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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Moar critters

Moment of Science: Squirrels and Snakeskin: Have you ever heard that some squirrels eat snakeskin? Maybe you haven't, but it's true. [via the always awesome, Shadi Petrosky]
Nifty ideas for ratfolk to deal with the plethora of deadly snake-inspired predators (as well as naga and nagaji).
How A Dog Has Lived For Eleven Thousand Years—In Other Dogs: A dog that was born 11,000 years ago stumbled across the elixir of life, and is still alive today. It didn’t find immortality through a diet of mung beans or daily doses of resveratrol. Instead, that ancient dog employed a more radical solution. Some of its cells became cancerous and invaded other dogs, and those dogs then spread its cells to still other dogs. That ancient dog lives on today in the bodies of countless dogs around the world today. [via artist extrordinaire, Todd Lockwood]
What about a sentient cancer that lives on parasitically in its hosts, influencing their behavior to interact peaceably and/or violently with others to spread communicably? Maybe it also affects its hosts reproductive abilities, helping to spawn many of those “impossible” crossbreeds, amalgams, abominations, and aberrations? Wizards can't be responsible for all of it.

(See also the disturbing case of Henrietta Lacks.)

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