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And Now: Extreme Evolutionary Mimicry
This treehopper insect has developed an absolutely insane helmet that looks like an aggressive species of ant. There are more of these over at New Scientist. [New Scientist via io9]
Alligator Does Not Respect The Police
Florida is where the magic happens. Also, don’t turn your back on the wildlife. [Jalopnik]
Dr. Ian Malcolm Is Pissed: All-Female Lizard Species Created In Lab
Henry Wu: You’re implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will… breed? Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I’m simply saying that life, uh… finds a way. Scientists looking to create a species of all-female lizards have finally succeeded....
Ant The Size Of Hummingbird Fossil Discovered In Wyoming
Imagine an ant so large it could tear your flesh. Now imagine an entire colony of them descending upon you in your sleep. You wake up almost instantly as the shifting weight of a cadre of insect killers disturbs your dreams. Terror creeps...
Was Osama Bin Laden The Same Height As Bigfoot? Yes! Probably!
A very careful analysis from Loren Coleman says that Sasquatch and Osama Bin Laden were most likely around the same height. Spoiler Alert: they were both a littler shorter than we thought. Also, Bigfoot survived Osama Bin Laden. That makes...
Unknown Creature Tied In Ropes Washed Up
A 55-foot long, unknown sea creature has washed up on the beaches of Guangdong, China tied up in ropes. Did it lose an epic battle with Santiago or did it just become entangled in the trash of the ocean? What do you think? The fish is...
Beastie Boys Play Their Entire New Album On A Sasquatch’s Boom Box In Madison Square Garden, Post To YouTube
Seriously. The whole album. Boom box. Center court at the most famous arena in the world. Sasquatch. [YouTube]
Podcast: Death Thy Name Is Chupy
Andrew describes a harrowing trip into the woods where he comes face to face with a real Chupacabra. The Boys get into an extremely nerdy screaming match about the relative merits of going to Mars or building a Space Elevator. Justin is...
Eternal Sunshine On Your Spotless Mind: New Breakthrough In Memory Erasure
Did Space X just show its secret plans for a mission to Mars?
Space X released a video today showing their plans and capabilities for their Dragon space capsule. Besides the ability to ferry crew to and from orbit and to the International Space Station, Elon Musk, head of Space X has said that the...
Chupacabra Skeleton Under The Floor
Workers unearthed a skeleton from under the floor of an “sinister house” and the first thing that crossed their minds was “Chupacabra”. It apparently has a cat-like head and a rat-like tail and is terrifying the neighborhood. “In the city...
SETI Shuts Down Allen Telescope Array
SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is out of money and is no longer listening for alien signals. Aliens, you win this round; you may commence snooping around the solar system and broadcasting at will. In an April 22 letter to...
The Glow Men Of Chile
Last week we had the very emo Black Eyed Kids which are apparently terrorizing the suburbs of America. Today we hear about a much more flamboyant breed of paranormal beings with seemingly more benign powers of influence. The Glow Men of...
President Kennedy’s UFO Diplomacy With USSR Revealed
Recently declassified documents have stirred up one of my absolute favorite conspiracy crossbreeds: JFK was killed as part of a UFO coverup. More specifically, a new book claims to have found actual paper trail on communication Kennedy had...
First Scientifically Confirmed Poisonous Birds
This is from last year, so it is not new information or breaking news, but I am just hearing about this and it is fantastic. There are poisonous birds that are flying around on this planet. The Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous), Variable...
South African Town Plagued By Shapeshifter
The South African town of Steytlerville is reportedly being haunted by a shape-shifting creature. It has been reported as shifting between a man to a pig and then into a bat. Police have been called in, and they have asked the residents to...
My Encounter with the Chupacabra: Weird Things EXCLUSIVE!
Our eyes locked. Each one of us trying to stare down the other. A mortal man versus a cryptological enigma. My goal – satisfying scientific curiosity. His goal – to hide in the shadows until his blood rage send him into the night in search...
The Man Who Will Bring Us To Mars (WeirdThingsTV)
Man Named “Iceman” Could Be Scientific Proof We Control Our Immune Responses With Our Brain
Wim Hof is called the Iceman. He runs up mountains like Kilimanjaro in only shorts, he sits in buckets of ice for record amounts of time and is genuinely a worldwide, five-star badass. Now, you might be able to add scientific proof that...
Roller Coaster of Death
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series...