Friday, November 05, 2010

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2004 Fred Dibnah died. He liked steam power a lot and got very enthusiastic about it. Dibnah's documentaries about steam power and the industrial revolution helped to re-popularise it among a generation that had mostly forgotten about steam power and was perfectly happy to see irreplaceable relics of Britain's industrial past scrapped or demolished.
And now, the news:

Boa Constrictors Can Have Babies Without Mating, N...
Rats targeted in mass poisoning to save endangered...
Polar bears can't eat geese into extinction
Plastic debris 'killing Adriatic loggerhead turtle...
Man Buys Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Pelt for $5 (via ...
Drongos mimic alarm calls to get a free lunch

Because meerkats are mentioned in the drongo story it gives me an excuse to post one of my favourite viral things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKsSOEto3B0

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