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The 5 Coolest Pets Humanity Has Bred into Existence

The 5 Coolest Pets Humanity Has Bred into Existence
Scientists love themselves some genetic engineering. Like all uses of science, selectively breeding animals can result in creepiness -- we recently covered a handful of designer pets that seem specifically designed to haunt your dreams. But domesticated gene meddling isn't completely immune to awesomeness. Sometimes, just sometimes, what comes out of the test tube is less Cthulhu and more like the kickass pets you always wanted as a kid. For instance ... #5. So Pets Unless you're a circus performer or a member of a Vegas act, chances are your interaction with big cats is limited to visits to the zoo and the occasional tiger rampage. Take the wild-ass serval, an African wild cat that is ridiculously inappropriate for snuggling: Wikimedia CommonsSeen here hungrily eying your liver. But what if science somehow combined that thing with, say, a regular house cat? Funny Pet Wallpapers Because that's what they totally did. Newspaper.liShortly thereafter, it was elected Emperor of Cats. #4. #3.

Kitten Care Basics | How to Care for a New Kitten | Caring for a New Kitten Raising a kitten is one of the most fun things you’ll ever do, but it’s also a big responsibility. The following guide will walk you through the basics of how to take care of that playful, purring bundle of fur. Kittens are so cute, it’s understandable that cat owners sometimes wish their kittens could stay kittens forever. 1. Though it’s not something you have any control over, your kitten’s age is more than just a number. 2. If you don’t have a vet in mind already, ask friends for recommendations. One of the first things you should do with your new cat, if not the very first, is take him in for an exam. 3. Have your vet recommend a type of food, how often to feed, and portion sizes. 4. Feeding a kitten isn’t as easy as grabbing a bag of cat chow at the nearest convenience store. 5. To keep up with your kitten’s appetite, you’ll want to establish a daily feeding routine. Get advice on the best way to litterbox train your kitten. 6. 7. 8. 9.

The 6 Most Incredible Real World Beast Masters Disney movies make hanging out with wild animals look like a walk in a fun, happy, completely predator-free park. But in the real world, being around untamed wildlife isn't so much about carefree singing and dancing and monkeyshinin' as it is about running and screaming. Then coming back later to clean up the poop trail you inevitably left behind. Or it usually is, anyway. #6. To explain this picture of a child cuddling his 20-foot-long snake, we have to tell a story. Fotobank.ruSurprisingly, it didn't end with the kid as poop. Imagine you're the proud parents of a 3-month-old baby. GettyAll that's missing is the colic. So, small. Not Koun Samang's dad, who found a python in his baby's bed and sweetly returned it to the jungle, presumably while giving it a back massage and singing it snaky lullabies. Herald Sun"Hey, what's the worst that could happen?" Seven years later, Samang and the now-giant snake he named "Lucky" are going strong. Herald SunTasting. #5. topdesignmag.com Come on, dude.

5 Mind-Blowing Ways That Science Has Done the Impossible We see so many day-to-day advancements in science, from increasingly powerful smartphones to a potential AIDS cure, that we kind of get numb to it. But somewhere out there, scientists are still reaching for stuff that's so far above and beyond that it sounds like black magic. As we speak, there are researchers who are performing such witchery as ... #5. Recording Your Fantasies and Dreams See, this is what we're talking about. But ... these are our dreams here. "Who's ready for a blistering rendition of the first six chords of 'Smoke on the Water'?" Pretty close, yeah. How the Hell? It was scientists at UC Berkeley who developed a way to literally see what your brain sees, and they did it by manipulating the magic of YouTube. The computer then selected the top 100 videos that best matched what popped out of the subjects' brains, and created a kind of composite image of what it thought it saw. "Sir, you may want to tone down the fantasizing. #4. Wait, did we say "theoretically"? #3.

Good Morning Kitten - Cute Kitten Pictures and LOLs best animal photobombs ever… Photobomb - (verb) to drop into a photo unexpectedly. An otherwise normal photo that has been ruined or spoiled by someone who was not supposed to be in the photograph. hahaha! so THAT’S why I love cats!! via www.buzzfeed.com Like this: Like Loading... Filed under animals, art, family, funny happenings, life Tagged as animals, camera, cats, dogs, funny, horses, Kodak moments, pets, photobomb, Photograph, photography, pictures The 5 Most Ridiculous Drinking Myths You Probably Believe Considering that booze is one of the pillars of human civilization, it's kind of shocking how little we know about it. For instance, we pointed out a while back that some popular misconceptions about alcohol persist despite being goddamned fatal. So, before you get too drunk to read this, let's knock down a few more common ones, like ... #5. The Myth: It's every beer drinker's unavoidable fate: the beer gut. Getty"Every inch was worth it. Your only choice in the matter is whether you suck it in whenever people approach or flaunt it like the wacky uncle who slaps his belly and boasts that "it all turns to penis after midnight." The Reality: The beer gut doesn't exist. "Maybe we shouldn't have gotten liquored up before this test." You see, some researchers got curious about this whole beer belly thing a while back, but presumably their stingy bosses wouldn't sign off on a never-ending supply of oat soda "for science." GettySo try an all-beer diet -- the worst that can happen is scurvy. #4. #3.

Catlicious Caturday: Your necessary dose of Cat GIFs is here Cats are perhaps the funniest of all pets. And thanks to the magic of GIFs, we can now pack cute little cat-doings in a GIF animation and serve it up to you. Check out the following hilarious cat GIFs to fulfill your Caturday requirements. The Most Photogenic Dog on the Internet The 17-year-old photographer Jessica Trinh shot her dog Chuppy. This lovely golden retriever is very likable.In addition to great photography, I think it is very harmonious relationship of Jessica and Chuppy, otherwise it is very difficult to shoot such a warm photo. Source ,Source

7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes People who doubt evolution tend to have one main argument: "If evolution is true, why do we still see monkeys running around today, all chimp-like? Where are all the monkey-men I was promised?" Well, if you or someone you know refuses to believe that organisms change over time without proof on a monkey-man level, here are a buttload of animals in the middle of getting their evolve on. Elephants are Evolving to Lose Their Tusks (and Avoid Poachers) Here's a joke: What did the elephant say to the poacher? Getty"Stop! Sorry about that. GettyAnd ever since animal rights got involved, unemployment has shot up 300 percent. So elephants have decided to take matters into their own hands ... or trunks or weirdly rounded three-toed feet or whatever. By 2005, it was estimated that the tuskless population had risen to between 5 and 10 percent. GettyJust like your debilitating lisp after reading that out loud Which is incredible, because it's not like tusks are the elephant version of wisdom teeth.

Liger.org - Photos and Videos of Ligers and Tigons 5 Reasons You Should Be Excited About Mars Today Perhaps the most popular cosmic story of the past decade was that Pluto was no longer a planet. Everyone shared it, and everyone knew about it. However, on a list of the most important scientific discoveries of the past decade, "Pluto is no longer a planet" ranks just under "everything else" and just above nothing. This evening, however, at about 10:30 PST, something pretty incredible will likely occur, and it has nothing to do with the Olympics. #5. Curiosity has been flying toward Mars for almost a year now. The hard part for Curiosity is landing, though. The above video describes the entire complicated process of Curiosity actually landing on the surface of Mars. mars.jpl.nasa.govBum bum buuuuuuuuum! And because it takes so long for a signal to reach Earth from Mars, we won't even know if it worked for 14 minutes. GettyYes, I meant literally. Now, I don't want to belittle the accomplishments of our Olympic athletes. So let us cheer for a robot today. #4. nasa.govRemember me? #3.

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Zebra hybrid is cute surprise A Shetland pony on a UK farm has surprised its owners by giving birth to a half-zebra foal. The hybrid animal, now a week old, appears healthy and is bouncing around its paddock at the Eden Ostrich World, at Langwathby Hall Farm, near Penrith, Cumbria. The owners of the pony, called Tilly, had no idea she was pregnant when they bought her from a wildlife park, where she had been kept in a field with a male zebra. "She was fairly fat when we received her and we thought that she was getting fatter," Karen Pete said. "It really was a bit of a shock when we got up one morning and we saw the foal that was there. We realised then what had happened." Genetic difference A cross between a horse and a zebra is rare but by no means unheard of. The Cumbrian foal would probably be called a zorse, although some commentators have suggested it might better be termed a zetland. Hybrids are an interesting curiosity. Hybrids are not easy to create, however. A horse has 64 chromosomes; the zebra has 44.

X Things that only look trippy under a microscope (ph) Whoa. So deep down, every pina colada is like staring at peacock feathers after dropping, like, all the acid. We're surprised we've never pissed out Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat after overindulging on these. You might think there's some computerized color enhancement at play here, but that's actually a photograph taken by BevShots, which achieved the effect by allowing the drink to dry on a microscope slide, shining some natural light onto it and taking an extreme close-up with a plain old 35 mm camera. Let's look at a few more. Via Bevshots.comFaith and Begorra! What, not artsy enough for you? Via Daily Mail And while that looks like some kind of experimental artwork from the '70s, a margarita ... Via Telegraph ... is channeling Georgia O'Keeffe. We're honestly surprised by how beautiful all of these are. Via Daily MailIt's the only drink that judges you while you sip.

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