It’s amazing just how adaptable trees can be.  They grow just about anywhere, in just about every climate, and can survive almost anything.  Their hardiness results in the trees that have a lot of quirky, unusual, or just plain strange features, like the 14 trees featured over at Treehugger.

In the aftermath of our ice storm, there are tree limbs everywhere.  Branches snapped off left and right thanks to that ice, even worse than it was in September when the remains of Hurricane Ike swept through and left most of the city powerless for an entire week.  Along the street everywhere you go are piles of stacked branches waiting to be picked up and mulched by the city, or drying piles of fire lumber.  A lot of trees didn’t make it through that storm

Yet some of those trees, the ones that I thought were broken beyond repair, are recovering.  There was a Douglas fir that had bent in half due to the weight of ice.  As I rode past it this morning, it was standing as straight and tall as ever, unlike my neighbor’s basketball goal or my flag pole.

Tags: strange trees, unusual trees, plants, nature, image gallery, pictures, treehugger

All college student Toby Elles wanted to do was eat a little snack before going to bed.  He’d been out, drinking of course, and he needed nature’s perfect hangover food to keep him warm and help him sleep off his partying.  So he got out the frying pan, threw on some bacon, and promptly fell […]

There are some mutations that allow a creature to be more effective doing what it does, and then there are just random things that happen.  For example, there’s a certain penguin that eats like his mages, waddles around like his mates, socializes and hangs out and generally, does what all the other penguins do.  There’s […]

Everything in the body has a circuit it runs.  That’s what makes the body such an efficient machine; it’s an actual machine.  From the air we breathe to the blood in our veins and beyond, all the body’s systems are all circuits, with stopping points, entry points, and transfer stations.  That’s what makes Underskin, a […]

You know, I’ve never had a guinea pig as a pet, but I know a look of sheer terror when I see one, and that is a look of sheer terror.  That Guinea Pig could not be any less happy than he is right there, dressed like Superman.  Any time you put an animal in […]

When Tavis Coburn of the UK advertising agency Dutch Uncle was approached to put together some movie posters to honor the 2010 BAFTA Awards, he drew his inspiration from the past, rather than the future.  The end result is a group of incredible retro movie posters for the biggest critical hits of 2009-2010, including An […]

In what is proof that good ideas are never abandoned, just temporarily sidelined, recent NASA budget cuts have forced the company to, once again, turn to nontraditional means in which to continue space exploration.   When first proposed in the 1960’s, inflatable spacecraft seemed like a great idea.  Goodyear developed a prototype rubber space station (seen […]

One of the few things I agree with PETA on is their drive to spay and neuter pets.  People can be pretty irresponsible with their animals, and there are too many innocent little animals getting euthanasia in shelters for me to approve of most folks owning intact pets.  Of course, some people are irresponsible in […]