If we are to believe the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (10 February 2016) the online pornography colossus Pornhub ran a three week charity fundraising promotion, starting on 8 February, to mark World Whale Day on 13 February. The proceeds went to Moclips Cetological Society (“Save the Whales”).
Pornhub’s press release apparently celebrated whales’ sexuality as they — like humans and bonobos — do not limit their horniness to procreation.
The company said that over the three week period it would donate 1 cent to the charity for every 2000 videos played on its ubiquitous free websites. Now that might sound extremely mean, but the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted that in just the first two days the world’s porn consumers had played 532 million videos thus earning the charity $2,660.
Oh, now, come on Evolution! You can’t really create something that looks like this …
Oh, you did!? … Hmmm …
Yes, indeed Evolution did create this beast which looks like an obese foot-long earthworm with a trunk and a spade-shaped tail? And, yes, eyes on the end of it’s handlebars!
It lived 300 million years ago and its fossil was discovered in 1995 by Francis Tully; hence it is known as the Tully Monster or Tullimonstrum gregarium.
However it is only now that scientists are beginning to get to grips with what it really is — a lamprey.
Read more on The Atlantic.
The wombat is a large, solitary and nocturnal relative of the koala, native to Australia. It has poor eyesight but an excellent sense of smell, which is its main navigation aid.
It also has a very strange ability under its belt: its shit comes out in cubes. Yep, unlike other animals which produce cylinders (eg. dogs), pleets (eg. rabbits) or splats (eg. cows) the wombat’s turds really are cube-shaped.
Why? Well it seems it is all down to the physiology and motility of their large intestines. But it turns out it is also a useful attribute to have.
Find the full story over on The Conversation.
Anatoliy Omelchenko of Triangle Tree has designed the Edible Spoon Maker.
It works on the toasted sandwich maker principle and allows you to bake your own edible spoons from either home-made or ready prepared dough in only a few minutes.
In this video Omelchenko demonstrates the device using ready-made biscuit dough:
