Because SOMEBODY had to do SOMETHING with all those unwanted AOL CDs , Australian artist Sean Avery decided to put them to good use creating little animal sculptures (custom ones available on his website for ~$320-$850). Good lookin’, Sean. Some artists work in paint, some in clay, and others in light and music. Avery? Avery works in broken CDs . Me? I work in a cramped office with no windows and an officemate who brags about how nasty his gas is. Hit the jump for more and a link to Sean’s website WITH EVEN MORE THAN THAT.

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Animal Sculptures Created From Shattered CDs

27-year old Meredith Lowell had a plan. A plan of hiring a hitman on Facebook to stab somebody to death wearing fur at a public library , then she’d swoop in and immediately start passing out animal rights propaganda. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t work. No word if she’s ever heard of LinkedIn. An undercover FBI agent then contacted her, posing as a hit man after the agency subpoenaed Facebook to uncover details about her profile. She then allegedly requested that the murder take place at a local library and that she be present so that she could then hand out documents about animal cruelty after the homicide. “Bring a sharp knife that is at least 4 inches long, it should be sharp enough to stab someone with and/or to slit their throat to kill them,” Lowell allegedly wrote in an e-mail, according to the affidavit. The individual should be at least 12 years old, but “preferably 14 years or older,” Lowell allegedly wrote. “I want the person dead in less than 2 minutes (under 2 minutes or 1 minute or less would be better.)” You should never hire a 12-year old hitman aside, I meet a lot of crazy people on the bus, but this girl blows them all out of the water. I mean, how does somebody get so wildly adamant about a cause that they’re willing to solicit murder ? “Maybe she was raised by foxes.” You…are a genius. Woman accused of hiring hit man to kill random fur-wearer [cnn] Thanks to Evil Ares, who’s so evil he was once hired as a hitman, then immediately shot the person who hired him.

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WTF Were You Thinking?: Crazy Woman Tries Hiring Facebook Hitman To Kill ‘Somebody Wearing Fur’

A new species of wonk-eyed chameleon ( Brookesia micra ) has been discovered in Madagascar, and only reaches a scant 29mm when full grown. That…seems pretty small . The guy in the picture though? He looks kinda big. “You do realize that’s just a match and not a tiki torch, right?” *brain explodes sending penises flying* Tiny lizards found in Madagascar [bbc] Thanks to Rev Dr Dom, who isn’t a real reverend or doctor but whom I still solicit for spiritual and medical advice.

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Super-Miniature Chameleons Found In Madagascar

That’s the problem: people don’t wait until they have something WORTH posting. This is the first video ever uploaded to Youtube by one of the website’s co-founders on April 23, 1955 2005. It…is a giant turd . I really think it set a precedent for the 99.9% of videos on Youtube that suck ass and never should have been uploaded in the first place. *banging head on keyboard* WHY COULDN’T IT HAVE BEEN A CAT VIDEO?! Hit the jump for why elephants are so interesting. SPOILER: It’s their trunks!

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Wow, That Sucked: First Video Uploaded To Youtube

Plus they can stop on a dime. According to a research article published by the University of Louisiana, this is the recently discovered New Guinea Paedophryne amauensis , the world’s new smallest vertebrate. Which — come on — show a little backbone, will ya? Haha, that was an Indiana Jones quote. You know, from the scene where he’s in the airplane and the pilot’s pet snake is between his legs. Indy hates snakes! Me? I hate everything. Averaging less than one-third of an inch (7.7 millimeters) in length, the frogs are able to fit in the center of a U.S. dime. Paedophryne amauensis steals its tiny crown from Paedocypris progenetica , an Indonesian fish that averages over eight millimeters in length. Wow, could you imagine being that small? The world would seem so giant. But to us humans, it’s tiny. I mean, we can travel around the entire planet in like, what, 80 days now? Technology! World’s Tiniest Vertebrate, Paedophryne Amauensis Frog, Discovered In New Guinea [huffingtonpost] and Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World’s Smallest Vertebrate [plosone] (official scientific mumbo-jumbo paper) Thanks to Rev Dr Dom, who found an even smaller frog in his soup one time but didn’t tell anybody because he really likes the restaurant’s dessert and didn’t want them to get closed down.

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Teensy Weensy!: The World’s New Smallest Vertebrate

A face not even a great-grandmother could love. Seen here looking like something out of a survival horror video game , a group of recently discovered and near extinct snub-nosed monkeys are captured on film for the first time (previously: a Photoshop rendition ). Clearly they’re not endangered because of the pet trade. Heavy snows in January and constant rain in April made expeditions to set the camera traps difficult. “We were dealing with very tough conditions in a remote and rugged area that contained perhaps fewer than 200 monkeys,” said Jeremy Holden, who led the camera trapping team. “We didn’t know exactly where they lived, and I didn’t hold out much hope of short term success with this work.” But in May a small group of snub-nosed monkeys walked past one of the cameras and into history. “We were very surprised to get these pictures,” said Saw Soe Aung, a field biologist who set the cameras. “It was exciting to see that some of the females were carrying babies - a new generation of our rarest primate.” The monkeys, who are limited to a small range in Myanmar near China, are endangered due to habitat loss and hunting. Hunting — or shooting because you thought it was a demon coming to steal your soul? Because one time I spent a whole night posted up in my bedroom window shooting zombies with a BB gun and calling 911 until the cops showed up and told me it was Halloween. My bad! Hit the jump for the faceless Michael Jackson tribute monkey.

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First Photos Of The Near-Extinct Snub-Nosed Monkey

Seen here falling for the ol’ fish head on a hook trick, the world’s first documented hybrid shark stares into the camera with a googly eye. Scientists believe the species is humping around in direct response to climate change, which I believe. It’s too f***ing hot in here, I’m gonna bang a hammerhead. “This is evolution in action.” The Australian black-tip is slightly smaller than its common cousin and can only live in tropical waters, but its hybrid offspring have been found 2,000 kilometres down the coast, in cooler seas. It means the Australian black-tip could be adapting to ensure its survival as sea temperatures change because of global warming. “If it hybridises with the common species it can effectively shift its range further south into cooler waters, so the effect of this hybridising is a range expansion,” Morgan said. “It’s enabled a species restricted to the tropics to move into temperate waters.” Wow, could you even imagine if great whites decided they were gonna start humping other sharks? Because that would be f***ing terrifying. But mostly just for the other shark. World-first hybrid shark found off Australia [yahoonews] Thanks to Matt, who agrees a couple more years and those shitty b-movies like Sharktopus and Squidigator aren’t gonna seem so stupid after all.

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Fill The Oceans With Concrete!: Hybrid Sharks Exist

Miami dead animal artist Enrique Gomez De Molina was recently arrested and faces up to 5-years in jail and $250K in fines after illegally smuggling in the remains of rare and endangered animals to make his Frankensculptures. For shame, Enrique! How much for a female mannequin with the head of a dinosaur? According to the report, he is charged with possessing the skins of a Java kingfisher, collared kingfisher, bird of paradise, and juvenile hawk-eagle as well as the carcasses of a slow loris and a mouse deer, all from Indonesia. The artist had not obtained the required permits to import the animal parts, and police claim De Molina knew what he was doing was illegal as he asked the people he bought them from to wrap them in carbon paper, according to the MN Times. The artist claims that he aimed to raise awareness with his work to the danger faced by a range of species… Ah yes, the old “raise awareness by partaking in the same practices responsible for the animal’s near extinction in the first place”. Now that is what I call ART. A piece made from the very thing it speaks against. Reminds me of my most recent project. It was called ‘PLEASE DON’T STINK’. And? And was just ‘PLEASE DON’T STINK’ spelled out really big on the carpet in dog turds. “Jesus — what the hell is wrong with you?” I’m ahead of my time! Hit the jump for a whole bunch more ark-missers.

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Man Arrested For Taxidermy-ing Together Mutant Animals From Illegal/Endangered Species

Louis Armstrong: hands down one of my favorite musicians of all time. Granted he didn’t actually write ‘ What A Wonderful World ‘, but he is the best to perform it (with Israel Kamakawiwo?ole’s coming in a very close second). You ever spent a night drinking and listening to old jazz records in the dark with the windows open? It’s a spiritual experience. This is a BBC commercial featuring David Attenborough (another favorite of mine!) “singing” (read: talking) ‘What A Wonderful World’, all set to various nature clips. You know, sometimes I need a reminder that the world isn’t actually the giant shithole I’ve built it up to be in my mind. This? This is that reminder. Hit the jump for the video.

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David Attenborough "Sings" ‘What A Wonderful World’

This is a newly discovered species of Yeti (NOT Batman ) crab. It’s similar to the other hairy-armed Yeti crabs except this one grows edible bacteria on its arms by methodically waving them around in front of deep sea methane vents. And speaking of deep sea methane vents: blue whales . You don’t want to be sitting in a dinghy when one of those fart bubbles surfaces! Hit the jump for two short videos, one of the hairy arm waving, one of chow-time.

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New Yeti Crab Farms Bacteria On Its Arms To Eat