I swear, there’s a moment in this video where the octopus looks like it’s trying to get intimate with Steve Leonard.
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Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I swear, there’s a moment in this video where the octopus looks like it’s trying to get intimate with Steve Leonard.
I must thank the reader known to me only as CAC for sending me DVDs of the Inside Nature’s Giants programs. I’ve been enjoying the dissections of an elephant and a whale in the evening — most of the organisms I cut into are millimeters long and require very sharp, thin instruments, so it’s interesting to see ones that require hip waders and backhoes.
You should all lobby your local PBS stations and tell them these would be wonderful additions to the lineup! You might also suggest that broadcasting them during the dinner hour might not be recommended.
Don’t tell Jerry, but aren’t pictures of baby kitties a cheap way to get some eyeballs? At least it’s a nice story about a few animals coming back to the wilderness.
Everyone is sending me this video of a strange pulsing blob found in a North Carolina sewer inspection. It is officially creepy and disgusting, and someone from the SciFi channel is racing to make creature feature about it right now, I’m sure.
I have no idea what it is, but the explanations that it is a colony of either tubifex worms or bryozoans sounds reasonable. I want to see a sample of that thing put under a microscope.
You are now free to make jokes about <despised NC figure>’s colonoscopy exam in the comments.
The best explanation so far is from Deep Sea News: they’re almost certainly tubifex worms, and they have a comparison video to demonstrate it.
There is a cool program available in the UK only titled Inside Nature’s Giants, which is meant to be taken literally — they actually record the dissection of megafauna. The first episode is about delving into the guts of an elephant.
The bad news is that it isn’t available outside Channel 4’s broadcast area, so I can’t watch it at home or here in Germany. You lucky Brits can tune in right now, though. Maybe it will make its way to youtube soon.
The good news is that it is also not available in Smell-O-Vision.
