1. Big, orangey, and reflective and pretty sexy. Fatal attraction. discoverynews: Beetles Die During Sex With Beer Bottles It’s a case of mistaken attraction, because the beer bottles happen to possess all of the features that drive male Australian jewel beetles wild. They’re big and orangey brown in color, with a slightly dimpled surface near the bottom (designed to prevent the bottle from slipping out of one’s grasp) that reflects light in much the same way as female wing covers. Read more

    Big, orangey, and reflective and pretty sexy. Fatal attraction.

    discoverynews:

    Beetles Die During Sex With Beer Bottles

    It’s a case of mistaken attraction, because the beer bottles happen to possess all of the features that drive male Australian jewel beetles wild. They’re big and orangey brown in color, with a slightly dimpled surface near the bottom (designed to prevent the bottle from slipping out of one’s grasp) that reflects light in much the same way as female wing covers.

    Read more

  2. Now that’s just not fair! Pachyderm has four legs, and a trunk can be used as a fifth! npr: nationalpostsports: Gratuitous soccer elephant of the day: Meet the “oracle” who predicted the results of the women’s World Cup this summer. Fabian Bimmer/Reuters This must be the day for re-blogging fun animal photos! —Wright

    Now that’s just not fair! Pachyderm has four legs, and a trunk can be used as a fifth!

    npr:

    nationalpostsports:

    Gratuitous soccer elephant of the day: Meet the “oracle” who predicted the results of the women’s World Cup this summer. Fabian Bimmer/Reuters

    This must be the day for re-blogging fun animal photos! —Wright