Water droplets create amazing human-like animations. Gatorade built this technology from scratch just for an ad. 2,500 switches turn the water on and off, and motion capture tells it what to do. The results are incredible. (Source)
A record-breaking, 10-inch-long whopper of a bullfrog tadpole was discovered by a crew of ecologists in a pond in Arizona.
The biggest tadpole ever foundâat a whopping 10 inches longâwas discovered
by a crew of ecologists in a pond in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. Alina Downer, an intern at the American Museum of Natural
Historyâs Southwestern Research Station, came across the monster
bullfrog tadpole as her crew was draining a manmade pond as part of a
habitat restoration project for the endangered Chiricahua leopard frog.
As the water level lowered, Â Downer
and her colleagues were assessing what organisms were left in the muddy
shallows that she likened to âchocolate soup.â Downer says, âI Â was
fishing around with my hands while walking in the water, and I felt Â
something large, smooth, and wrigglyâwhich was unexpected, since the
only other fish in the pond were about an inch long.â
As
 an avid naturalist, Downerâs first instinct was curiosity. âAt first I
thought it was a giant catfish,â she says, grinning at the uncanny
memory. âWhatever it was, I knew I had to grab it.â She herded the slippery creature into shallower water until she could capture it. To her surprise, it turned out to be âan enormous monster of a tadpoleââso
big she had to hold it with two handsâŚ
Not to undervalue at all the coolness of this discovery but I feel like the above quote is a valuable supporting evidence of field biologists intrinsically possessing diminished survival instincts and higher numbers of cool scar stories.
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