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An Italian team of archaeologists unearthed the bowl in the 1970s from a burial site in Iran’s Burnt City, but it was only recently that researchers noticed the images on the bowl tell an animated visual story.The oldest cartoon character in the world is a goat leaping to get the leaves on a tree.

Fantastic AnimationCreated by Vancouver Film School student Lloyd Colaco through the VFS 3D Animation & Visual Effects program.

A study led by Brown University biologist Casey Dunn uses new genomics tools to answer old questions about animal evolution. The study is the most comprehensive animal phylogenomic research project to date, involving 40 million base pairs of new DNA data taken from 29 animal species.

Millions of years before the dinosaurs were apparently killed by an asteroid hitting our planet, Earth experienced another mass extinction that was far more devastating. The cause for that was actually homegrown: Hydrogen sulfide in the oceans & atmosphere turned the sky green and choked off oxygen for plants, animals and marine life….

Picking up where Genndy Tartakovsky’s beyond-cool Clone Wars 2D-animated series left off in 2005, Lucasfilm is actively in production of a 3D-animated, 100-episode, PG-13 rated Clone Wars TV series that’s scheduled to air on the Cartoon Network and TNT. Using interviews and news stories, the feature predicts what we’ll see and what we won’t.

A paternal dog has adopted an abandoned baby goat as his surrogate child. Billy the boxer has become the constant companion of the 12-day old kid called Lilly. He sleeps with the goat, licks her clean, and protects her from any dangers at Pennywell Farm wildlife centre at Buckfastleigh, near Totnes, Devon.

Whether they hibernate, have thick fur coats or take shelter, animals are masters of surviving the cold weather. Here are a few extraordinary cases.

According to scientists, fishes’ numerical abilities were actually on a par with the abilities of monkeys and human infants between 6 and 12 months old, who were both able to visually count small numbers and less accurately estimate larger ones.

And you thought your parents had weird sexual habits.

Video for Mova’s Contour facial capture system: "This pushes Unreal Engine 3 to its very limit … it’s about as photo-real as you can get in real time."

A squat beachball sized toad dubbed ‘the frog from Hell’ has been found in Madagascar, where it once may have snacked on baby dinosaurs and other small animals.The 70 million year-old fossil frog is likened by researchers to a "slightly squashed beach-ball" and has been nicknamed Beelzebufo.

Christopher Lloyd has stepped back in front of the cameras, reprising the now classic role of Doc Brown from the Back to the Future trilogy. The last time Lloyd appeared as Doc Brown was in 1992 for live-action segments of the Back to the Future animated series But Sadly . . .

With Hollywood running short on ideas, Paramount greenlit a computer animated movie based on the classic trippy 80’s cartoon series The Smurfs (Truth is that the Smurfs are actually 50 years old, having first appeared in comic strips).

The animated Batman DVD will look amazing, judging from the clips you can see in this promo reel. Batman: Gotham Knight will come out when Batman: The Dark Knight hits the big screen. Click through for details.

Stephen Hobley just perfected his laser harp. The audio is adjusted by breaking the beam between the source and mirror array above. No, you can’t buy it, but we expect it to appear with a Ukranian dressed in animal skins at Eurovision 2008.

Nothing "beats" this list of 10 cool facts about animals and their hearts. (Perfect conversation topic for those Valentine’s Day dates)

Google’s evolved the Android UI and it looks a lot better than it did before, with animations and an overall look and feel that seems more iPhone/HipTop than Windows mobile. They keep improving like this, Android could really be great.

While doing the press rounds for Vantage Point, Matthew Fox of Lost spoke a bit about the upcoming summer movie, Speed Racer, and his role as Racer X. He dished some dirt and shared a few thoughts on working on Speed Racer with the Wachowski Brothers, what he’s seen of the early footage, and the differences between the animated hit and the film.

Every year, beginning right about now, an area of the ocean the size of New Jersey dies at the mouth of the Mississippi. A new USGS study shows that the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone is caused mainly from corn and soy fertilizers and animal wastes running off of the seven states.

A British scientific team discovered the 405-year-old clam, named after the Chinese dynasty and not the former Liberal Democrat leader, at the bottom of the ocean, and hope its longevity will reveal the secrets of ageing.

"We have received confirmation that the animated movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be playing in theaters on August 15th later this year! The movie is a full-length feature developed from the 25-episode animated Clone Wars series that played on Cartoon Network a few years back."

One of the strangest meal-times in the animal kingdom has been caught on film. A female worm-like amphibian, called a caecilian, allows her young to peel off and eat her skin.

A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa.

Even in movies where the plot doesn’t make sense, the acting is hammy, and you don’t really care whether the characters live or die, a good crash sequence can rouse the audience from their boredom and at least engage their animal instincts. Here’s our list of the five best crashes in modern day scifi — with beautiful video carnage.

What’s new in this release: Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation; Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit; Several fixes to the animation control; A bunch of fixes for regression test failures; Lots of bug fixes.

Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency. University of Michigan engineers are studying these animals as a step toward designing flapping-wing planes with wingspans smaller than a deck of playing cards.

"I have to admit after being down in a sub and spending time looking at video feeds from ROV’s, the crazy animals I see from the deep start to become commonplace. That is why the below video is absolutely off the freakin’ hook! Dr. Eric Vetter was in a submersible off the coast of Moloka’i when a 6-gill shark, at an estimated 17ft, swam…"

Here are six animals that youll probably want to steer clear of, no matter how adorable they look on that wall calendars.

A backpack using technology borrowed from the iPod and Nintendo Wii has helped scientists learn how an exotic animal flies.

Why is it that strange animal stories always seem to hit at once like a pack of rabid buffalo? It has only been a month and there are already a number of incredibly bizarre, tragic and hilarious animal-related news stories to kick off 2008. It’s like the zodiac year for every animal at the same time!

I can has waves? Sporting animals are nothing new - horseracing, polo and other equestrian classics notwithstanding, recent years have seen YouTube’s famous skateboarding dog and a sports-mad pigeon trying a little too hard to get involved in baseball. A surfing Pussy is something different.

Groundhogs have their day in the sun on Saturday, when Punxsutawney Phil and other furry rodents across the country are dragged out to judge whether there will be six more weeks of wintry weather…."For hibernators like groundhogs and the ground squirrels that we study, they’re on a biological clock that tells them when to start to hibernate

A new species of mammal has been discovered in the mountains of Tanzania, scientists report. The bizarre-looking creature, dubbed Rhynochocyon udzungwensis, is a type of giant elephant shrew, or sengi. The cat-sized animal, which is reported in the Journal of Zoology, looks like a cross between a miniature antelope and a small ant eater.

A stream of dark and putrid sludge snakes through Gaza’s streets. It is a noxious mix of human and animal waste. The stench is overwhelming. The occasional passer-by vomits.

The High Court in Singapore has ordered an ISP to hand over the personal details of its customers who used BitTorrent to share Japanese anime titles, overturning a previous decision. The decision will likely pave the way to taking legal action against hundreds more BitTorrent users.

There are many social media addicts in this world. You see it every day on Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon. What you may or may not know is whether or not you are one of them. One of the symptoms: Within 0.03 seconds, you can look at a cute picture of an animal and know whether or not it was photoshopped.

From 1989-1997, the self-anointed “King of Beers” won six of Anheuser-Busch’s eight Bud Bowls, the yearly clash between animated bottles of Bud and Bud Light that was featured in a series of commercials during the Super Bowl. Here is a complete history of everything you ever wanted to know about the Bud Bowls.

Les Machines de l’ile de Nantes are gigantic mechanical animal vehicles currently on display in the French city of Nantes. While they just look like giant models, these things are fully functioning vehicles that people can ride in.

The remnants of a Naval ammunition depot are now an animal research center where government scientists are working to unlock secrets contained in the genetic makeup of the cattle. Their focus: the E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria.

So many amazing animals, so little we know about them! This is your chance to get more up to date with some rare animals. The Zoological Society has published the list of 10 most rare and unusual kinds of amphibians, threatened by extinction and to be included in new conservation programs set for 2008.

(Reuters) - The 600 cloned animals in the United States most likely have not produced offspring, an official with the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday, as the agency downplayed the long-term impact…

Here’s a little refresher course for the next time you find yourself in front of a mounted hog thinking "well she does love animals…"

There have been a lot of great TV cartoon series over the decades, but only a few deserve the moniker of “twisted.” Here are our choices for the ten most twisted cartoons on American TV.

If you’re distracted by lolcats at work all day, new evidence from evolutionary biology suggests it’s not your fault. A study from Yale explains that human visual attention evolved to track images of animals — and lolcat images awaken our buried evolutionary impulses.

I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal.

British regulators said Thursday they have approved two proposals for research using human embryos derived from animal eggs.

The U.S. government ruled on Tuesday that food from cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as other food, opening the door to bringing meat and milk from clone offspring into the food supply. ”Extensive…

Would you eat meat or drink milk derived from cloned animals? The question is now one that consumers need to consider seriously.

An official report from PETA shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. The average euthanasia rate for humane societies in the state was just 34.7 percent.

Vietnam’s Hanoi Zoo has come up with an innovative, and illegal, method of raising funds: auctioning off tiger bodies to illegal animal traffickers.

Npower is about to illegally destroy a huge lake in the UK. This will wipe out 15 species of birds and leave a barren landscape of waste. What’s worse is that they are intimidating the local authoritary to grant them planning permission. Please help us bring this injustice to light. Thank you very much.

With amphibians facing population crashes around the world, the red-eyed tree frog has become a poster species for rainforest conservation. Watch the life cycle of tree frogs — from birth, maturity, reproduction, and predation by insects, snakes, and caimans. Stunning, beautiful photos, but not for the weak-hearted!

"Deforestation and wildfires for agriculture and grazing have denuded much of the birds’ habitat, conservationists say. The parrot that is distinguished by its bright blue fronted head and white breast may also be threatened by illegal trade in the species."