Gorgeous, massive silver dry brush Octopus hair clip that doubles as brooch! Made from resin. Light-weight for it’s size and holds strong without pulling at your hair. Also has a brooch pin when you want to add it to your bag, jacket or corset — via Etsy
Thomas Young doesn’t like barking dogs. He hates them so much, in fact, that Stanwood Police say he came home drunk on Wednesday night and killed his roommate’s three mixed-breed puppies. Though Young, 56, is claiming he doesn’t know how the puppies died, the cops say they found him with blood on his hands and shirt and three no-longer-barking-dogs in his living room — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Louis the octopus clearly thinks two heads are better than one when it comes to toys.
The 1.8m-wide (6ft) creature is so attached to Mr Potato Head that he turns aggressive when aquarium staff try to remove it from his tank — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sea urchins are likely to be able to adapt to increasingly acidic oceans resulting from climate change, according to new research — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The animal welfare group, Animals Australia, says unprecedented transport of livestock to eastern states from Western Australia is cruelty on a mass scale — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One fifth of animal and plant species are under the threat of extinction, a global conservation study has warned.
Scientists who compiled the Red List of Threatened Species say the proportion of species facing wipeout is rising.
But they say intensive conservation work has already pulled some species back from the brink of oblivion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When you have goodies which need to be hidden and locked away, what better than a squid to protect your stash?
There is no lock to pick nor code to break. Instead, this box uses a strong magnet (included) to release an internal latch, opening the box for only those who know the secret. Instructions on how to use the key are included with the box — via Etsy
On this wretched day, Little Red Riding Hood should have just stayed inside grandma’s house. Even though she seemed to be getting along with the wolf in the photo, below, it looks like it was all set up by the furry beast. By the looks of the black and white shots, the wolf premeditated the whole ordeal…
Even though it’s obvious that these photos were digitally enhanced by Israeli Shlomi Nissim, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell that if the scenes weren’t so outrageous. The quality of the shots is very high — via My Modern Met
If you’re thinking about raising chickens, there are a few ways to go about it. You could build a retro Modern Coop or Quonset Coop. Or, you could build a boxy coop with a green roof, like this one pictured here and featured in Dwell. It’s framed with two-by-fours, insulated, sheathed with oriented strand board, covered in reclaimed cedar, ventilated with two upper windows, and topped with native landscaping, according to Miyoko Ohtake. — via Jetson Green
As far back as Aristotle, naturalists have wondered why the females of a strange group of octopuses sport a thin, papery shell when plenty of their tentacled cousins are essentially naked, letting all their slime hang out.
Now, observations indicate the so-called Argonaut octopus uses the outer shell to trap an air bubble, allowing her to control her buoyancy in open water and move along with ease — via Our Amazing Planet
It hasn’t been seen in Strangford Lough for 30 years — and it could be another 30 before it’s spotted again.
Scientists probing the shores of the lough found a tiny cuttlefish not seen since the 1980s, so they decided to hand it to the aquarium at Exploris in Portaferry.
But the intrepid cephalopod made a daring Great Escape, squeezing its way down the drain of the tank where it was being held — and vanished without trace once more into the waters of Strangford Lough — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This octopus blanched almost entirely white as it scooted from one coral head to another.
Flickr user Lucy Lou (AKA cartoonist Lucy Knisley) models the awesomesauce squid suit her roommate, Nora Renick-Rinehart, made — via boingboing
The UN Environment Programme is turning to the wiki-world in an attempt to improve protection of the natural one.
Its new venture – protectedplanet.net – aims to help people visit little-known protected areas, so generating revenue and improving knowledge about them — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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