Animal Thread

yea, because what we need are fucking giant ants.

They’ve created an antbomination!

I read that as “activating ancient ant-cestral genes” and laughed to myself. Sigh. :sad:
:lol:

HAHA

ant that the truth!

so the scientists activated the ‘‘NBA jam TE’’ gene for big head mode. nice.

I do find it abnoxious that the article title says scientists created these ants when they instead just found a way to cause a mutation that can already happen naturally.

Sent from my MOTWX435KT using Tapatalk

[SIZE=4]Three-foot rat found in Foot Locker[/SIZE]

[LEFT]Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083341/The-Beast-Bronx-Three-foot-rat-New-York-City-shoe-shop.html#ixzz1iur53LC3[/LEFT]
[LEFT]

[/LEFT]

Now there are giant rats. End of the world coming soon.

[SIZE=4]Amazing moment a passer-by in Indian city was scalped by a ferocious jungle leopard.[/SIZE]

[LEFT]Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083518/Amazing-moment-passer-Indian-city-scalped-ferocious-jungle-leopard--lived-tell-tale.html#ixzz1iveMvz38[/LEFT]
[LEFT] [/LEFT]
[LEFT]

[/LEFT]
[LEFT]is he wearing a wig?[/LEFT]
[LEFT] [/LEFT]
[LEFT]

[/LEFT]
[LEFT]Photographers and onlookers crowd to see the transquilised animal as it is taken to away for observation at Assam State Zoo.[/LEFT]
[LEFT] [/LEFT]

[LEFT]Two men help one of the three seriously wounded by the leopard that strayed into a home in a bustling residential part of the Indian city of Guwahati[/LEFT]
[LEFT] [/LEFT]
[LEFT]

[/LEFT]
the leopard is taken to Assam state zoo. Attacks by wild animals have increased as nearby jungle has been cut down.

Can you imagine just how sharp those claws were to scalp a grown man like that?

If those giant-headed ants are created by atavism, then the past was really scary.

I loled.

Unless that guy is one hand holding a 4’ wide spatula of some sort that pic is fake as heck.

[media=youtube]S2Jlu6qGNuU[/media]

[media=youtube]4r577ytYTZM[/media]

The touching relationship between a fisherman and a very sociable whale shark

angry lion lashes out inches from girls face

click the the following link to view the video : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084557/Sofia-Walker-3-faces-angry-lion-inches-face-Wellington-Zoo.html#ixzz1j4R0bGUX

The three-year-old girl briefly recoils as the lion, Malik, lashes out in anger

X-rays show ‘mobster’ baboon who terrorised a city had been shot more than 50 times

[SIZE=3]Vets only discovered the number of wounds after the animal, known as Fred :rofl: , was captured and killed by the authorities in Cape Town. [/SIZE]****[SIZE=3]His post mortem was captured on camera for a Channel 4 documentary about the animal, which learned how to unzip bags and steal food from cars and houses despite carrying bullets and shotgun pellets around in his head and body.[/SIZE]


Awww… I love those dopey-looking whale sharks. I wish I was there. :sad:

[SIZE=4]The shrimp that lives in water four times hotter than boiling point[/SIZE]

[LEFT]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2084764/Shrimp-lives-water-times-hotter-boiling-point.html#ixzz1jEymNihY[/LEFT]
[LEFT]

[/LEFT]
[LEFT]Rimicaris hybisae, the world’s deepest known vent shrimp, was found at a depth of 5,000 metres[/LEFT]
[LEFT] [/LEFT]
[LEFT]

[/LEFT]
[LEFT]The vents of Mount Dent are also home to snake-like fish and previously unseen species of snail and a flea-like crustacean called an amphipods[/LEFT]

I’m from (and live on) the Cayman Islands; that’s just off of our dropoff, sometimes called the Cayman Trench. :slight_smile:
Cool to see articles that are so close to home, especially when it comes to new scientific discoveries and all that.