Technicians in New Zealand have begun to thaw a rare colossal squid specimen.
The operation to defrost the 10-metre (34 feet) long, half-tonne squid began on Monday afternoon in Wellington. The animal is now sitting in a bath of salt water. Once it is thawed, scientists will begin to dissect it.
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Entries Tagged as 'animals'
What’s big and smells of fish?
September 6th, 2010 · No Comments · News Around
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Our saviours
September 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Hearsay and Gossip, The Slug and Philosopher
“So Fruitella 521, what have you discovered on your tour of Planet Earth?”
“The earthlings are a confused bunch, Spangle 10, they live short and fearful lives and have little understanding of the Universe around them.”
“How do so many live on one small planet, Fruitella 521?”
“Ten percent live very well and grow fat on ninety-percent of [...]
The Apprentice
September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Unlikely Reviews
‘The Apprentice’ is nearly getting exciting again.
Sir Alan Sugar strides through double doors into the boardroom where a bunch of young people with no business experience and few life skills sit nervously waiting for him to deliver his decision.
It’s a bit like that bit in ‘Star Wars’ where Darth Vader asks his crew why [...]
Running man
August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Hearsay and Gossip
BIG-GAME hunting has returned to Britain with gunmen paying £550 apiece to shoot captive wild boar on a country estate. At two recent trial drives, 20 “hunters” killed a total of 51 wild boar.
“It is an adrenaline high as a 16-stone boar charges at you through the undergrowth,” said Dave Corner, a hunter who helped [...]
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Mooody Cows
August 7th, 2010 · No Comments · News Around
A Swedish university has received £300,000 in research funds to discover how much greenhouse gas is released when cows belch.
About 20 cows will participate in the project run by the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences. Project leader Jan Bertilsson said 95 per cent of the methane released by cows comes out through the mouth.
“It’s [...]
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Parrot dead
August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · News Around
Alex the parrot was used by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg in a 30-year experiment designed to prove that birds could understand the meaning of words rather than just mimicking. Pepperberg claimed that Alex could associate words with colours and shapes and that he had the intelligence of a five-year-old child, claims disputed by other scientists. [...]
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