i shouldn’t have stayed away so long
I swear to G - I did a google image search for “eating hashbrown casserol,” and this is what came up.
A research expedition to Antarctica to study the region’s octopus life has returned with descriptions of four new species, and the first known sub-zero venoms.
“Antarctic octopus venom works at temperatures that would stop other venoms in their tracks,” said biochemist Bryan Fry of the University of Melbourne, who led the expedition.
Antarctic octopuses eat a wide variety of animals, from clams to fish. They catch their prey with their tentacles and use their venom to kill them, much like snakes.
The venoms are being studied as potential sources of pain-killers, Fry said, because they work on the nervous system. So far, analysis of the venom has revealed two toxins that are new to science.
The scientists still don’t know what biochemical tricks the octopuses use to keep their venom working at freezing temperatures.
Billy the 16-year-old eagle owl is kept cool by his owner Mick Warrior in Havant, Hants
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Colorful Social Commentary of the Day: Lisa Frank meets the BP oil spill in Justin White’s “the Frank has hit the fan.”
Oh no! Markie!
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JESUS PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERS THE MOFFATTS?!?!?!
They were country chipmunks, and then Gilly Gillman came along and ripped their lil asses off. I can remember watching this video WAY back when I was a youngblood, and even then I knew that girl in the video was way too hot for those freaks.
AND My Norwegian penpal in 7th grade used to get me to send her pics of them all the time. Weird, right??



