ancient fossil shark filmed off Tokyo

Frilled Shark

This female frilled shark, a tattered and battered yet still magnificent and intimidating remnant of an ancient and presumed extinct species, surfaced near Tokyo yesterday. Unfortunately it died within minutes of its capture by workers from the Awashima Marine Park. Over 1.6 meters in length and of apparently advanced age, the shark is presumed to have been driven to the surface from its normal habitat between 600 and 1000 meters down by the mystery illness that ultimately proved fatal.

More information on the frilled shark is available here and here.

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pic o’ the day: Sable Island Horses

A collection of photos of Canada‘s wild Sable Island horses taken in 2002 by Robert Dutesco, via Bridlepath. Here is a teaser.

Sable Island horse by Robert Dutesco

pic o’ the day: a mystery picture!

Can you guess what it is? Click to find out.

click to solve the mysterious mystery

tag, I’m it.

no, that's not me. But boy, would I look that smug if I lived there!So…five things you STILL don’t know about me, eh? Fine, I’ve got a lot of secrets; I could be doing these until the cows come home and not run out of material, particularly since I have never had any cows, so if they showed up they would still not count as coming home, so there.

Naomi and DefrostIndoors have both tagged me for the 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me meme, and I’ve put them off long enough. Here goes.

  1. the raven is my totem animal, and yes, I went on a spiritquest to find this out.
  2. I have always wanted to own Krak des Chevaliers and I’d live in it, too, regardless how primitive and drafty it was.
  3. I’d consider the Bunsen Lake power station an adequate substitute. Or Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness. What can I say, I’m just not a cottage-y person.
  4. I have quite a thing for old, decayed mirrors that have gone all fuzzy, and once tried to have one shipped back from Indonesia. It cost me five bucks to buy, would have cost something like two hundred to ship, so no dice.
  5. My family used to own a haunted inn, and I was always jealous of people who could see the ghost; I only ever heard him.

So now I have to pass this along? Alrighty, then. I tag…hmmm, I’ll have to think about this. I’m running out of friends. While I’m thinking, you can read Geoffrey Chaucer‘s answers.

the custody battle from hell

This is a dead dog. Just wait for it.Oooooh, this isn’t going to end well.

The short version is:

  • a woman’s dog died at the vet.
  • Someone claiming to be a friend of hers picked it up.
  • Turns out that was no friend; it was her ex-husband.
  • Now she wants the dog back, but he says he’s going to bury it instead, nyeah, nyeah.
  • The charge is larceny.

Thank god some couples don’t have children: they are children.