Apr. 18, 2012

What is this fancy see-through lizard? Look! You can see his eyeballs through his eyelids, so cool!
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Comment by Chris on April 20, 2012 at 1:01am That's interesting about birds feet. I was told after I first build my chicken coup that I had better hurry and put a perch in it because the birds sit on their feet and cover them with their feathers so they don't freeze. I was also told that chickens that had black patches on their feet suffered with frost bite in the past. I wonder if the cold weather adaption is only for birds that naturally inhabit cold weather areas.
Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 18, 2012 at 9:28pm BirdNote® Why Birds’ Feet Don’t Freeze
Birds have adapted to cold weather to keep their legs and feet toasty, even during the coldest of winters. Michael Stein reports how it works.
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Comment by doone on April 18, 2012 at 8:23pm Apr. 18, 2012

What is this fancy see-through lizard? Look! You can see his eyeballs through his eyelids, so cool!

Comment by doone on April 11, 2012 at 3:18pm 
Oh my. He looks like a television with antennae sticking out from the top. And did they really have to make his fake abs so pronounced in this rubber suit?

Comment by doone on April 11, 2012 at 12:19pm Apr. 11, 2012


Comment by Chris on April 11, 2012 at 2:51am I'd like to have that tree on the West side of my house. At about 4:30 in the summer, when the sun hits the west wall the second floor room temperature shoots up 10 degrees.

Comment by doone on April 10, 2012 at 2:49pm Apr. 10, 2012

Thank you, trees, for providing what we actually need when we need it!

Comment by doone on April 7, 2012 at 6:38pm Apr. 7, 2012


Comment by doone on April 7, 2012 at 12:50pm Apr. 6, 2012

“Tom, you wouldn’t believe it! That mouse was huge! At least six feet tall!”
“We’re in Australia, Phil, that was a kangaroo.”
“Oh.”

Comment by doone on April 7, 2012 at 12:50pm Apr. 6, 2012

Wat yu finks yu’r gonna du.
An wat yu reely du!
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