Showing posts with label animal oddities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal oddities. Show all posts

Saturday, June 6, 2009

World's Smallest Chameleon



The Brookesia Minima is the world's smallest species of chameleon. This one is just half an inch. Found on the rainforest floor of Nosy Be Island off the north-west coast of Madagascar, females tend to be larger than males.

See more of "The World's Smallest Animals."


From Oddee.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Another visit to Snopes.com

It's a lot of fun to visit Snopes and read the incredibly outrageous crapola that people actually believe is true and in many cases, spend an inordinate amount of effort and time trying to convince others it's true. If you've ever been "victimized" by a chain email promoting some dire warning or desperate plea based on complete malarkey and you've dared to hit "Reply All" or post on a forum the truth and nothing but the truth, you know you risk becoming Public Enemy Number One. People are in love with their legends, after all. Only a meanyhead would insist on telling the truth.

So with pure meanyheadedness in mind, here's another smattering of "stuff" that Snopes either confirms or denies. You'll have to visit the webpage for that particular claim to see its full answer.

CLAIM: "Newspaper reporter falls for the old 'Heywood Jablome' funny name gag." ANSWER

CLAIM: "Geraldo Rivera was born Jerry Rivers but changed his name to appeal to Latino viewers." ANSWER

CLAIM: "An Oregon girl's message-in-a-bottle was found by a boy in Hawaii." ANSWER

CLAIM: "Girl impales herself on gearshift lever after being slipped some Spanish Fly by her boyfriend." ANSWER

CLAIM: "A speeder caught by photo radar mails the police a picture of money to pay his fine." ANSWER

CLAIM: "Quick-thinking cop has a bit of fun with a drunk stuck in the snow by pretending to run alongside his car." ANSWER

CLAIM: "As a teenager, Colin Powell learned to speak Yiddish while working in a Jewish-owned baby equipment store in New York." ANSWER

CLAIM: "A foreign family unknowingly consumes the ashes of a relative shipped to them for burial." ANSWER

CLAIM: "A swelling on a girl's cheek breaks open and disgorges hundreds of baby spiders." ANSWER

CLAIM: "A vengeful co-worker made it his practice to urinate into the office coffee pot." ANSWER

CLAIM: "Service station customers are getting stuck by HIV-loaded syringes affixed to gas pump handles." ANSWER

CLAIM: "Venomous snakes lurk in the ball pits of fast food restaurants." ANSWER

CLAIM: "Man high on drugs slices off pieces of his face and feeds them to his dogs." ANSWER

CLAIM: "Infants have died or suffered debilitating respiration problems after aspirating baby oil." ANSWER

CLAIM: "The charred remains of a scuba diver were discovered in a tree after a forest fire." ANSWER

Monday, May 25, 2009

Calf Born With 7 Legs, 2 Spines



A seven-legged calf was born at a veterinary hospital in Steamboat Springs, Colo., on Thursday, according to the Steamboat Pilot & Today.


The staff at the Steamboat Veterinary Hospital said the Black Angus calf, which was delivered by cesarean section, had two spines but one head. One leg also had two hooves.


The calf lived for only about 10 minutes.


Veterinarian Lee Meyring says the birth was an incomplete splitting of the embryo into twins.


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