Photo by Katie Haase/USGS.

Those clever ecologists at the U.S. Geological Survey have found a way to obtain information about wolves that doesn't involve trapping them, collaring them, or shooting them with weird injections -- and bonus, it makes them look like X-MAN SUPERWOLVES. Instead of messing with the animals directly, researchers are just snapping pics with infrared cameras, leading to wicked shots like the one above.

As Wired reports, the sad side of this story is why they need the cameras: The wolves in Yellowstone National Park have caught a form of scabies that causes hair loss.

How many ways do I love this face-mounted hummingbird feeder? It looks like an off-brand Iron Man costume! It lets hummingbirds drink from the bridge of your nose! It's called :--2<:, which is pronounced "Eye to Eye" but is really a pictogram of a long-nosed human and a beaky bird facing off! This video about its origin uses every terrible typeface known to man!

The info below this video on YouTube kinda sums it up: "A group of baby bears stand behind each other and lick each other's heads." How can that NOT be the most amazing video you'll watch today?

A rare cross-sectional glimpse of natural honeycomb construction. (Photo by Max Westby.)

In 2009, lifelong beekeeper Dan Harvey faced an existential crisis when he lost 
much of his honeybee stock to colony collapse disorder (CCD). So the former Vietnam-era Special Forces veteran did what came naturally: He took to the deep dark woods of the Pacific Northwest, searching for answers to his predicament.

Harvey began by hunting for wild and feral bees living near his home in Port Angeles, Wash. (These bees have escaped from commercial colonies and find refuge in the tall timber and glens enveloping the Olympic Peninsula). For years, he crossbred the feral bees he captured with honeybees in order to produce hybridized hives that would be well-suited to the dank climes of the temperate rainforest region.

Photo by arndbergmann.

The tiger quoll is an adorable, carnivorous marsupial, sort of like an extra-cute Tasmanian devil with spots. Like most of the other weird marsupials, they're only found in Australia, and they've been increasingly hard to find in the wild. In the Otway Ranges in southwestern Victoria, there hadn't been a confirmed quoll sighting in more than 10 years -- until last month, when a local homeowner saw one poop outside his laundry room.

Back in 1962, Brendon Grimshaw bought Moyenne Island, in the Seychelles, for £8,000 (which at the time would have been about $22,000). He started living there in 1972, and since that time he's been the island's only permanent resident -- aside from the 120 giant tortoises for whom Grimshaw's island is a sanctuary. The video above features an obnoxious dipwad getting fake-overexcited about everything ("oh my god, there's a TORTOISE on your PORCH!!!!"), but ignore his capering: Grimshaw is genuinely cool.

Back in 2010, Greenpeace filed a Freedom of Information request covering endangered species affected by the Deepwater Horizon spill. They just received a response from NOAA, and it included more than 100 photos. They're disturbing: The ones Greenpeace has released so far show endangered Kemp Ridley's sea turtles, dead and covered in oil.

The photos below the jump are even worse.

We thought that one dog on a bike was exciting. But Keenan Roberts at Buzzfeed knows better. What's more exciting than one dog on a bike? TWENTY DOGS ON TWENTY BIKES.

These two are my favorites:

Turns out the honeybee colonies we've all been so concerned about didn't collapse after all -- they just moved to New Jersey. Specifically, they went to stay at a former bed and breakfast in Cape May, where 30,000 bees were just taken out of the attic.

Oil spill? Pff, whatevs. The new undersea menace is considerably more dangerous, where by "more dangerous" I mean "less dangerous, but  more awesome." That's right, folks: I'm talking about sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.