Yeah, yeah, yeah, I heard that on NPR. Brain chemicals. Nothing about Commies persecuting bird watchers on NPR, though. Maybe Saturday on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.
I guess it’s true what they say: A bird in the hand is worth two in the, er, bush.
Maybe they were just birds of a different feather?
Some more good stuff:
They’ve found an “immortal” creature, a type of jellyfish. See it here.
Here they’ve found the fossil of 43-foot super-snake in Colombia.
And stretching the definition of “animal news,” here we see Nasa may have found some powerful evidence of present-day life on Mars: Lots of methane.
Meh. Every Wednesday in the cafeteria: Enchilada day. 
A couple of good ones.
Extinct Bird Found, Photographed and Eaten.
Giant Rat Caught in China. Complete with photo. Six pounds with a 12-inch tail.
Giant lobster set free.
Aw, man!
Eat the damn rat. :rolleyes:
I bet it tastes like chicken. 
I like how the guy writing the article realizes after about three sentences that there’s no real story to go with the picture; so he just finishes up with a random, unrelated collection of various giant rodent factoids.
Poor bastard. Now his name and photo are all over the internet. Every pharmacist in China will have a contract out on him. Traditional Chinese medicine probably uses giant rat bones to cure syphillis or something.
This story could be the basis for a hilarious Hong Kong action-comedy. A humble ratcatcher stumbles across the biggest score of his career; then has to somehow unload the goods while being pursued by every herbalist in southeast Asia. One man and his giant rat, on a madcap journey of discovery, together.
You find some doozies, Sam. The video below the article is great.
I was just wondering -
would the immortal jellyfish have any consequences for the traditional eastern view of reincarnation ie would it disprove the theory entirely?
As I understand it creatures pass through various animal stages gradually ascending up to human and onward but this thing has never been anything else and will never be anything else.
Let’s kill it and see what happens.
I’m in.
One from Thailand: British Angler Lands Monster Stingray in Thailand.
He pulled it out of the Mekong River, a 350-kilogram (770 pounds) stingray that may be the largest freshwater fish ever caught by rod and line. Check out that photo!
Excerpt: “He said: ‘It dragged me across the boat and would have pulled me in had my colleague not grabbed my trousers – it was like the whole earth had just moved. I knew it was going to a big one’.”
Would that thing have a poisonous barb? If so, why the hell land it?
The article says that they were tagging stingrays for some sort of program, and that they wrapped the tail up.
Amazing.