Thrasher sharks always look cool with their looooong tails. Now it turns out they use those sexy tails to hunt! Link includes a video.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/10/thresher-sharks-hunt-with-huge-weaponised-tails/?preview=true
Cats are liars. At least Margays (a small cat found in Central and South America) lie by imitating the calls of one of their prey species to draw them closer.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100708141620.htm
Things you thought you knew. The truth about the dark side of the moon and the brontosaurus.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/10/science_myths_from_mental_floss_lisa_simpson_was_wrong_about_coriolis_effect.html
And now the stuff of nightmares. The life of the Cicada Killer Wasp! [only the stuff of nightmares if you are an insect, humans have nothing to fear]
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/the-cicada-killers-are-coming/277688/
Weeds - amazing evolutionary success stories and the bane of farmers
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/earth/looking-for-ways-to-beat-the-weeds.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
Back when I used to work (Nya Nya Nya Nya Nya Nya) we had a nest of cicada killer wasp right outside the front entrance each year. When someone would walk to the door they panicked thinking they were being attacked by hornets. We printed out an information sheet about this terrifying looking wasp and gave it to people as they entered.
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