Interesting In General

Interesting In General

Photos via Metro

Well, Earth Day is officially over. Which means we can officially forget about that irksome business of saving the planet for another 364 days, and get back to doing what's really important -- which is looking at zany animal pictures, of course. Like, check out this bizarre two-headed bobtail lizard that was discovered in Australia! Also, it turns out that the heads hate each other, and the larger one keeps attacking the smaller one. More photos after the fold:

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Mike Rutzen has an extra special relationship with sharks, and he's working hard to show the world they're really amazing, approachable creatures. Rather than the character out of Jaws, Great Whites are actually smart, sometimes shy, and highly effective hunters. But unfortunately the world is only just starting to understand sharks as key predators in our oceans, that come complete with unique personalities and an understandable body language. Rutzen has decided that there's one way to show just how approachable and readable sharks are - put them into tonic immobility, a natural state of paralysis. Watch him set a shark vertically on its nose under water and hold it there with just one hand.

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Pup on the roof ...

Mike Kai thought one of his surfing buddies was thumping around on his rooftop deck, but it turned out to be a wayward sea lion pup, enjoying the view of Newport Beach at sunrise. Kai said he couldn't imagine how the pup made it up the stairs and onto the roof early Thursday.

The sea lion was taken to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, where volunteers named him Fiddler, after the Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof."

Staff there say he is underweight, probably because he was recently weaned and having trouble finding food on his own.