Category Archives: Weirdscifacts

Been a busy week for me, and posting has been light.  I haven’t neglected the Twitter #weirdscifacts, however! 550. Sep 14: Have you ever heard of a turtle without a shell? Cantor’s giant softshell turtle is a real oddity: the … Continue reading →

Here are the week’s Twitter #weirdscifacts! 543. Sep 07: The “massacre of Monkey Hill“.  In this insightful post by @ericmjohnson on the evolutionary origins of collective violence, the massacre is described.  In 1930, a newly-installed colony of 140 baboons had been … Continue reading →

Here are this week’s Twitter #weirdscifacts! Due to a death in the family, I was traveling and had a difficult time finding facts on some days, but thankfully others stepped in to help me out, and we have two for … Continue reading →

Here are the Twitter #weirdscifacts for the past week! 529. Aug 24: Avg density of the planet Saturn is so low, it would float in a (sufficiently large) bucket of water. Of course, there are some major caveats to this — … Continue reading →

The past week’s Twitter #weirdscifacts, right on schedule! 522. Aug 17: Ancient Damascus swords shown to contain very state-of-the-art carbon nanotubes!  I’m planning to blog about this next week — though carbon nanotubes are relatively new to science, they were … Continue reading →

Yet another week of Twitter #weirdscifacts!  Have a healthy amount of weird creatures at the end of this week’s list. 515. Aug 10: Werewolves do exist! Sort of. The very odd medical condition hypertrichosis.  516. Aug 11: A successful treatment … Continue reading →

Still going with the Twitter #weirdscifacts! They’re getting much harder to find, so if you have any to suggest, please let me know! 508. Aug 03: Swede held for attempting to build nuclear reactor in his kitchen.  Note the word … Continue reading →

Time for your weekly dose of weird, courtesy of my Twitter #weirdscifacts! 501. July 27: Sand tiger shark: only shark known to adjust its buoyancy by burping! I don’t know about you, but I never thought to put the words … Continue reading →

Here are the week’s #weirdscifacts from Twitter!  This marks the 500th weird fact I’ve done, as well! 494. July 20: A migration strategy for some snails: get eaten by birds? How did snails manage to spread across so many islands … Continue reading →

Back from Toronto, and working on some more posts.  In the meantime, here are the past week’s Twitter #weirdscifacts! 487. July 13: Half he, half she. A rare chimeric butterfly has been born in London.  (via @lucasbrowers) 488. July 14: … Continue reading →