Science Watch: How to Kill a Seal
Old water! Wind maps! Dry bugs! Fur seals! Science books! Star explosions! Tiny particles! Sea snails! And other wet and wondrous creatures! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—with scrutiny!
Frog-Phobic Man Awarded $1.6 Million After Property Floods, Fills With Frogs
When Paul Marinaccio was a child living in Italy, he had a terrifying encounter with a neighbor. He remembers wandering from the vineyard where his parents worked to a nearby farm to pick figs. While there, he encountered a man, who angrily chased the young Paul from the property while, for some reason, holding…
An "athlete's foot from hell" is killing all the world's coolest frogs. Damn.
Andrea Peyser Would Never Break Linda Evangelista's Heart
"Let's teach horny frogs to zip it up" is the headline today on the professional newspaper column written by Andrea "Sexxx Sexxx Sexxx Sexxx Embittered Tabloid Lady" Peyser. Seems like a good headline for someone whose primary interests are anger and frog cocks. (Andrea Peyser.) What is in this column, today?
Damn, This Is One Tiny Frog
Check out this frog. That is one small frog, huh? On a dime, all, daaaamn, what is this enormous metal disk I am on in his tiny high-pitched frog voice. The scientists who discovered this guy couldn't even hear his tiny voice. "It was particularly difficult to locate Paedophryne amauensis," says frog-discover Chris…
Scientists Will Not Stop Until We're All Lizard Monsters
Monster making! Russian warming! Frog mountains! Bat extinction! Multiple sclerosis! Hurricane season! Quantum entanglement! Pet meds! And Polish geologists! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch your science—while screwing in a light bulb, all alone!
Proof that if You Kiss a frog it Does NOT Turn into a Prince
This scientist licks frogs and salamanders like they're a tub of Ben & Jerry's, in order to determine what they are secreting is "foul" or not. For a video by Nat Geo, this is certainly an old-fashioned approach.
Financially Doomed Greece Beset by Plague of Frogs
"A carpet of frogs" covered a Thessaloniki highway today, forcing closings for two hours. People are guessing they came from a lake nearby, but we know the truth. Hide your firstborns and blood your doors everyone, the lord's a'coming.
New Species Discovered in 'Lost World,' Most Are Cute
The very endearing results of a 2008 expedition to New Guinea's Foja Mountains have been released. The recently-discovered species include the smallest known wallaby and a frog with a nose. [Time; pic, from Foja in 2007, via AP]
Frog Cinema Turns into Freaky Frog Voicebox
This frog starts out like any other... slimey and jumpy. Oddly patient as it has its face shoved up against the lens, only to unleash the most unfroglike noise ever. I think its real, too.
Charles Darwin Would Not Be Impressed By This Frog
Today, proof that people aren't the only ones capable of humiliating internet failures! (Amphibians with an appetite are, too, apparently.)
Frog's Legs Drop It Like It's Hot
As a kid, it was really fun to put salt on a slug (shut up, PETA) and watch it melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. Well putting salt on frog's legs yields much freakier, and sexier results.
