The pilots of Air Zermatt, a Swiss air rescue and helicopter services company, are renowned for their exceptional alpine flying skills. Here, one of their helicopters lands on a dead tree with remarkable precision.
Octopuses can rapidly edit their own RNA in response to colder temperatures, changing the proteins their nervous system produces within hours.
Whiskey fungus (Baudoinia compniacensis), also called “Angel’s Share fungus” is the black that covers the rickhouses that store bourbon barrels as they age. The ethanol that evaporates creates the conditions that allows this fungus to grow. You could scrub it off but it would be covered in 3 wks.
