I am far too proud of myself for not making a single dick joke while writing this article [...]
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I write this thing, it gets published! Woop woop! Over [...] It’s Monday. Nobody wants to work. Let’s just have some awesome and crazy critters instead. Never forget, the world is a wonderful and weird place. Darwin’s Beetle (be sure to watch till the very end) Galapagos Batfish (linked because Flickr doesn’t allow embeds) Have a grand week, to all [...]
Chimps are more or less our cousins in an evolutionary sense. I find it absolutely intriguing that the way they see and deal with death is something that we can identify with readily. While we might find it difficult to accept how at home they are with corpses, hanging around them for months at [...] My Semi-regular Science column is up at io9. Today’s topic: How to Track [...] Meet Cephalotes varians, the Turtle Ant. I only just found out about these wonderful critters from the wonderful blog Myrmecos. These little fellows have a worker variant with this impressive flat-top. The hive inhabits already existing cavities and holes in a tree trunk. When it comes time to defend their nest, the larger, armored workers plug the [...]
Tyrannobdella rex, a newly discovered leech that lives in your nose. It gets up to 6.5 cm long, and has a single row of comparatively gigantic teeth. Read on for [...] With the recent announcement of the world’s deepest volcanic vent spotted, here’s a very cool bit of news about how life works down in the deep dark. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute were researching a hydrothermal opening in the Pacific, and happened to be observing it when it erupted, effectively killing the entire ecosystem associated with [...] |
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