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Bears. Under da Sea. Monkeys. Info/Activism. Cats. Nature's 6 Most Diabolical Predators. Most of you are well aware of our stance on nature here at Cracked: We're against it. It's scary, it's weird and it keeps trying to kill us. Mother Nature is the world's greatest supervillain, and her cruelty is only outweighed by her deviousness. Sure, none of the diabolical predators below will hurt you personally--that we know of--but just imagine what some of the poor victims go through when these crazy-ass organic ninjas strike. Imagine that you're a moth in New Zealand (please, as if you weren't already). You're whirling around in the dark one night, thinking moth thoughts--how much you like light, you wish you had some light, isn't light great--when you accidentally blunder into a cave. No worries, happens all the time. You spread your wings and spiral up, up into that sparkling sea of stars... and smack your face right into one. Oh god, did you finally do it?!
You turn to flap away to brag to your moth friends back home, but something is pulling you back. O, irony! Now you're dead.
7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes. People who doubt evolution tend to have one main argument: "If evolution is true, why do we still see monkeys running around today, all chimp-like? Where are all the monkey-men I was promised? " Well, if you or someone you know refuses to believe that organisms change over time without proof on a monkey-man level, here are a buttload of animals in the middle of getting their evolve on. Well, seven anyway. Elephants are Evolving to Lose Their Tusks (and Avoid Poachers) Here's a joke: What did the elephant say to the poacher? Answer: Dear God in heaven, please don't kill me for my ivory. Getty"Stop! Sorry about that. GettyAnd ever since animal rights got involved, unemployment has shot up 300 percent.
So elephants have decided to take matters into their own hands ... or trunks or weirdly rounded three-toed feet or whatever. By 2005, it was estimated that the tuskless population had risen to between 5 and 10 percent. GettyJust like your debilitating lisp after reading that out loud Getty. More Than 1,000 Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Arkansas. BEEBE, Ark. — Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town. Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. He said 12 to 15 workers, hired by the city to do the cleanup, wore environmental-protection suits for the task.
The birds had fallen Friday night over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area. The workers from U.S. Robertson said the workers wore the suits as a matter of routine and not out of fear that the birds might be contaminated. Several hundred thousand red-winged blackbirds have used a wooded area in the town as a roost for the past several years, he said. "That pretty much rules out an illness" or poisoning, the mayor said. Animals Being Dicks. Audio slideshow: Human Planet. 3 March 2011Last updated at 09:12 From the icy Arctic to Africa's dense jungles - and the mountain tops of Mongolia to the deep waters of the Pacific - the BBC series Human Planet has explored mankind's incredible relationship with nature.
Accompanying the film crews was photographer Timothy Allen. His stunning still images captured unique glimpses of people living in the world's most extreme environments. Take a look at some of them, and listen to him explain how he snapped the most arresting shots. Continue reading the main story Human Planet will be broadcast on Thursday 3 March at 2000 GMT on BBC One. You can also talk to the programme's producers in a live webchat - Ask Human Planet - at 2100 GMT on Thursday 3 March. Click 'show captions' for image information. Music courtesy KPM Music. Related: Sulphur mining in a volcano What freediving does to the body The male beauty contest judged by women Timothy Allen The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.
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