A study released on Tuesday revealed that elephant seals were instrumental in gathering additional information on ice formation, ocean currents, and climate change. Learn more about this after the jump!

Want some brain food? We're serving a platter of delectable trivial delights to lighten up your day - maybe enlighten your brain too. Here's a list of fifteen facts - probably the most useless facts that you'll even come across, but knowledge is knowledge and it pays to learn certain things too. Who knows, it might save you life one day (especially with the Large Hadron Collider's looming activation date)! Trivia can't get any more trivial than this!

A piglet with a monkey's face was born in China. I cannot, in good conscience, crop the picture of said mutant pig-monkey and place it here in the short version, so here's Spanky Ham for you. You'll just have to see it in the full article if you think you can handle... DNA GONE MAD!

If it isn't polar bears in the North Pole, it's penguins in the South. Hundreds of dead baby penguins have washed up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro over the past two months. Story in the full article.

So the North Pole is melting and polar bears are on the verge of extinction. Solution? Ship 'em off to the other pole, to Antarctica. Lame. Story in the full article.

Meteors? Volcanoes? Pish posh. The greatest cause of mass extinction, as a new study suggests, and The Day After Tomorrow attests, is the ocean. In case you were wondering, this doesn't count the great dino die-off. Story in the full article.

Like a scene from a bad B-horror movie, swarms of crazed ants have infiltrated the state of Texas and is now wreaking havoc throughout its electrical infrastructures. Known as the crazy rasberry ants - crazy, cos they do not follow those ant lines we usually see and are erratically wandering off, and rasberry, named after Tom Rasberry who battled it out with them previously - they have found Texan electrical wirings to be delicious for some odd, crazy reason.

Everybody can think of certain rare occasions when they were at the right place at the right time. That certainly applies to a group of tourists, their boat skipper and their tour operator. All of them managed to film some killer whales holding a dolphin hunt in Algoa Bay, off the coast of South Africa recently. More on this serendipitous find after the jump.

The predator and prey scenario has always been a natural recurring thing in nature. Scientists from the University of Bristol conducted a study which looked into the prey instincts of European starlings and how they respond to stimulus from predators. Find out more about this in our full article after the jump.

We're serving one giant heap of calamari news today. Apparently a giant squid was caught in the Antarctic waters last 2007. Now, it's being thawed at the Museum of New Zealand. According to scientists, if the giant animal was still alive, its eyes would be as big as beach balls. Read more on their findings in the full article.