The internet is overloaded with pictures of animals at their cutest, staring at the camera with their wide-eyed, innocent faces that say “I love you, human. I would never tear into your thorax or eat your spleen.”
But anyone who has ever encountered these beasts know that they will turn on you at any minute. Hell, they’ll even attack each other!
These photographs taken by Scott Linstead is amazing. Looking at them you get the impression that the animals were frozen in time. Such shots requires incredible reflexes, patience, and do not hide it – very good equipment for photography.
Paul Williams, a filmmaker working with BBC Wildlife, has rescued Rob the Sri Lankan palm squirrel after his mother left him alone in the wilderness. Williams has returned to the UK, leaving Rob with a high-class hotel in Sri Lanka that will feed him until he is ready to leave.
The Toxoplasma parasite is an unusually devious operator. When it infects mice, it alters their behaviour so they become fearless enough to seek out cats and get eaten. But exactly how it did this was a mystery.
Any animal that touches Lake Natron turns to stone.
The blue whale is big, but nowhere near as huge as a sprawling fungus in eastern Oregon…