The first time I heard about fishers was when I was discussing a little-known Florida cryptid, the “cracker dog-killer,” with a friend from Vermont. They seemed like they … Read the rest “The fishers are back, in Washington at least.”
According to the accompanying text, this illustration depicts a baboon species “easily distinguished by its tail, which is four inches long, slender, and exactly like a pig’s.”… Read the rest “Science Art: Pigtailed Baboon, 1811.”
Nature reports on polar bears who appear to be adapting to climate change by altering their hunting strategies to survive in a world without sea ice:
… Read the rest “Polar bears without sea ice (a story of hope).”Researchers identified the genetically
Science magazine reveals the first known case of a mammal mimicking insect noises, in a study that found greater mouse-eared bats imitate stinging insect buzzes to keep owls and other potential… Read the rest “Bats mimic buzzing hornets to scare predators away.”
This is a pair of water-voles looking ready for a Wind in the Willows-style adventure, only without any waistcoats or trousers. They’re featured in a chapter on “The Rabbit”… Read the rest “Science Art: Water-voles, 1911.”
This is a chameleon seen inside and out in Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des animaux, by Claude Perrault, an early text on natural history with all kinds of exotic … Read the rest “Science Art: Caméleon, Sébastien Le Clerc, 1676”
From an impressive page of bird diagrams in the Rand, McNally & Co.’s Encyclopedia and Gazetteer. “Birds are in some ways the highest of vertebrate animals,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Head of Falcon, Showing Beak, Nostril, Eye, and Ear…, 1889”
An illustration of two reptiles, from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium II. These two creatures were painted sometime in the first decade of the 1700s by German illustrator Dorothea… Read the rest “Science Art: Spectacled Caiman and a False Coral Snake by Dorothea Maria Graff”
This bat is probably misnamed, since its wings are hands and it has a digit in those wings it would recognize as a thumb, just a very small one that is “enclosed in the edge of the wing membrane,”… Read the rest “Science Art: Thumbless Bat, 1857”
That’s the funniest lookin’ carrot I’ve ever seen. A real cuckoo-maria. In fact, that’s its name now – Cucumaria frondosa is the scientific name, and … Read the rest “Science Art: Holothuria Pentactes, Lin. – die Rippenblasse, from from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom).”
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SOURCE: Based on Science News, 4 Feb 2021, “A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile”, as used in the post “Just… Read the rest “SONG: Small”
Science News shows off a critter from Madagascar that is very small, yet enormously cute. You have to see this. Click the link to meet Brookesia nana, a newly discovered chameleon that might… Read the rest “Just discovered: world’s tiniest reptile.”
Sci-News.com wants all of us to know that kangaroos, despite never having been domesticated, still want to let us know what they’re thinking:
… Read the rest “Kangaroos intentionally communicate with humans.”…[S]aid lead author Dr. Alan
Scientific American looks at a new round of tests that ravens as young as 4 months old have passed with flying colors, outwitting adult great apes (almost) in math, following cues, and other… Read the rest “Young ravens equal grown-up chimps on IQ tests.”
Science explains the odd irony behind the fact that the cutest birds – the ones gazing out at you with those big eyes – are also the ones in the most imminent danger from chopping… Read the rest “Birdies with the big, cute eyes are in the most danger from deforestation.”
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