by Captain Skellett | May 5, 2010 | Drugs, How Things Work, Just for Fun, The Realm of Bizzare
A mouthful changes your perception of taste, making everything you eat for an hour afterward taste sweet. Lemons taste like oranges, oranges taste delightful, strawberries are to die for. Sounds like something illicit, a taste trip. It was about a year ago I first...
by Captain Skellett | Apr 18, 2010 | How Things Work, The Realm of Bizzare
Oceans aren’t the only thing that respond to the moon. The land has tides as well. My videos are all found on my YouTube Channel. If you love me or fear me, click through and RANK ME OR WALK THE PLANK! It’s unbelievable that the ground beneath you actually...
by Captain Skellett | Mar 14, 2010 | Sex and Reproduction, The Realm of Bizzare
While we’re on the topic of gender bending animals, this chicken is half-hen and half-rooster. Epic. Ed Yong wrote about it a couple of days ago, but apparently it was a very complex paper and I didn’t get his explanation. So without further ado, have some...
by Captain Skellett | Jan 1, 2010 | How Things Work, The Realm of Bizzare
This post and the next have been bubbling in the pipeline for some months now, and were finally prodded to the open by this post by Carl Zimmer about the facial tumour disease wiping out Tasmanian Devils. So what’s the deal with the face-cancer first up?...
by Captain Skellett | Nov 25, 2009 | Sex and Reproduction, The Realm of Bizzare
Next time you run out of food in the fridge ask yourself this, would you eat a human? If you were in a plane crash in the middle of a desert, would you eat the person who sat next to you, or would you brave the supply of frozen muffins and green omelettes they serve...
by Captain Skellett | Nov 17, 2009 | Recent Research, The Realm of Bizzare
OM NOM NOM! This picture was taken in March 2009, and shows a moon jellyfish (about 12 cm in diameter) being EATEN ALIVE by a coral called Fungia scruposa (about 20 cm in diameter). It’s the first time a coral has been documented eating an adult jellyfish....