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ScienceBiologyNewborn Megalodons Were Larger Than Adult Humans and Probably Ate Their Siblings
Picture this: It’s about 20 million years ago, and you’re inside the giant womb of an extremely pregnant Otodus megalodon. Everything’s hunky-dory—some baby sharks have already hatched, and others are on the way. But before any more of those egg-bound brethren can emerge, one of the baby sharks wriggles over and gobbles them up. That … Continued
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io9MoviesCannibal! The Musical Has No Right Being as Good as It Is
Having watched Cannibal! The Musical is one of those things that feels like a badge of honor. The movie was not something anyone saw first in theaters. It had to be discovered. You had to find it or be told about it by a friend. When you finally watched, you were rewarded with proof of … Continued
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io9This Was Not His Design: Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal Could Have Been Hugh Grant
It’s not an overstatement to say that Hannibal, Bryan Fuller’s nouveau gothic drama take on the Hannibal Lecter mythos, made Mads Mikkelsen’s career in Hollywood. But casting a nearly unknown Danish actor for a lead role in a prime-time network drama is not easy, as Fuller will tell you. And it took NBC some time … Continued
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ScienceBiologyUSDA Says It Will Stop Killing Cats
Following the outcry over a disturbing government research practice that resulted in what critics have described as kitten slaughter, a research agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it will no longer conduct the deadly testing as part of its research. The practice in question was part of testing that’s related to toxoplasmosis … Continued
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ScienceHuman HistoryClimate Change Drove Neanderthals to Cannibalism, New Research Suggests
Neanderthals are famous for having lived through the last major ice age, yet for a period of around 14,000 years they had to endure the effects of a naturally occurring global warming cycle. Struggling to adapt to the changing conditions, the Neanderthals turned to cannibalism in desperation, according to a provocative and timely new study. … Continued
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ScienceHealth
Scientists Are Working on a Bath Salts Vaccine to Block the Scary High
Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science are trying to create a vaccine for a class of drugs most infamously, if wrongly, accused of turning people into face-eating zombies commonly known as bath salts. And their latest results in rats, presented this week at the annual Experimental Biology conference, suggest that they’re on … Continued
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Tech NewsHere’s The Truth About Eating Placenta
I’m not going to tell you what to do with your baby’s placenta after birth. If the doctor lets you have it, and you would like to encapsulate it, sauté it, or even ink it to make placenta prints, that is your decision to make. But you should at least know whether scientists have found … Continued
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Tech NewsIs Eating Synthetic Human Flesh Cannibalism?
A disgusting factor which separates consuming human flesh from consuming muscle tissue of non-speaking animals is that you can’t separate eating dead humans from eating live humans. In the way that you call a baby cow “veal” or a pig “pork,” human flesh is just human flesh—you wouldn’t think about eating Dave’s “rounds” or his … Continued
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ScienceBiology
Virgin Velvet Spiders Allow Themselves to Be Eaten By Their Foster Kids
Spiders are typically thought of as solitary creatures that don’t partake in social pleasantries unless it has something to do with mating. But as new research shows, the African velvet spider is an exception to this rule. Mother spiders are assisted by closely-related virgin females who, in addition to engaging in child-rearing tasks, offer themselves … Continued
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Tech News
Bone Etchings Suggest Ancient Cannibals Weren’t Just Doing It For the Meat
Distinctive zig-zag etchings on a prehistoric human bone found at Gough’s Cave in England suggests that Ice Age cannibals consumed human flesh not purely for the nutritional value, but as part of a sophisticated funeral practice. Scientists studying the 15,000-year-old human remains found at Gough’s Cave in Somerset, England, have already show that Ice Age … Continued
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Tech News
Actually, Cannibalism Can Be Good
Sometimes, we humans let our dumb values prevent us from taking biological realities seriously. Take pooping, for example: People have decided pooping is gross, even though it’s a thing that most of us do literally every day. Now, some scientists think that even cannibalism is worth another hard look. Cannibalism naturally occurs in lots of … Continued
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Tech News
Plants Turn Caterpillars Into Cannibals to Save Themselves
In the caterpillar-versus-plant fight, the winner might seem obvious. One side sits motionless in the sun, while the other feasts on it. But the tomato plant has a nefarious defense strategy. In some encounters with herbivores, it winds up relatively unscathed, while the caterpillars wind up eating each other. Researchers have long known that plants … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch Some Animals Eat Each Other While They Bone
Humans do some pretty freaky shit in the bedroom, but it usually falls short of decapitating and eating each other. Some of our cousins in the animal kingdom do not avoid these trifling taboos. “When you’re talking about cannibalism, it’s not cut-and-dry Jefferey Dahmer—it’s not just a starving creature, or animals cannibalizing each other because … Continued
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Tempt Adventurous Dinner Guests With This Recipe From the Hannibal Cookbook
Hannibal may be gone from the airwaves, but it’s forever in our hearts, our nightmares, and on our dinner tables—thanks to Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur’s Cookbook, a recipe collection is curated by the show’s food stylist, Janice Poon. And you don’t even need an appetite for human flesh to enjoy it. Feeding Hannibal, named for … Continued
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This Perverted Sex Act Prevents Male Widow Spiders From Getting Cannibalized
Male widow spiders often end up as a tasty meal for their partners after sex, but new research shows that some males are employing a rather unsettling strategy to prevent this from happening, and it’s a little bit twisted. New research published in Biology Letters shows that a significant portion of male widow spiders copulate … Continued
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Luke Scott Will Make a Movie About the Donner Party With ‘A Walking Dead-Style Twist’
Luke Scott is about to release his much-anticipated debut feature, Morgan, and he’s already got another project lined up: The Hunger, which is not about sexy vampires but ill-fated pioneers. It’s based on a yet-to-be-written novel about the Donner Party, with what Deadline describes as “a Walking Dead-style twist.” Ok. So everyone knows that some … Continued
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