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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on December 6, 2010 at 4:55pm

That's cool. I can't believe they caught that on film like that (that bit towards the end).

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Permalink Reply by T A A on January 3, 2011 at 6:47pm

Wow, beautiful, that is what should be encouraged to happen to our own bodies after death! Instead of embalming fluids and sealed caskets :(

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on January 3, 2011 at 6:48pm

Oooohh! Indeed. Great idea. Since we don't have vultures here, and can't do sky burial, we could do ant burial. Awesome!

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on June 18, 2011 at 9:28pm

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Permalink Reply by T A A on December 18, 2011 at 2:16am

"World record for the fastest predatory strike in the animal kingdom"

While the Society To Save Pluto as a Planet was battling the International Astronomical Union over the semantics of roundness, there was another scientific throw-down brewing in Berkeley, one that could only be solved with a $60,000 video camera shooting 100,000 frames per second. The contenders were the Myrmecologists versus the Stomatophore Researchers, and when it was over, there was a new world record for the fastest predatory strike in the animal kingdom and a film that, if we meditated, we’d meditate to. The results: the fastest predatory strike in the animal kingdom is no longer the brutal claw punch of the peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus). The peacock mantis can punch its raptorial appendage at over sixty miles an hour, producing a force one thousand times greater than its body mass, capable of shattering snail shells, pâté-ing small fish, and creating a cavitation wave known to crack aquarium glass three feet away. But the mandibles of Odontomachus bauri, a.k.a. the trap-jaw ant, are faster.
The trap-jaw ant has a pair of jagged scythes growing from its head that, when triggered by tiny hairs, can smash down at 145 cricket-decapitating miles an hour. The motion pushes the boundaries of physics, and often causes the ants to do a thing not unlike flying.*

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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on December 21, 2011 at 3:00pm

 

Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature's most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it? Hayashi explains at the DNA level -- then shows us how this super-strong, super-flexible material can inspire.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on December 22, 2011 at 11:49am

 

In a wildlife video that’s making the rounds today, an explorer treking through Uganda’s Bwindi National Park has a hair-raising encounter with a pack of wild baby gorillas as a big male Silverback watches silently.

Permalink Reply by T A A on December 22, 2011 at 4:29pm

It brakes my heart to think how these human friendly gorillas will be easily poachable. "(

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on April 10, 2012 at 2:32pm

Live elephant birth caught on camera.

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