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The early bird catches the, er … He must be really hungry. (Baghdad pet market.)

my favorite headline of the day.
BBC: Great tits cope well with warming

He looks pretty fierce. Look at the sense of determination. Note the sharp fangs and ease of movement through the water.
Found on FFFFOUND.

Before there was Harold McGee’s On Food & Cooking and before Michael Ruhlman’s The Elements of Cooking there was The Grocer’s Encyclopedia by Aretemas Ward. This extensive work from 1911 is available online for free here.

So the pigeons lost.

I was walking home from work tonight and I just happened to notice this enormous seagull going after this nasty pigeons carcass. Pretty damn disgusting, but that’s the way of nature I suppose. On one hand, I was kind of cheering for the gull since I can’t stand filthy little pigeons, but [...]

These mushrooms magically appeared in a small plant pot at work. They are bright yellow and most likely very poisonous. Please do not touch.
Previously: Bacteria Art

Hey. Do you like donkeys, but hate the big-donkey mess? Do you love country music? How about animated gifs? Really? How about a miniature donkey farm that produces top quality mini-donkeys (minidonks) named after classic country musicians like George Jones and Garth Brooks? Oh man, have I got a site for you. It’s called Minidonk.com
Tips [...]

It is hard to imagine anything more terrible than a magical CGI-dolphin jumping out of the ocean playing with some sort of computerized globe.
This came from the otherwise reputable Getty Images

I scanned a lobster bib i got at the excellent Vietnamese restaurant PPQ Dungeness Island. Yes, I am aware that this fine crab restaurant hands out lobster bibs, but who cares, the food is amazing. If you like spending more money on crab and you feel like going to the original, you can go to [...]

Keeping the Sea-Life theme going…

Scoop a handful of critters out of the San Francisco Bay and you’ll find tourists from far away shores. Invasive kinds of mussels, fish and more are choking out native species, challenging experts around the state to change the human behavior that brings them here.
KQED Quest link.

Watercolor of feudal Japanese cephalopods fighting. I love it.
Have a look.

link.
Via Boing Boing.