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Scientists draw ancient Squid using it’s own ink

A fossil of an ancient Squid was so well preserved in the earth, that scientists were able to eject it’s ink and draw the specimen with it.

After mixing the powdery one-inch-long black ink sac with an ammonia solution, the ink they created was of good enough quality to draw the squid-like creature and write its Latin name.

Oh wow, just about the cutest pictures ever.

   A tiger mother lost her cubs from premature labor, shortly after she became depressed and her health declined. She was later diagnosed with depression. So they wrapped piglets up in tiger cloth, and gave them to the tiger. The tiger now loves these pigs and treats them like her babies.

THIS is an incredible story. CLICK HERE or the picture above for more photos and more of the story.

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Scientists say dolphins should be treated as ‘non-human persons’

Bizarre Sea Slug is Half Plant, Half Animal.

It looks like any other sea slug, aside from its bright green hue. But the Elysia chlorotica is far from ordinary: it is both a plant and an animal, according to biologists who have been studying the species for two decades.

Not only does E. chlorotica turn sunlight into energy — something only plants can do — it also appears to have swiped this ability from the algae it consumes.
 
Native to the salt marshes of New England and Canada, these sea slugs use contraband chlorophyll-producing genes and cell parts called chloroplasts from algae to carry out photosynthesis, says Sidney Pierce, a biologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
 
That genetic material has since been passed down to the next generation, eliminating the need to consume algae for energy.
 
However, the baby slugs can’t carry out photosynthesis until they’ve stolen their own chloroplasts, which they aren’t yet able to produce on their own, from their first and only meal of algae.
 
“We collect them and we keep them in aquaria for months,” Pierce told LiveScience. “As long as we shine a light on them for 12 hours a day, they can survive [without food].”
 
Pierce and his colleagues used a radioactive tracer to ensure that the slugs are now producing the chlorophyll themselves and not gathering it from algal contamination in the aquaria.

 Crustacean biologist Gary Martin of Occidental College in Los Angeles sums it up in one word: “Bizarre”.

 “Steps in evolution can be more creative than I ever imagined,” said Martin.

      This bewildered me and completely fascinated me. I feel a whole mix of emotions when I see these pictures, and I dont know why I somehow feel sadness, along with happiness and excitement. Click HERE to see a whole bunch of these outstanding photographs.

These amazing embryonic animal photographs of dolphins, sharks, dogs, penguins, cats and elephants are from a new National Geographic Documentary called “Extraordinary Animals in the Womb”. The show’s producer, Peter Chinn, used a combination of three-dimensional ultrasound scans, computer graphics and tiny cameras to capture the process from conception to birth. They are the most detailed embryonic animal pictures ever seen.