Animal News Update

Knut, the World's Most Famous Polar Bear, is over a year old now and, like most teenagers, just a little grumpy. Those hormones are such a bitch!

What was thought to be an all-female bat colony is either the site of the birth of eight Chiropteran Messiahs, or at least one bat dude look like a lady.

A mutation makes one octopus more like a "hexapus." If I were that aquarium, I'd be wary; no telling what kind of superpowers that mutation might have given it! Let's just hope he uses them for good and not evil.

(Via towleroad; via Pharyngula)