Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Waiting...

...Cats Waiting for Fishermen to return. The Artist is unknown. [via collosal]

Monday, June 24, 2013

OMG the real Facehugger

scientists recently discovered the body of a giant sea spider like organism in antarctic waters. the origin of this species is unknown, and it is unclear whether or not there are more of these terrifying creatures roaming the oceans.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Species Hunt

Knowns, Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns
We’ve identified about 1.7 million species, but millions more remain unidentified (we think). The total number of non-fungal animal and plant species could be as high as 8 or 9 million (maybe). And the ratio of known to unknown differs quite a bit depending on which category of life you’re looking at.
How long will our invertebrate bias go unchecked?!?
And of course, none of this even mentions the microbes …


Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Robot Salamander



It goes by the name Salamandra Robotica II and it mimics a real salamander’s movement by using a digital neural network that instructs it on how to swim, crawl or walk based on the intensity of electrical signals running through “spinal cord” circuits. I know, this is creepy stuff. Hey, if it has a spinal cord like that, I know where to shoot it if it attacks. A remote “brain” laptop mimics the signals that a real salamander brain sends to its spinal cord, letting the robot change speed, direction and gait by triggering an electronic signal. 


[via: technabob]