future world in which the aquatic creatures of our oceans have seemingly disappeared, a new specimen has emerged from the unknown depths of these deep dark waters – the mechanical octopus — via Etsy
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