Link: Phylo Game - Sadistically Cladistic Game

http://phylogame.org/

Link: Wolbachia Hijack Leaves and Offspring Sex

This is about a moth larva that has bacteria that keeps leaves green during the fall so it can eat them fresh:
http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2010/04/au.html

This is more about the bacteria Wolbachia that causes this.  Super common bacteria and is involved in other freaky stuff like turning males into females so that they get passed  on into the next generation (since they won't get into sperm, only eggs).  Awesome! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolbachia  

Link: Tutle Breaths Underwater by Tongue

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8693000/8693794.stm

Link: First Synthetic Life

I'm pretty sure this was done on a mountain top with lighting shooting around the room.  Muhahaha!...and I find it hilarious that they put a secret coded message in its DNA.  O, nerds with a 20 million dollar budget.  haha.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18942-immaculate-creation-birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Links: "The World's Most Terrifying Penises"

Here's a little more fuel for misandry (like we need anymore).  Prepare to feel wildly intrigued and profoundly traumatized all at the same time.  Appreciate the expediency and harsh pragmatism that evolution can sometimes have (thank God for the soft pragmatic side, too!).








Also: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827893.700-why-incest-among-animals-cuts-male-sexual-aggression.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Fish with a hook for a penis: http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/mklangerhans/

Chimp penis spikes: http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2011/03/11/friday-weird-science-penis-spines-what-are-they-really/

Link: Caucasians=Neanderthal Hybrid, Asian=Erectus Hybrid, Africans=Pure Breed?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627603.600-neanderthals-not-the-only-apes-humans-bred-with.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Link: Pharyngeal Jaw--Awesome Adaptation

What do you do when you don't have hands to help you control your food while you eat?  Behold:

Link: Hagfish Slime--Awesome Adaptation

Worth watching, but they disabled embedding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcOqGV0Kcp0

Link: Worm Escape Inversion--Awesome Adaptation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pokerchampdaniel/3136421527/

Link: Top 50 Freakiest Animals

http://www.jamesgunn.com/2009/07/02/evolution-fucked-your-shit-up-the-worlds-50-freakiest-animals/

Link: 'You Are Here' Size Comparison of the Universe

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=46916

Link: 600 Million Years in 5 Minutes

Link: The Human Camera--A Savant's Genius