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Disney Killed A Mermaid! [WeirdThingsTV]
Assassin Bug Uses Aggressive Mimicry To Catch Spiders
A species of assassin bug, Stenolemus bituberus, sneaks onto spiders’ webs and pretends to be prey, then captures and eats the spider when it comes to investigate. It was noted that on occasion the ploy of the assassin bug failed and it...
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Wormhole
That cute little star that you’ve pointed out to your son/daughter/neice/ward you’re training to fight crime? It could be an insanely badass wormhole big enough to fit a human or spaceship. So the next time you’re telling the story of the...
Will Wikileaks Publish Cables On UFOs?
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange spoke with The Guardian including this awesome tidbit: Many weirdos email us about UFOs or how they discovered that they were the anti-christ whilst talking with their ex-wife at a garden party over a...
Podcast: Alien Gun Fetish
Jamaican Ghost [Hoax Or Real?]
This news report on a Jamaican Ghost was sent to us today. Our question to you the reader, was this set up from the start or did the news crew genuinely stumble upon an afflicted family? Thanks to Nathan for sending this in. Vote in the...
NASA = Attention Whores [WeirdThingsTV]
We Will Just Walk in Circles When We Are Lost
Researchers from the Multisensory Perception and Action Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany have provided evidence that if you ever become lost in the desert you are more than likely going to...
Real Life Swamp Things
Scientific American takes a good long look at the crossroads between moss and animal: the bryozoan. To celebrate, we are reposting one of the most disgusting bryozoan videos we’ve ever posted. Hooray! [Scientific American]
The Honey At Red Hook
In Red Hook, Brooklyn, a beekeeper noticed that a hive had begun to transform and display mysterious stripes of color in their honey stomachs. Even stranger, instead of honey, the hive began to produce a bright red substance that resembled...
And Now: A Squid Orgy
Squid Run at La Jolla Shores – Nov. 22, 2010 from Walter Chung on Vimeo. via Pharyngula
NASA WILL SHOW US AN IMPRISONED ALIEN OR SOMETHING THIS THURSDAY*
Movie Videos & Movie Scenes at MOVIECLIPS.com *probably not But still, they did release this totally ominous press advisory: NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On...
Is Jupiter’s Evil Twin Hiding At The Edge of Our Solar System?
Scientists have studied a centuries worth of comet data and come to the conclusion that at least 20 percent of visible comets were kicked out of the Oort Cloud by a Jupiter-sized object lurking at the solar system’s outer edge. Eighty...
Scientists Discover Squidworm
U.S. and Filipino scientists have announced the discovery of a new species Teuthidodrilus samae, which they immediately named “squidworm.” It is a flat, eyeless, free-swimming worm with up to ten squid-like appendages. It also has twenty...
Saturn Moon Has Mostly Oxygen Atmosphere
The Cassini space probe recently scanned the atmosphere of Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea, and discovered that it is comprised of 70% oxygen and 30% carbon dioxide. In the past the Hubble Space Telescope has detected thin oxygen layers...
Build Your Own Troll Detector
Are you planning on camping in the wilds of Norway soon? Are you worried that trolls are going to attack your camp and try and feast on your flesh while you sleep? Then perhaps you should build your very own Trolldetektor v.1.0b. The...
Smithsonian Has Pickled Mammoth
“Acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1922, these jars contain preserved muscle tissue taken from the left hind leg of a woolly mammoth uncovered in 1901 by palaeontologist Eugene Pfizenmayer – though they...
Podcast: Terror in the Jungle
Donate Your DNA Now So Your Clone Can Colonize Space Tomorrow
We are nearly positive that this super creepy infomercial for the Synthetic Somatology program of Gemini Somatics is viral marketing for some upcoming video game / movie. Still, it’s pretty well done and represents a fun mystery for you,...
Dude, A New Form Of Light Invented
Seriously though… dude… Just like solids, liquids and gases, this recently discovered condition represents a state of matter. Called a Bose-Einstein condensate, it was created in 1995 with super-cold atoms of a gas, but scientists had...