h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You're right, Mr. X. This means that a kangaroo's pouch is a combination of bra and baby carrier, something humans haven't invented yet.

I'm never going to be rich.

PP.

Kangaroos are marsupials but still are part of the class Mammalia.

Yes their 4 milk glands are inside the pouch and they are able to produce 2 different qualities of milk for joeys at different stages of growth at the same time.

They are herbivorous like cattle, which release large quantities of methane through exhaling and burping, but kangaroos release virtually none. The byproduct of fermentation is converted into acetate, which is then used to provide further energy. Scientists are interested in the possibility of transferring the bacteria responsible from kangaroos to cattle, since the greenhouse gas effect of methane is 23 times greater than that of carbon dioxide, per molecule.

Further study into this proved that kangaroos do, indeed, fart quite a bit, roughly as much as horses.

This radio program was my flatological source.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-internet-asks-does-it-fart-and-science-answers/

*** Breaking News ***

The question is: What to do with the bits of broken news?

It just requires a bullet in.

Having a bullet in will break a lot of things, not just news.

Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets (monozygotic embryony).

Oh, lord, how did we live without this fact?

Hey, I've lived in Texas for half a century and I didn't know this before.


I knew Texas horned toad lizards can squirt blood from their eyes when provoked, but I didn't know our armadillos squeezed out quads every birth.

Texas is a wild place...

Unlike modern placental carnivores and herbivores, which originate from separate shrew lineages following the KT disaster, armadillos belong to the archaic group of placental mammals, with lineages predating the KT boundary.

Well, that doesn't make me feel any better about it...

It helps when so few of them can get across the road intact the tire tracks make it hard to count the bands

F S

I've always thought their survival inspirational, a tribute to how quickly the little devils could dig in against the KT global firestorm.

Yep, armadillos have some interesting relatives; anteaters, echidnas, & pangolins.

For more info, see this hilarious video on the True Facts of the Pangolin Posse. http://youtu.be/mbnBYh-BJ1g

That is ing brilliant writing!

In the recent Zimbabwe elections, it was illegal for parties to use an owl on their logos. Or a secretary bird.

I regularly see at least 4 commercials on TV featuring animated owls.

One's for a for-profit school, one's for a travel booking website, one's for a chain of optometrists, the fourth I forget.