Daily Archives: June 6, 2005

This story from CNN:

Researchers: Dolphins found using tools
WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of dolphins living off the coast of Australia apparently teach their offspring to protect their snouts with sponges while foraging for food in the sea floor.

Reminds me an awful lot of one from The Onion:

Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs
In an announcement with grave implications for the primacy of the species of man, marine biologists at the Hawaii Oceanographic Institute reported Monday that dolphins, or family Delphinidae, have evolved opposable thumbs on their pectoral fins.

I, for one, welcome our new aquatic overlords.

Nice little weekend of insomnia for me. Mostly due to the incoming summer and the fun changes in heat, air pressure and humidity. It’s happened before, so it’s not entirely unexpected, but it’s still not much fun to be sitting around at three in the morning counting sheep number 3587 and wondering if it’s a prime number. (It isn’t by the way, but the lowest prime factor is 17, so it took me a while to figure out in my head)