As its Smithsonian Museum page explains, this painting is from a book that hoped to prove a slightly odd hypothesis: that even brightly colored animals would blend into… Read the rest “Science Art: Roseate Spoonbill, study for Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, by Abbot Handerson Thayer”
A lizard party, by Ernst Haeckel. Not jellyfish or diatoms or Lovecraftian marine creatures. Just lizards. Lots and lots of cold-blooded lizards.
A plate from Kunstformen… Read the rest “Science Art: Lizard (Lacertilia), by Ernst Haeckel.”
A quizzical and curious sea bird, from Birds of America, presented by The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Science News has something (perhaps small, perhaps strange) to be optimistic about. The endangered river mussels of America’s eastern mountains might go back to cleaning their… Read the rest “We’re going to save the mussels of Appalachia. Yes, we are.”
Scientific American has some suggestions for your self-isolation. There are a few ways you can help researchers out without ever leaving home:
… Read the rest “Bored with hanging out at home? Count some penguins (or spot some galaxies) for science.”“I think where we can tap into people’s enthusiasm
Or something like that. Scientific American looks at how Shi Zhengli’s kind of obscure area zoological research – looking at how bats contract viral diseases – suddenly… Read the rest “China’s “Bat Woman” is a virus-hunting hero.”
Scientific American checks out how fire-prevention efforts are actually apparently hurting bat populations:
… Read the rest “Forest fires boost bats.”In California’s Sierra Nevada ecosystem, bats have adapted to occasional
A lilac kingfisher, as pictured in the 1800s in A Monograph of the Alcedinidae, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
It’s a bird from Sulawesi, … Read the rest “Science Art: Pl. 119 Cittura cyanotis, from A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers by Richard Bowdler Sharpe.”
Real Clear Science has a strange Japanese experiment (published in PloS ONE) in which researchers stole an insect-repelling trick from zebras and gave black cattle white stripes –… Read the rest “Paint cows like zebras and they’ll be better off, initial study indicates.”
National Geographic reports on a study that has found nicotine-based insecticides – the world’s most widely used pesticides – act like appetite suppressants for … Read the rest “Common insectides have lowered songbird populations – they eat a couple seeds and lose weight.”
Popular Science thinks they know – and the answer is literally cool:
… Read the rest “How the zebra got its stripes. (An 85-year-old researcher’s first published study!)”Now the 85-year-old amateur scientist [Allison Cobb] has published her first scientific study [in the Journal
Ars Technica tries to discover what it is about bats that could help us humans live longer, healthier lives:
… Read the rest “Why do bats live so long? And how can we live longer too?”For the most part, as the size of the mammal goes up, its metabolism slows down and
A bird in its home (grown on a vine, fashioned by humans).
Cute little guy, too.
I found this on the Scientific Illustration tumblr, which got it from the Cincinnati Public… Read the rest “Science Art: Progne purpurea. Purple martin, by Howard Jones, 1886”
Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a snipe. Lots of kinds of snipe, in fact.
And snipe hunting was a real thing, too.
This illustration is of a Wilson’s snipe, and it comes from A history… Read the rest “Science Art: Wilson’s Snipe, by W.I. Beecroft, 1912”
Not just a kangaroo, and not just a nail-tailed kangaroo. A lunated nail-tailed kangaroo. And a cute one, too. From John Gould’s The Mammals of Australia, 1863. … Read the rest “Science Art: Lunated Nail-Tailed Kangaroo, 1863”
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