rats
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Is climate change really driving the ratpocalypse?
You know what rats love? Warmer temperatures.
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There’s no threat too big for New York rats, even climate change
Climate forecast: warmer winters with a chance of rat apocalypse.
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Flood rat is a sign of wet times to come
The flooding in NYC on Tuesday brought out some rare and seemingly genuine (??) pity for a sad, soaked rat who got stuck on a flooded subway platform.
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Ecuador’s dropping 22 tons of poison on the Galapagos to kill 180 million rats
The rats first came to the islands in the 1600s, aboard ships from far away, and on a steady diet of eggs and baby tortoises, lizards, snakes and now-endangered birds species, they multiplied.
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This weird artificial jellyfish is made from the cells of a rat
Watch the video below, and consider this: “Genetically, this thing is a rat,” Harvard biophysicist Kit Parker told Nature News. But, we hear you saying, that is not a rat! It’s a jellyfish! Sorta — but it’s made from silicone and the muscle cells of a rat’s heart. When the resulting “medusoid” (“jellyfishy”) creature is […]
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David Lynch would like you to stop littering OR ELSE
Perhaps to make up for the bad rap he gave to woods, owls, sycamore trees, and the little pine weasel in Twin Peaks, David Lynch apparently also directed a 1991 PSA about littering. It’s almost exactly what you would expect from a David Lynch PSA about littering — there’s even weird jerky dancing AND coffee! — […]
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Giant, awesome ‘tree lobster’ survived 80 years in hiding
http://vimeo.com/14413689 The Lord Howe Island stick insect, which you see hatching above, looking like an alien struggling out of a human torso, will grow to the size of your hand. It’s also called a “tree lobster” — that’s how big it is. The most incredible thing about these insects, though, is not how big they […]