Space-Saving Aquarium!

A Chinese firm has come up with the perfect solution for fish-lovers who don’t have room for an aquarium: the fish tank toilet!

The toilet has three separate tanks – one for water flowing in, one for water flowing out, and a third for fish and underwater plants – ensuring that the fish always have enough water to swim in, and are never sucked into the bowl.

Oh yeah, and they’re also environmentally friendly… because the flushing tank has been reduced to make space for the fish tank, the toilet uses far less water than regular toilets, and the device that lights the fish tank can also be used instead of bathroom lighting, cutting electricity bills.

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Hallmark Was Never This Clever…

The Sharkproject, an initiative to raise awareness about the threat of shark extinction, centered on finning, had these slick looking mailers created.

Printed on rough paper similar to a shark’s skin, they instruct the recipient where to cut the envelope open, revealing a bloody shark fin stump. Leave it to the Germans to come up with something this cool.

Thanks Scott!

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Pickled Shark Sells For a Cool $17 Mil

Sotheby’s auction house sold a pickled shark by British artist Damien Hirst for more than $17 million.

The two-day auction of the artist’s work that is expected to generate more than 65 million pounds, setting a new record for an auction of works by just one artist.

Hirst is selling more than 200 new works at auction rather than through a gallery. He has said it is a more democratic way to sell art.

An embalmed calf with hooves and horns of 18-karat gold titled “The Golden Calf” also sold for $18.5 million.

The sale continues today so there’s still time to get yourself a little something…

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Hooked: Woman to be Hung From Shark Hooks

Performance artist, Alice Newstead will be hung from shark hooks for 15 minutes in the window of the Lush cosmetics store in Regent Street, London as part of a campaign to end shark finning.

The stunt is designed to mimic the fate of sharks caught solely for their fins.

The process known as finning is where a fin is hacked off and the shark thrown back into the water to die.

Newstead, who is a former employee of Lush, will be “hung” in the shop window at today at noon to promote the launch of their Shark Fin Soap, a blue soap made with seaweed and sea salt with a shark fin sticking out the top.

All funds from the sale of the soap will go to the wildlife conservation charity Sea Shepherd.

Go get some soap.

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Shark Art

Over $80,000 worth of art has been donated to the cause of shark conservation by some of Australia’s greatest living artists.

The artists have joined forces for the sea and the Australian Marine Conservation Society’s (AMCS) annual charity art auction on Friday September 12th 2008. All proceeds from the auction will go towards the marine charity’s campaign to stop targeted shark fishing on the Great Barrier Reef.

Check out all the art at the AMCS Art for Sharks website.

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Enter the Cage of Death!

The Tennessee Aquarium is unveiling a brand new exhibit this Sunday… the Peter Gimbel shark cage!

Peter Gimbel custom designed this cage to film great white sharks. The cage was used while filming the first-ever underwater documentary about sharks, “Blue Water, White Death”. The bars are still bent where a great white attacked the cage.

Aquarium visitors will be able to go into the cage and have their pictures taken with an image of a great white shark in the background.

I suggest wearing your swimsuit and dousing yourself in water before entering the cage for a more authentic picture.

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Paris Gets First “Plastinated” Sea Creature

France’s National Museum of Natural History unveiled the world’s first “plastinated” squid on Tuesday. The 21 foot monster was donated by New Zealand and named in honour of a creature featuring in Maori legend.

Plastination is done by replacing the animal’s water, fat and other liquids with a polymer that hardens. This way, the squid to be viewed in a dry, solid state, rather than in a jar filled with formalin or alcohol.

The squid was hauled up in January 2000 at a depth of 2,000 feet by fishermen off New Zealand.

They should send some of this plastination stuff to Damien Hirst.

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Shark on Wheels

Thanks Brian

Sky Shark

HUMPback Whale?

Click on it for the uncensored version.

thanks Rex!