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No doubt you heard about how Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs picked a bothersome bat right out of the air during a basketball game last week, but mental_floss seizes upon the occasion to remember similar occurrences with their listicle of 10 Times Animals Have Interrupted Sporting Events. We especially enjoyed this seagull’s contribution [...]

Last week we looked at some art and crafty facial hair substitutes in the days leading up to Halloween, plotting the possibility of knitting beards for our own costume. This week we’re contemplating facial hair of a very different, decidedly more organic and unruly sort: the bee beard. Holytaco has assembled a a listicle of [...]

As the decade comes to a close and we start seeing an explosion of listicles about the last ten years, we here at Listicles labs are predicting an overwhelmingly sad, scary and disappointing summary of the aughts. We imagine that this will be an especially inescapable verdict for all things environmental, as we’ve done a [...]

As drought-prone areas experience some of the driest seasons on record ever, both the Southern and Northern hemispheres have witnessed some of the worst wildfires in years in 2009. This weekend a massive wildfire was knocking at Los Angeles’ gates, but California, the Northwest and even Alaska have been getting lit all summer, as have [...]

There’s something remarkably satisfying about watching an animal beat up, humiliate or embarrass a human being, and really, we wish we could turn Tabloid Prodigy’s listicle of the 10 Funniest Videos of Animals Owning People into one long vidsticle that would stream continuously in our office. Since we have to pick one, though, it’ll have [...]

Remember the innumerable flocks of winged murderers in The Birds? Well, those were mostly crows and gulls and it was scary, imagine how terrifying that would be if they were bald eagles or pterodactyls or something. Well, this family is totally unfazed and even feeds the birds that visit them in this vidsticle of 50 [...]

When it comes to compelling stories about the living dead, it turns out that science is often stranger than science fiction. We don’t have to wait for the apocalyptic cannibalizing of our race by our dead, zombies already walk amongst us – they’re just really, really small. So small in fact that you might step [...]

It’s been a little while since we invited you, dear readers, to bliss out with us in front of some stunning nature photography. We’re feeling a little hippie-dippy today, though, so we suggest you check out Environmental Graffiti’s compilation of 15 Phenomenal Images of the Aurora Australis. Or, if you’re lazy like us, you can [...]

Though it’s difficult for us puny humans to comprehend, most natural processes take milennia to unfold. So even though we invented movie cameras to slow down lightning-fast phenomena, they can also be used to speed up frustratingly slow events. Witness, for instance, Wired Science’s listicle of the Top 10 Time-Lapse Nature Videos, our favorite of [...]

As anybody who watched the BBC’s Planet Earth series will tell you, animal conservation funds and programs are fraught with all kinds of bureaucratic caveats and requirements. Though we clearly have the money and resources to save entire species, arguments about how to fund such initiatives and how to most effectively carry them out are [...]