This can only end in missing children, and bad SyFy movies. Actually now that I look these birds up, it looks like they've only pulled DNA from giant, flightless birds. Maybe we're safe after all! For now. I'm waiting on Argentavis Magnificens!

If you want to read an extinct bird's genome, you've got to crack a few eggs. That's how DNA has been isolated in a 19,000-year-old emu eggshell – the first time such a feat has been pulled off.

This is a description of some kind of fuckery, including a link.

Double Atomic bomb survivor dies in Japan.

My favorite bit:
Immediately after the war, Yamaguchi worked as a translator for American forces in Nagasaki....

I could not be so forgiving.

Bound to happen eventually: raccoons stop taking no for an answer.

This is probably not new to all, but it gave me a giggle: http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/.

Franchises available! Call now! From the creator of the site:

So I'm toying with setting up this service for the North East and franchising it to other sections of the country. While New England wouldn't be a top performing area, representatives in the Midwest and the South, the Bible Belt, would have more takers than they could shake a pooper scooper at.

Words won't do it justice. Just go take a look at this classy, hand made, custom molded resin spoon rest on Craftster. You won't like it.

It sounds like bad PETA propaganda, but it's true:

Two researchers at the University of Chicago estimated that switching to a vegan diet would have a bigger impact than trading in your gas guzzler for a Prius. A study out of Carnegie Mellon University found that the average American would do less for the planet by switching to a totally local diet than by going vegetarian one day a week.

Discuss!

Male rape is on the rise in the Congo, one of the worst places on earth.

A new 32-story, 200-unit highrise condo building in Florida has one tenant. You know what I'm thinking? POOL PARTY!

"'It's certainly biological. It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter. It's definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it's some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism.'"