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This is horrifying.

Crabzilla! At 5 Feet Tall, Biggest Known Crab Heads to UK

Pokemon for the real world

I can name the first 150.. so yeah this is a good idea, it would have been a lot better to learn real animals!

Kids can remember hundreds of Pokemon characters but very few animals. The solution? The Phylomon Project is an open source initiative aiming to make Pokemon-type cards for actual animals.

Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica already has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and some genes from algae. Now it turns out that the slug has acquired enough stolen goods to make an entire plant chemical-making pathway work inside an animal body, says Sidney K. Pierce of the University of South Florida in Tampa.

The slugs can manufacture the most common form of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, Pierce reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Pierce used a radioactive tracer to show that the slugs were making the pigment, called chlorophyll a, themselves and not simply relying on chlorophyll reserves stolen from the algae the slugs dine on.

“This could be a fusion of a plant and an animal — that’s just cool,” said invertebrate zoologist John Zardus of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C.

Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant | Wired Science | Wired.com

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“ The Buddhists say we come back as animals and they refer to them as lesser beings. Well, animals aren’t lesser beings, they’re just like us. So I say f—k the Buddhists

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Rare tongue-eating parasite found

A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast.

Disgusting. It eats the fish’s tongue and then sits in its place, eating the food the fish catches.

I like to point to creatures like these and then say to a creationist “So what was your loving God thinking of when it created this?”. It is almost as bad as the Parasitic Wasp.