not as cool as it sounds
Posts Tagged environment
Raining Polar Bears
Feb 8
fuck you penguin
Jan 30
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Life – A preview of the series. from Documentally on Vimeo.
I’ve managed to get my hands on a sneak preview of the BBC Natural History Unit’s new blockbuster landmark series, ‘LIFE’ which is due to go out this autumn on BBC1.
It’s planned to be a series of 10 one hour programmes telling the definitive story of life on Earth. The following video clip shows Mike Gunton, the Executive Producer of the series, explaining how the production team intend to build on the awe, spectacle and epic scale of the Planet Earth footage..
fuck you cheetah
Jan 13
don’t drink from pumba’s watering hole
It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant.
Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
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“A gray whale decided to breach between two fishing boats out in Banderas Bay, off of Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s coast,” writes photographer Lea Wheeler. “We were told we might see some gray whales but did not expect to see one breach just a few yards from our boat. The winter and spring are good times to see the whales in this area.”
No more males in this species, they reproduce asexually
Ant Has Given Up Sex Completely, Researchers Confirm
“Animals that are completely asexual are relatively rare, which makes this is a very interesting ant,” says Rabeling, an ecology, evolution and behavior graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin. “Asexual species don’t mix their genes through recombination, so you expect harmful mutations to accumulate over time and for the species to go extinct more quickly than others. They don’t generally persist for very long over evolutionary time.”
this makes me a sad panda
Dec 11
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this is my favorite part of the article hahaha: Using a combination of superior brain power and brute force, the highly-intelligent orcas are able to catch and eat what many think of as the ocean’s top predators.
i dunno who was responsible for writing that but sharks get no respect =(
from BBC’s show “Life”…unfortunately, BBC disabled the embedding for the youtube video, but it is pretty awesome…time lapse of tons of large sea worms, urchins, and sea stars feeding on the corpse of a seal pup: