Worms, organize!
It’s not just ants and naked mole rats that organize into eerily intelligent colonies, Discovery News says. Worms are getting in on the action, too: […]
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Duck penis competition.
This is so going to trigger spam filters, but I don’t care. Science News has reported breaking news… that male ducks grow bigger penises when […]
Lungless, projectile-tongued salamander discovered.
And it’s up to the Guardian to tell me about the latest critter found in Appalachia: Its jaw and tooth structure suggest that it uses […]
Radioactive boars rising.
Oh. OK. Discovery is reporting that the population of radioactive boars is increasing in Europe: Radioactive wild boars are on the rise in Germany, where […]
Science Art: Seals, from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature.
Click to embiggen Seals and seal hunters, from Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, exact publication date unknown but currently accessible at archive.org. They […]
The mosquito conundrum: Why not kill ’em all?
Nature wades into the controversy, asking scientists what would really happen if we killed all the mosquitoes: A stronger argument for keeping mosquitoes might be […]
Science Art: “Lemurs,” from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 1844.
Lemurs. The monkey-like creatures found sporting with the chameleons on Madagascar, what? Look at all of them. There are some marmosets and manikins in there […]
SONG: Crocodile Surf
SONG: “Crocodile Surf”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Crocodiles go with the flow”, Nature, 7 June 2010, as used in […]
Better prostate exam? Good dog!
LiveScience examines the way dogs save human lives – by sniffing out prostate cancer: Doctors at Paris’s Hospital Tenon trained the [Belgian Malinois] dogs to […]
Crocodile surf
Nature tracks crocodile migrations, showing how they get around by surfing: Zoologists didn’t know how the reptiles travelled such long distances given the sustained level […]
Science Art: Catharte de la Californie, Encyclopédie d’histoire naturelle – oiseaux vol. 1, 1860.
Click to embiggen The California Condor, as pictured in the Paris-published The Natural History Encyclopedia – Birds, Vol. 1. By comparison, this was printed at […]
Anderson & Reed make dog music.
Fixing the BBC’s headline here (and wife??) while celebrating a new, high frequency project by Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, dog musicians: US rock star […]
Bat sex: Dirty enough to make trouble.
New Scientist uncorks a biological scandal involving research into the naughty things bats do after dark: University College Cork in Ireland is coming under international […]
Swap DNA with bugs.
Feeling like you need more intimacy in your life? Science Daily reveals an alternative to finding that special person in your life. Nature provides a […]
Friendlier dragons.
Explorers in the Philippines have, New Scientist reports, just discovered a cousin of the fearsome Komodo dragon that eats fruit: Measuring 2 metres long, Varanus […]