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Sabrina Imbler

A horrible AI-generated image of a rat with an enormous cock and balls

Creaturefector

The Brief And Wondrous Life Of The AI Giant-Penised Rat, Explained

A round stingray (Urolophus halleri) I photographed in shallow water at Bolsa Chica wetlands (Southern California). The clouds of sand around the eyes and and body were formed as the stingray flapped and positioned deeper in the sand, expelling water. You can see the spiracles behind the eyes.

Charlotte The Ray Did NOT Have Sex With A Shark, So Stop Asking!

Kelsey McKinney

Barry Petchesky

Patrick Redford

David Roth

Whale stranded at Winterton, 1857. 'This fine specimen of the whale tribe was driven ashore at Winterton by the gales which visited the coast of Norfolk...When the whale found himself upon land he roared loudly, and he struggled most lustily to regain the deep...The colour of the outer coat is dark brown on the back, vanishing off towards the body of a bluish grey. The body is white; also about two feet of the nose and baleen is white; the rest of the outer part is black. We understand that the skin, head, and tail were removed from the carcase for exhibition. The whale is stated to weigh about 25 tons'. From &quot;Illustrated London News&quot;, 1857.

Defector Reads A Book

From Hell’s Heart We Blog At Thee: Let’s Chat About ‘Moby-Dick’

A little yellow frog with a tiny white mushroom sprouting out of its side

Mushroom Growing On A Frog? Now That’s A Toadstool

The Little Fish With A Mouth That Defies All Logic

a photo of a lobster named Currant, a split blue lobster

Meet The Eight Celebrity Lobsters Of Biddeford, Maine

a sea otter eating a crab in Monterey Bay

Hungry Sea Otters Can Change The World

Shark Is Maybe Baby

An African grey parrot looking at the camera

Birdfector

Let The British Parrots Say “Fuck”

An illustration of two dung beetles rolling a ball of dung

Dung Beetle Study Suggests That Sisyphus Would Have Appreciated A Buddy

a stuffed specimen of a swamp antechinus, which is a small brown marsupial, against a green background

The Sex Fest Keeps Getting Worse and Worse

hanging sculptures by Ruth Asawa in the tower of the de young museum

Arts And Culture

In The Shadows Of Ruth Asawa

Low angle view of moon against clear sky at night

Science

Is There A Better Way To Honor Your Dog Than Littering The Moon?

Wolf Spiders, Actually, Are All Around

a grid of ultrasound images of my (now former) breasts may they RIP!

Life Lessons

Even Good Health Insurance Is Bad; Or, How I Got Top Surgery With A Family History Of Breast Cancer

A blue-green iridescent wasp with a pointy pointy rear

The Year In Parasitic Wasps

A flattened scroll of lead with words etched on it: “sathanas taleke belzebuk hinrik berith”

This Month In Curse Tablets

Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, believed to be the oldest reptile living on earth with and alleged age of 185 years, opens his mouth in a kind of yawn as he stands on grass

This Is So Stupid

This Week In Turtles

A female Tasmanian Devil yawns in an enclosure at the Night Safari Singapore nocturnal zoo in Singapore o

What If You Kept Your Baby Teeth Your Entire Life?

This photo illustration created on December 11, 2023 shows emojis on a smartphone screen in Washington, DC. Too many cats, not enough crustaceans: The current emoji catalog doesn't accurately represent the breadth of biodiversity seen in nature -- and that hurts conservation efforts, according to scientists. An analysis published on December 11, 2023 in the journal iScience found that while animals are well represented by the current emoji catalog, plants, fungi, and microorganisms get short shrift. (Photo by)

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at the Extinction: Not the End of the World exhibition at The Natural History Museum on February 5, 2013 in London, England. More than 99 percent of species that once roamed the planet are now extinct. Organisers of the exhibition hope to show that a diverse range of plants and animals survived. 80 Museum specimens are on display from February 8-8, September 2013.

What Kind Of Future Does De-Extinction Promise?

The Popular Science Logo on a black background

Journalismism

Popular Science Ends And Science Journalism Keeps Shrinking

A brown male golden rocket frog carrying an enormous tadpole on his back

As A Father Of Tadpoles

LAKE FOREST, CA - JULY 16: Dr. Scott Weldy of the Orange County Bird of Prey Center holds a Cooper"u2019s hawk just prior to releasing it near Lake Forest on Thursday, July 16, 2020. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

North American Birds Will No Longer Be Named After People

A close-up of three leg-like appendages of a green caterpillar with orange and black spots