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One Weird Fish! The Goblin Shark REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)March 21, 2026

From July 6, 2017

Hi, Mr. Nature here–with a deep-sea creature that looks like the product of a special effects crew.

The goblin shark wasn’t discovered until 1898. It has two far-out features. First, that long thing sticking way out the top of its head. It’s not a nose or a horn. It’s full of tiny sensors that enable the shark, in deep and lightless waters, to detect electrical fields given off by living things it might want to eat.

The second weird feature is a set of jaws that can be shot out in front of its head to catch prey–sort of like the choppers on the monster in Alien. Zap! Gotcha!

The shark in the video probably didn’t mean to attack the diver, and only accidentally got its teeth caught in the wet suit. This gives us a really good look at those extendable jaws.

Probably the closest look we’ll ever want to get.

Mr. Nature: The Last Thylacine REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)February 26, 2026

From June 30, 2018

These video clips, taken at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania, preserve the memory of an animal that is now supposedly extinct–the thylacine, aka “Tasmanian tiger,” once upon a time the largest living marsupial carnivore. The last one died at the zoo in 1936.

Mr. Nature here, with an animal that I wish was still alive. And it may be. Over the years, hundreds, if not thousands, of people have claimed to have sighted living thylacines on the Australian mainland. Some of them back up their claims with videos, a few of which look quite convincing. So it’s possible there may be a few of them left, roaming the outback. The long, stiff tails, and the stripes along the back, are distinctive: no other animal has them.

Jack and Ellayne encountered a much larger version of a thylacine in Lintum Forest, carrying off, in its massive jaws, the front half of a knuckle-bear.

I don’t think God likes it when we kill off members of His creation.

But I also believe He’ll bring them back, someday, somewhere–if He hasn’t done it already, someplace where they’re safe from us.

What Hath God Wrought! REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)February 19, 2026

From June 20, 2020

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I just can’t see how anyone can observe nature and not believe in its Creator.

Behold the ocean sunfish! I was totally intrigued by this creature, when I became old enough to page through books and magazines and at least look at the pictures. It didn’t look at all like any other fish! I mean, come on–it’s like a great big head without a body.

But look at it in its natural habitat. Here it works just fine. Here it moves gracefully.

And then a platoon of little fish come along to clean the parasites off its skin!

“Evolved by blind chance–” Uh-huh. But it’s not chance that’s blind.

The Incredible Ibex

leeduigon(patty)January 30, 2026

So It’s Not Satire… REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)January 8, 2026

From August 15, 2016

Hey! Remember this? How we defenseless taxpayers of America paid over $400,000 to some idiot “professor” to pioneer “feminist glaciology” and “the connection between gender and glaciers”?

So you thought I was kidding yesterday when I wrote “Physics goes P.C.”? Well, so did I–but now I’m not so sure. I mean, here we’ve got a “feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial approach” to the study of glaciers. What the blazes does that mean?

We are asked–if not ordered–to believe in “science” as the ultimate arbiter of truth. If “science” says it ain’t so, then it ain’t so: sayonara, Book of Genesis. And if “science” says it’s so, then it’s so: come on in, feminist glaciology! Here, you can sit down right here, between Climate Change and Evolution.

Is what we call “science” even science anymore?

If you say yes, lots of luck trying to prove it.

The Shire Horse

leeduigon(patty)December 28, 2025

Honest, This Is Not a Satire REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)February 21, 2026

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“Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies…”

How ridiculous can Far Left race-hustlers get?

The following is not a satire.

A number of, um, “scientists” have blasted the Discovery Channel’s annual “Shark Week” for [kazoo fanfare]–

–“It’s too white!” (Boo, hiss, where did all those white folks come from?)

–“There are too many guys named Mike in it.” (Go figure.)

–“It perpetuates negative stereotypes of sharks!”

And a new grievance group has been formed: “Minorities in Shark Studies.” ‘Cause I guess every ethnicity now will come to its own conclusions about reality. Every bunch of dindles gets its own science.

Do these people need to get out more? Are they watching too much TV? Do they have so little to worry about in life that they can take the time to indulge this?

Sanity Break: A Most Eccentric Cat

leeduigon(patty)December 14, 2025

From April 17, 2016

Obviously this cat likes sticking her head under running water. Why she likes it, that’s a mystery. She looks a bit like one of our cats, Peep, who wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing.

One thing about cats, dogs, rats, mice, iguanas, turtles, and other animals–each has his own personality. They’re individuals.

Especially the cat in this video.

The Battling ‘Roos of Suburbia

leeduigon(patty)December 11, 2025

From May 5, 2017

G’day, mate! Mr. Nature here, somewhere in the suburbs in Australia, just in time for an early-morning fight between two male kangaroos.

These guys can get up to eight feet tall when they stand on their hind legs; and with the sturdy tail available as a third leg, they can kick with both hind legs at once. Meanwhile, they punch and scratch with their clawed forepaws.

I don’t see anybody running outside to break this up.

Why did God make kangaroos so fierce?

He didn’t. It’s the fallen world that made them fierce. And anyway, the occasional ferocity of male kangaroos in mating season hardly holds a candle to the ferocity of human beings toward one another.

God is at work, even now, to restore His creation to its original state of purity. We wonder why it’s taking Him so long.

But I know one thing for sure: I’d rather He did it than us.