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Element-ary school!

Oxygen from Christopher Hendryx on Vimeo.

poor helium

tywkiwdbi

Some fishermen accidentally caught a megamouth shark in their nets. it died while they were trying to get it out, so they ate it. Yes. Why waste meat? PS this species of shark has been seen 41 times. Ever. This was the 41st sighting.

Megamouths are filterfeeders and basically hang out with their mouths open to grab plankton and other tiny tasty items.

Philippine fishermen net and eat rare megamouth shark guardian.co.uk
Sunday smörgåsbord tywkiwdbi

watch and learn

Dr. Wainwright’s lab at UC Davis has a you tube channel with slow-mo videos of fish being fed.

wtf_nature

A little fishy in the depths of the Central Californian coast called the barreleye is getting attention for its SEE THROUGH HEAD.

The little guy hangs out in super deep water. The head’s lack of visibility was unknown to scientists until recently when Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have been following the fish with robots. Though the fish has been identified since 1939, it was assumed the head was not so bulbous when seen out of the water, where it would deflate and be gross from being dead and under less pressure. The eyes can move around within the head and see through the thin parts of the transparent skin that protects the super-light-collecting eye tubes from stinging tentacles of bad guys — the guys they are stealing food from. Wait a second…

Check out Strange fish has a see-through head msnbc
See-through head fish wtf_nature
Fish has sea-through eyes the sun (UK)

hahahahahaha

My flavor, XXX, is safe, so I donut care! Here is a chart so you don’t get kicked off of your team!

It’s hanging up in locker rooms everywhere! BEWARE THE GUARANA!

Little Faith Mwampe was born with the feet and extra tissue of an unformed twin sister on her bum area. Now that she is 9 months old, the doctors in Zambia will perform surgery to remove what’s left of her sib. Her mom, Mercy Lenganji, is 18 years old. The father of the child rejected her outright and hasn’t been back. To send him hate mail, you can look him up in Zambia. His name is Martin Mwampe.

Mercy’s family have been with her all the way and kept her and the kid strong. Now there’s just waiting for the actual surgery. They have been told Faith will only need one surgery and the rest of recovery will be therapy.

from the UK Telegraph
and wtf_nature

A boy born in Colorado Springs had surgery two and a half months ago to remove a tumor in his brain. His mother’s doctor found fluid in his brain during an ultrasound, and scheduled an emergency c-section to take care of it at 41 weeks (that’s about 9 months anyway). Sam Esquibel was born looking fine and dandy. After confirming the tumor with an MRI, they opened up his head at 3 days old to take care of what appeared to be a tumor. You know, the regular-type mass of cells that shouldn’t be where it is. They found this little guy inside:

The tumor had a this fully formed foot and thigh, another foot, and a hand. Keep in mind these are super small, as they were removed from a small tumor in a baby’s head. It’s been two and a half months, and Sam is almost totally healed at this point. He has some physical therapy to be scheduled for his neck and head, but besides that, he’s okay!

reported by the Denver Post
AP release
wtf nature

Back in 2004, a sperm whale had been found beached and dying on the shores of Taiwan. It died by the time help arrived, so they were moving the body to the Shi-Tsao Natural Preserve to be examined at the order of Professor Wang Chien-ping after the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan said it would not accept the body.

The body had other plans, choosing to go out with a bang. Literally. The gases within the decomposing giant had built up enough to pop its belly, spilling the stomach and other random organs into the streets of Tainan. Entrails!

From what they could tell, the whale was a 50 ton bull, 17 meters long (~55 feet). National Geographic is playing a documentary this weekend on the event. I could not find a listing for it online, but some person in the wtf_nature community said it is so it must be true.

bbc article on original explosion

yay triforce for posting the link to the How-to wiki.

watch the video! it’s true i tell you!

I already knew Coolio was a nice guy. This just made him cooler.

from triforce.