Bizarre walking strategies of artifically evolved organisms

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Darwin@Home . . . the virtual evolution of walking and running

Here’s a mesmerizing ten-minute video from the Darwin@Home project (which harnesses idle computers to simulate evolution) that shows the different, bizarre randomly evolved walking-strategies that have emerged from the simulations.

Darwin at Home in Ten Minutes

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Boy fed zoo reptiles to crocodile

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Good grief, that’s horrific!

A seven-year-old boy has been filmed killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile at a popular zoo in Australia.

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