— Now this is strange… it may someday be possible to generate meat artificially using cloning technology without hacking it from an animal. This would be done in the same fashion that cells and organs might be generated from stem cells; muscle tissue would be generated without it having come from a once-living, intact creature. Rewards have been offered by some animal-rights groups towards this end, with chicken flesh the most likely to be initially created. Ethical questions and divisive, organization-splitting differences of opinion abound as this new territory begins to be explored…
Meat Without Animals?
Posted May 5, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: animals, furry, science
Tags: cloned meat, meat without animals
Giant Squid Found
Posted May 3, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: animals, anomalies, furry, science
Tags: biggest eye, giant squid
— A giant squid currently being thawed out and examined in New Zealand has the world’s largest eye with a lens the size of an orange; the eye itself in total is about the size of a dinner plate. The squid measured about 26 feet long when caught accidentally by fishermen off Antarctica last February; it weighs in excess of 1,000 pounds!
Giant squids are mollusks, cephalopods to be more specific that are related to the octopus. Specimens larger than this one are regarded to exist in the ocean depths!
Fatal Shark Attack
Posted April 28, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: animals, furry, science
Tags: great white, shark, shark attack
–On April 25th, a 66-year-old retired veterinarian triathlete while training was killed in a shark attack off the California coast. It was the first shark attack there in four years, and the 96th since 1926. The man suffered massive bite wounds to his legs by the Great White, and attempts to save him failed. The shark swam away after inflicting the fatal bite…
Grizzly Bear Kills Trainer
Posted April 26, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: animals, furry, unexplained
Tags: Grizzly bear, Rocky, trainer killed
— The 39-year-old trainer of a grizzly bear called Rocky was killed by the bear with a bite to the neck at a training site in California called Predators in Action. The 5-year-old bear was normally gentle, and had been trained to wrestle handlers on cue; he had appeared in several movies…the fate of the bear remains uncertain at present.
Ants
Posted April 23, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: animals, humor, science
Tags: ants, insecticide, insects
— There are more insects on an acre of country land in the summer than there are human beings on the face of the earth…
I went into a garden shop, picked up an insecticide, and asked the cashier if it was good for red ants. “Nah,” he said, “It’ll kill them!”
Cougar Shot Dead in Residential Chicago
Posted April 16, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: animals, anomalies, furry
Tags: cougar, furry
— Was it poet Carl Sandburg who described the fog as creeping in on “little cat feet?”–How about cougar paws? A 150-pound cougar was shot dead by police in a residential neighborhood of Chicago’s North Side, ending a series of recent sightings reported in recent times. The cougar will be checked for tags and implanted chips which might reveal if the cougar was someone’s pet.
As reported in a recent Monster Quest episode, however, large predacious animals have recently been reported in areas assumed to be devoid of them…intrusions which will probably become increasingly common as the natural habitats and prey of those animals are whittled away by man…
Baby Born With Two Faces
Posted April 9, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: anomalies, medical, science
Tags: Baby with two faces
–In India about 25 miles from New Delhi, a baby was born to impoverished parents that has two faces on a single head…two sets of eyes, two noses, and two mouths. The child is in no acute danger, and there is no talk of separation, which would likely be impossible.
Now about a month old, the baby is revered by many as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, and is visited by throngs offering money or other gifts and wishing to touch the baby’s feet in search of blessings…
Hawk Attacks Girl
Posted April 6, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: animals, furry
Tags: furry, hawk attack, red-tailed hawk
— A red-tailed hawk attack an eighth grade girl on tour of Fenway Park in Boston on Thursday, drawing blood from the girl’s scalp and sending her to the hospital for treatment. No other students in the girl’s group were attack.
The girl was within 40 feet of the hawk’s nest, which had a single egg in it…the nest and egg were moved following the attack.
Woman Bites Dog!
Posted April 5, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: animals, furry
Tags: pit bull attck, woman bites dog
— If a dog bites a person, it’s not news…the reverse is news! Well, a 38-year-old woman in Minneapolis saw a pit bull attack her 12-year-old lab in her fenced-in back yard on Friday, and she couldn’t pry the other dog’s jaws loose, so she bit the pit bull on the nose! The pit bull then released its grip, and the lab named Ella was saved, although it suffered injuries. The woman actually experienced having the pit bull’s blood in her mouth.
The pit bull is being tested for rabies to see if the woman must undergo treatment…
Cheetah Attack!
Posted April 1, 2008 by vulpesffbCategories: animals, furry
Tags: attack, cheetah
— The 37-year-old owner of a wildlife sanctuary in Florida was attack by two cheetahs on Sunday, suffering over 40 puncture wounds. Her injuries are reported to be non-life threatening.
When the cheetahs had the woman in their possession, they acted instinctively, trying to retain possession of her as they would of prey or even a toy…
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