About 275 million years ago, the ancestor of today’s cephalopods lost the external shell. It’s not clear why, but it must have been liberating. Now the animals could start exploring places that had been off-limits to their shelled ancestors. Octopuses could slip into rocky crevices, for example, to hunt for prey. On the other hand, losing their shells left cephalopods quite vulnerable to hungry predators. This threat may have driven cephalopods to become masters of disguise and escape. They did so by evolving big brains, the ability to solve new problems, and perhaps look into the future — knowing that coconut or clam shells may come in handy, for example.
Yet intelligence is not the perfect solution for cephalopods, Mr. Amodio suggested. Sooner or later, they get eaten. Natural selection has turned them into a paradox: a short-lived, intelligent animal.
The BBC, citing Estonia’s Postimees, reports that workers there “bundled a wild wolf into their car” thinking that it was a dog. In any case, the big fella was in big trouble out in the ice. Speaking to the Estonian newspaper Postimees, one of the men, Rando Kartsepp, said: “We had to carry him over […]
The twitter account @TheScaryNature posted this image with the caption “these two Bull Moose died in battle and became frozen in ice”, and the only thing I can think of is “Toxic mooseculinity.” The photographer, as revealed by Google’s reverse image search feature, is Brad Webster: Webster says there are several theories on what happened […]
I don't suppose you've seen those two boiled eggs I left sitting on the kitchen sideboard by any chance? pic.twitter.com/dV2YSbZL6R — Stevie K (@1StevieKilner) February 17, 2019 I love the look on that puppy face.
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