Sometimes when he's lovin' me, he ain't...

Time for some more animal porn.  I'm not sure you call this bestiality, but I guess it's sort of similar. From BBC News:

An Antarctic fur seal has been observed trying to have sex with a king penguin.

The South African-based scientists who witnessed the incident say it is the most unusual case of mammal mating behaviour yet known.

The incident, which lasted for 45 minutes and was caught on camera, is reported in the Journal of Ethology.

The bizarre event took place on a beach on Marion Island, a sub-Antarctic island that is home to both fur seals and king penguins.

Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear. But the scientists who photographed the event speculate that it was the behaviour of a frustrated, sexually inexperienced young male seal.

Equally, it might be been an aggressive, predatory act; or even a playful one that turned sexual.
"At first glimpse, we thought the seal was killing the penguin," says Nico de Bruyn, of the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

And all of it caught on film.  Scandalous!

Killer germs from outer space...

I was always under the impression that some crazy killer microorganism was going to be released from the abyss of the sea while humans dug into the inhospitable ocean depths for oil and mineral deposits. But who would have thought that our mere excursions into space might actually be responsible for creating some deadly pandemic to the Earth? From The New York Times:

The germ: Salmonella, best known as a culprit of food poisoning. The trip: Space Shuttle STS-115, September 2006. The reason: Scientists wanted to see how space travel affects germs, so they took some along -- carefully wrapped -- for the ride. The result: Mice fed the space germs were three times more likely to get sick and died quicker than others fed identical germs that had remained behind on Earth.

Apparently, 167 genes in the "space" Salmonella had mutated, possibly in response to their microgravity environment.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I'm not trying to make you think back to those bad videos we had to watch in science class...

I still have flashbacks of having to draw all these things out for biology exams. Too bad I didn't have cool animations like this to study with: