A stray cat in Izmir, Turkey recently crashed an Imperial Russian Ballet performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, curling up to play with the lifeless Romeo’s hair after his tragic death. Admittedly, that’s some luscious looking hair, and I’d have a hard time not playing with it myself. Sometimes I

A partnership between biotech startup Lab-Grown Leather, genomic engineering firm The Organoid Company and creative agency VML, T-Rex Leather is lab-grown leather created using the reconstructed collagen sequences of a t-rex. Some more details while I speculate how long until Texas Roadhouse is grilling dino steaks. To engineer leather from

I was just thinking the other day how badly my car was missing a wagging tail. Well prayers do get answered, folks — prayers do get answered. Granted not my prayers because I didn’t pray for a waving tail car accessory, I only thought about it. I save my prayers

Because there are very few pieces of art that can’t be elevated with the addition of some cats, this is the Mona Lisa Cat Bed (links to Amazon product page). It’s a 3D cardboard rendering of the Mona Lisa with a spot for your cat to sit. And, if you

This is a video of paleontologist Danielle Dufault of Animalogic discussing the unique physiology of the red-lipped batfish. Not to be confused with a batman, this multi-species named mutant has a beard, bioluminescent horn, and little front leg-fins it uses to walk along the bottom of the seafloor. See? Nothing

This is a short video from a vacationer in Playa del Carmen of a monkey doing its best human impression to walk into a hotel and steal a cookie from the buffet. Now that is some good posture. If I had posture like that maybe I wouldn’t have all this

This is a delightful video from Epic Aussie Encounters featuring a variety of Australian wildlife seeing themselves in a mirror for the first time. There are birds, possums, kangaroos, more birds, wallabies, and more birds. I love birds, so this worked out well for me. Mirrors do not work out

158 juvenile giant tortoises were recently reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, where the local subspecies went extinct in the 1840s thanks to being easy pickings for sailors on long voyages to keep fresh meat at sea. Those sailors are lucky the Ninja Turtles weren’t around back then.