The Painted Cat

I know these Painted Cat images have been making the rounds for a while now, but my Mom is dead so I never got the email. One of my StumbleUpon buddies, PetLvr has more of the images on his blog-though he seems to think some are Photoshopped. These days you can do all kinds of stuff with hair, so I tend to believe they are really painted cats. As the joke goes, it’s a nice painted pussy, but is it art? Over the years I have owned a number of cats and found that nature itself does a pretty good…

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Beelzebufo:Frog From Hell

Beelzebufo ampinga was a really big frog that lived about 60 million years ago, around the time of the dinosaurs. So even if you were a frog the size of a bowling ball, how much a chance would you have against a T-Rex and a Raptor? Beelzebufo, or the frog from hell, had armor and teeth and lived in Madagascar. The illustration here is of the Pacman frog, a very large and scary modern frog. The closest thing we have to Beelzebufo are cane toads. There was a lot of talk about Cane Toads a few years ago, after the…

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