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Some of our greatest innovations have been in the military field. These are the wacky weapons that misguided military inventors have come up with over the years. 10. Animal Bombs Today animal rights organizations would protest the use of animals in warfare but in World War II, several different nations did just that. The United [...]
Posted by Loni Perry on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, History · Tagged aircraft carrier, Archimedes, Boeing, British government, British people, cannon, Carthaginian stronghold of Syracuse, Combined Operations Headquarters, defensive tool, Geoffrey Pyke, German Office of Aeronautics, James Puckle, kamikaze, Lantern shield, Lytle S. Adams, machine gun, Man Catcher, metal ships, military, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, pheromones, Project Habakkuk, Pykrete, pykrete carrier, Special Operations Executive, The Boeing Company, United Kingdom, United States, United States Air Force, United States Navy, Zippermeyer
Mother Nature is filled with formidable killing machines. Voracious flesh-eaters such as the thresher shark, the harpy eagle, the death stalker scorpion…and how about that rosy snail? Or the oyster mushroom? Some animals kill with teeth, claws and muscle…others kill with little more than mucus and patience. 10. Planarian If you’ve taken college biology, you [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, December 13, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Nature · Tagged Animal, Anthozoa, Australia, bagworms, Biology, Bivalves, bugs, carnivorous tunicate, Chlorobalius leucoviridis, Chondrocladia, Cone snail, Coral, corals, dual-shelled mollusks, environment, food, fungi, hawaii, Hawaii,United States, Incremental dating, insects, Jonathan Wojcik, katydid, katydids, Megalodicopia hians, mussels, mycelia, Nature, nudibranchs, Panama, Perisceptis carnivora, pheromones, planarian, Plankton, planktonic food, Pleurotus ostreatus, sea creatures, sea sponges, sea squirts, Snail, snails, Sponge, starfish, Tunicates, unexpected killers, unexpected killers in nature, Venomous animals, water, Zoology
From films like “Night of the Creeps” and “Slither” to video games such as “Resident Evil 4″ and “Halo,” sci-fi horror is crawling with parasitic lifeforms who hijack their host bodies, creating zombie slaves to spread themselves even farther. Little do many people realize, this phenomenon is a scientific reality, and happening all around us [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, September 10, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals · Tagged Ant, Barnacles, Biology, caterpillars, Cordyceps, Ecology, Fish flukes, fruit flies, Glyptapanteles, Gordian worm, guard, Halo, head, horse hair worms, Lancet fluke, Leucochloridium, Night of the Creeps, Parasites, parasitic lifeforms, Parasitism, parasitoid, Parasitology, pheromones, Platyhelminthes, Pseudacteon, Ribeiroia, Sacculina, severed head, Strepsipterans, Symbiosis, Worm, zombie, zombie parasites, Zoology
