The Gnarliest Possible Way To Kill An Octopus

The Gnarliest Possible Way To Kill An Octopus
According to New Zealand survivalist Josh James, the best way to kill that octopus you just caught for dinner is to literally bite out its brain.

Will The Next Pandemic Come From... Bushmeat?

Will The Next Pandemic Come From... Bushmeat? 
Bushmeat, from wild animals captured for food, is a staple in parts of Africa and a delicacy in Europe and beyond. And it could be the source of the next major infectious disease.

Dressing Up in a Panda Suit Can Really Make a Difference

Dressing Up in a Panda Suit Can Really Make a Difference
In an effort to make sure baby pandas fear humans, caretakers disguise themselves as adult pandas.

Ancient fossils reveal a sticky dinosaur death trap

Ancient fossils reveal a sticky dinosaur death trap
Based upon new findings extracted from a 9-ton block of rock and bone from eastern Utah, some squishy sediment could literally stop even the most rapacious raptors dead in their tracks.

Desert Donkeys Are Introduced To Grass For The First Time And Have No Idea What To Do With Themselves

Desert Donkeys Are Introduced To Grass For The First Time And Have No Idea What To Do With Themselves
Eight burro, having just completed a long road trip from Arizona to California, were anxious to get out of their trailer and into the wider world... Until they noticed the world had shifted into a green hellscape.

Pedal-Powered Treadmill Allows You To Work Out With Your Pooch

Pedal-Powered Treadmill Allows You To Work Out With Your Pooch
Some people might say "why don't you just go outside and walk your dog like a normal person instead of spending $2,000 on pet gym equipment?" And to those people, we reply, "yeah, you're totally right."

This biohacker is engineering puppies to make them glow in the dark.

This biohacker is engineering puppies to make them glow in the dark.
David Ishee’s goal isn’t just to make glowing Frankenpuppies. The glowing puppies are just proof of concept. Eventually, he wants to sequence the genomes of all of his dogs to check for common genetic conditions among Mastiffs like hip dysplasia and thyroid problems and then figure out how to engineer them out.

Spider bites Australian man on penis again

Spider bites Australian man on penis again
A 21-year-old Australian tradesman has been bitten by a venomous spider on the penis for a second time.

Samuel L Jackson Yells At Kittens On 'Fallon'

Samuel L Jackson Yells At Kittens On 'Fallon'
Samuel L Jackson and Gina Rodriguez joined Jimmy for a game of "Truth or Door." Upon choosing "door," Jackson was confronted with a box of teeny kittens he was supposed to yell at about his favorite film, "Raid 2."

Brave Hero Helps A Skunk With A Coke Problem

Brave Hero Helps A Skunk With A Coke Problem
On a quiet road outside of Orillia, Ontari a man became a hero.

Cockroaches are not radiation-proof and most are not pests

Cockroaches are not radiation-proof and most are not pests
Few animals have a worse reputation than the humble cockroach, but almost everything we think we know about them is an urban myth.

The Red Hot Chili Pepper's Flea Teaches Koko The Gorilla How To Play Bass

The Red Hot Chili Pepper's Flea Teaches Koko The Gorilla How To Play Bass
And she's not half bad for picking up a bass for the first time.

Happy Little Deer Is Ready For The Weekend

Happy Little Deer Is Ready For The Weekend
This sika deer was spotted stotting (the technical term for adorable jumping) down the firm mud flats along this harbor in England.

The Horse Whose Job It Is To Just Be Handsome

The Horse Whose Job It Is To Just Be Handsome
His name is Frederik the Great. With 14 million views on YouTube and a New York City schedule that includes an appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” as well as the cameos at the horse show this weekend, the stallion, who lives in Arkansas, is perhaps the Kardashian of horses: famous not necessarily for his skills, but for his looks.

Dude Hunts Down Invasive Lionfish With A 9mm Glock

Dude Hunts Down Invasive Lionfish With A 9mm Glock
Lionfish are an invasive species decimating native fish and crustacean populations in the Atlantic. They also don't have any natural predators. The only way to keep their numbers at bay is for fisherman to get involved in culling, sometimes using unconventaional means.

Welcome to the Brazilian Town That's Experimenting With Mutant Mosquitoes

Welcome to the Brazilian Town That's Experimenting With Mutant Mosquitoes
Cecilia Kossman grabs a pint-sized plastic container from the back of her van, shakes it, then quickly dumps its contents out of the window, releasing about 1,000 genetically engineered mosquitoes into the city’s streets.

Fish Can Be Smarter Than Primates

Fish Can Be Smarter Than Primates
To understand the plurality of intelligence, look under water.

We know exactly how the Vietnamese Javan rhino went extinct

We know exactly how the Vietnamese Javan rhino went extinct
In April 2010, the carcass of the last Javan rhino to live in Vietnam was found in Cat Tien National Park. This is the story of the people who investigated the killing.

How Cats Conquered the World (and a Few Viking Ships)

How Cats Conquered the World (and a Few Viking Ships)
A large-scale study of ancient feline DNA charts the domestication and global spread of house cats.

Squirrels Get Frustrated, Just Like You And I

Squirrels Get Frustrated, Just Like You And I
If you give a squirrel a walnut, it will expect more walnuts. And when it doesn't get those walnuts, it gets really frickin' annoyed.

'Adam Ruins Everything' Explains Why Trophy Hunting Can Be Good For Animals

'Adam Ruins Everything' Explains Why Trophy Hunting Can Be Good For Animals
Some African Nations now use the proceeds from trophy hunting to fund animal conservation, letting hunters kill rare creatures for disgusting amounts of money that they funnel back into conserving the same animals.

Something’s Rotten in the Pet Food Industry

Something’s Rotten in the Pet Food Industry
In theory, the Food and Drug Administration regulates pet food. In practice, limited resources and the need to prioritize human safety have led the FDA to effectively cede federal oversight to the Association of American Feed Control Officials. The end result: few national safeguards to prevent, or even discourage, the use of questionable meat meal.

Do Dolphins Have Conversations? We Still Can't Say

Do Dolphins Have Conversations? We Still Can't Say
We know that many dolphin species develop their own “signature whistle” between one month and two years of age. These whistles function much like a name: Dolphins use their own whistle to introduce themselves. But carry on a polite conversation? Top American dolphin experts were united last week in their skepticism.

Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? | Jordan Kisner

Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? | Jordan Kisner
Rats spread disease, decimate crops and very occasionally eat people alive. For centuries, we have struggled to find an effective way of controlling their numbers. Until now.

Maniac Stings Himself With A Wasp That's Supposedly Painful Enough To Kill A Cow

Maniac Stings Himself With A Wasp That's Supposedly Painful Enough To Kill A Cow
Coyote Peterson officially needs to chill the fuck out. He has covered himself in leeches, let a baby ocelot gnaw at his arm, destroyed his finger with a leafcutter ant and now this. It isn't worth the views, Coyote. Stop.

Why the fear of genetically modified mosquitos

Why the fear of genetically modified mosquitos
At long last, though, mankind may be on the verge of a mosquito-busting panacea. Will we use it?

Evolution Hasn’t Revamped Alligators In 8 Million Years

Evolution Hasn’t Revamped Alligators In 8 Million Years
While many of today’s top predators are more recent products of evolution, the modern American alligator is a reptile from another time.

Are Cat Parasites Controlling Your Brain?

Are Cat Parasites Controlling Your Brain?
Over 20% of people are infected with Toxoplasmosis, a parasite transmitted from cats to humans. Doctors and scientists have held that the parasite is not harmful. However, some individuals, like Kathleen McAuliffe claim that these parasites are commandeering our neurocircuits and driving us crazy.

Bald Eagles Eating Chickens at White Oak Farms

Bald Eagles Eating Chickens at White Oak Farms
Dozens of the raptors crash White Oak Farms each winter to dine on its fields of pasture-raised poultry. With little recourse, the farmers are racing to adapt.

Do Bears Poop While They're Hibernating?

Do Bears Poop While They're Hibernating?
Shorter days trigger biological changes in the bears to prepare them for their hibernation. All the while, inside their bodies intestinal secretions and cells start to slough off and form a plug, which grows to about seven to fifteen inches long and one to two and half inches in diameter.

Could And Should We Bring Extinct Animals To Life?

Could And Should We Bring Extinct Animals To Life?
Right now, we couldn't quite bring back a real Wooly Mammoth, but we could resurrect something pretty close.

A Blind Horse Who Uses His Riders As Eyes

A Blind Horse Who Uses His Riders As Eyes
When Zaxson went blind, he wasn't put out to pasture. Instead, his owner realized the animal could do just about everything he did before, just with a little more help.

Ethiopian Shepard Carries Two Chill Sheep With Him As He Bicycles Around Town

Ethiopian Shepard Carries Two Chill Sheep With Him As He Bicycles Around Town
No car? No problem.

The Mission To Clone The Woolly Mammoth

The Mission To Clone The Woolly Mammoth
Even if we could bring extinct animals back from the dead, an ethical question remains: should we?

Crows Are Way Smarter Than You Think

Crows Are Way Smarter Than You Think
Okay, so this breaks with our theme a little, but Motherboard loves birds — and this crow's intelligence is pretty unreal.

This Chewing Stingray Sheds Light on the Evolution of How Animals Eat

This Chewing Stingray Sheds Light on the Evolution of How Animals Eat
Unlike humans, a lot of animals don’t chew their food. In fact, for a long time, scientists believed that only mammals broke down food by chewing.

In Homing Pigeon Flocks, Bad Bosses Quickly Get Demoted

In Homing Pigeon Flocks, Bad Bosses Quickly Get Demoted
A recent study of homing pigeons found that they're exceptionally good at recognizing and disposing of incompetent leaders.

The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'

The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'
Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the '60s and '70s playing god to thousands of rodents.

Putting Animals' Eyes On The Front (Like A Human) Is Goofy And Nightmarish

Putting Animals' Eyes On The Front (Like A Human) Is Goofy And Nightmarish
For evolutionary reasons, a lot of animals have their eyes on the sides of their head. But what would it look like if they did have front-facing eyes like us humans? Not great!

The country with too many elephants

The country with too many elephants
While Africa as a continent struggles to protect the elephant species from extinction, Malawi has too many.

A Soviet scientist created the only tame foxes in the world

A Soviet scientist created the only tame foxes in the world
In the 1950s a Soviet geneticist began an experiment in guided evolution. He wanted to show how domestication works.

How SeaWorld CEO Joel Manby Is Trying to Save the Park From Itself

How SeaWorld CEO Joel Manby Is Trying to Save the Park From Itself
Inside CEO Joel Manby’s fight to rescue the theme park company from the "Blackfish" controversy.

Dude Feeding Bald Eagles Set To ‘Freebird’ Is So Beautifully American

Dude Feeding Bald Eagles Set To ‘Freebird’ Is So Beautifully American
Who knew throwing hunks of meat on a dirty dock in Alaska could be so patriotic?

Before Harambe, There Was the “Frog Launch” Frog

Before Harambe, There Was the “Frog Launch” Frog
On September 12, 2013, the crew at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia thought they were just sending a rocket to the moon, as they are in the habit of doing. Instead, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft (LADEE) blasted a lil frog off of the launch site and into our hearts.

2 Chainz Plays With $165,000 Kittens

2 Chainz Plays With $165,000 Kittens
Do you have a stupid amount of money and want the fanciest house cat there is? Meet the Ocecat which is part Abuysinian, part Siamese and part American Shorthair.

Pac-Dog Is Coming For Them Dots And Showing Ghosts He Means Business

Pac-Dog Is Coming For Them Dots And Showing Ghosts He Means Business
Twinkie the Jack Russell holds the Guinness World Record for fastest time to pop 100 balloons by a dog. Now, she is putting her skill to the test in a doggie-sized game of "Pac-Man." Can she escape the big bad ghosts and walk away champion?

Spearfisher Captures Great White Shark Attacking Him On Camera

Spearfisher Captures Great White Shark Attacking Him On Camera
When something hit Jamie Hugg in the back while he was spearfishing, he thought his friends were pranking him. He was wrong. (He's okay now.)

Koala Runs Onto The Green To Join Australian Players In A Game Of Footie

Koala Runs Onto The Green To Join Australian Players In A Game Of Footie
Koalas get a bad rap with people thinking they just want to hang out in trees all day getting high on eucalyptus. A lot of them are actually busy pursuing their passions, like Frank here.

The Fossil Record Is Revealing New Info About How Humans Domesticated Dogs

The Fossil Record Is Revealing New Info About How Humans Domesticated Dogs
How and when did wild wolves turn into pets? Science tells us that humans were behind the domestication of what is now man’s best friend — but the timeline of the transformation has always been mysterious.

John Oliver Has One Strongly Worded Message For Birds

John Oliver Has One Strongly Worded Message For Birds
Soon, birds will be migrating to their warm winter vacation locales. Oliver says good riddance.