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Shark Angels are girls who swim with sharks in bikinis to prove they're docile creatures. That is all. More »
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For a National Geographic documentary, producer Peter Chinn used a combination of dimensional ultrasound scans, tiny cameras, and computer graphics to create the following images of baby animals. (WARNING: graphic images inside!) More »
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It's a good thing that the Borneo rainbow toad was recently rediscovered in a "nearby area of Western Sarawak", because that means we can all stare at it while listening to an old record played backward: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5821868&view=rss&microfeed=true Meet the female insect who is able to use her own sperm to procreate — which is quickly causing a serious shortage of males: More »
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Come one, come all to visit the half male, half female butterfly that hatched two weeks ago during the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London! More »
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Wow, it must be nice to have a spare Caribbean island lying around. Sir Richard Branson — known for Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Mobile and space tourism company Virgin Galactic — has come up with a "radical idea" to save lemurs. The only place the endangered primates live in the wild is Madgascar, and illegal logging there is a threat to the critters. Branson wants to create a colony of lemurs on Moskito Island, one of two private isles he owns in the British Virgin Islands. Penelope Bodry-Sanders of the Lemur Conservation Foundation (!) isn't sure about the plan, saying, "It could be a brilliant or terrible idea but we just don't know yet." Yeah, relocating animals from the Indian Ocean to the Caribbean, where the plants and bugs and weather are totally different could be a disaster. But. Here's what is a good idea: A Fantasy Island slash Temptation Island vacation involving a cruise through the Caribbean and a visit to Lemur Island, where one can quietly observe lemurs being fucking awesome, but one is not allowed to interfere with their frolicking. If one gets too close to a lemur, one must spend one month working on Lemur Island, cutting up fruit to be served to lemurs. Million dollar idea, right there. More »
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Three people and one dog in West Boca Raton, Florida have been bitten by rabid otters over the course of the last four days. This sounds like the beginning of the weirdest post-apocalyptic zombie movie ever. More »
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A British boa constrictor has had two "virgin births" sans mate — despite multiple male suitors. The 22 offspring, all female and caramel-colored, are genetically unique: "Essentially they are half clones of their mother," says one researcher. More »
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The NY Times tackles the question and finds: not really. While there's some evidence that mosquitoes are attracted to estrogen, there's more evidence that they just go for surface area, giving men the, um, edge. They also dig sweat. [NYT] More »
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If the researchers had seen this site, they would already know what's up. [Live Science, Things That Are Doing It] More »
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Product reviews for this kitsch shirt are now an Internet Thing. Writes one reviewer, "You don't put this shirt on your torso you put it on your soul." In Amazon's also-viewed autosuggestion box: Joe The Plumber: Fighting For The American Dream. (Just don't spill Tuscan Whole Milk on either.) [BBC] More »
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Hot on the heels of the revelation that gentlemen do, indeed, prefer blondes comes the latest from the Cosmo Institute of Science (okay, it's actually the University of Rochester in this case): men are attracted to the color red! The men who participated in a study overwhelmingly found they were more attracted to a woman sporting a red shirt than a blue — although they denied that color had an impact on their choices. It's subliminal, you see, having to do with ovulation and baboons. It might also interest you to know that, according to the BBC, red "has traditionally been linked with romantic and sexual matters, from red hearts on Valentine's Day, to red-light districts." So, what have we learned lately? To get a man, we need to dye our hair blonde, don a red dress, go off the pill, and stop wearing deodorant. I'm feeling think-y and here's a study I want to see: how much of an impact do these studies have on our behavior? More »
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As you may have heard, having a baby hurts. Natural childbirth advocates have long argued for the lemonade benefits of labor pain, claiming that it adds to the experience and can even result in sexual pleasure and aid in the hormone release that helps a mother bond with her baby. However, a new study, discussed in Salon, suggests that in fact the excrutiating hours of pain are really a vestigial response that serve no actual function. Great; let's go tell that to Milla Jovovich, who just spoke about her 72-hour labor! So why does everybody still hurt? More »
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It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, Rich and I got help from our pal Sasha Frere-Jones, to tackle problems like reclusive behavior, definitions of words, and all the other usual sex stuff. Got a burning question? Send it to potpsych@jezebel.com. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.) More »
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