The Barry White organ. It’s how koalas get low.
Nature gets the lowdown on the anatomical secret behind the koala’s deep, deep voice: Benjamin Charlton, a biologist at the University of Sussex in Brighton, […]
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Science Art: Topography of a Duck, by Maynard F. Reece.
From the book Waterfowl in Iowa, by Jack W. Musgrove and Mary R. Musgrove, published by the Iowa State Conservation Commission. I found this self-explanatory […]
Save the (10-foot-long, venomous) snakes!
BBC discusses the challenges faced by Rodrigo Souza, a man who’s dedicated himself to saving an endangered species – the lethal, heat-seeking venomous snake called […]
Komodo dragons’ lethal, bone-crushing jaws not all *that* dirty.
Discover Magazine tries to put the record straight, revealing that the supposedly septic-mouthed Komodo dragons have been getting a bad rap: But of all the […]
Science Art: Chick and Egg of Tinamou &c, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, February 13, 1868
Awww – is a teeny tiny tinamou! It’s from this 1868 issue of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London found in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
Science Art: Plate VI, from Monograph on the Aye-aye, by Richard Owen, 1863
In 1863, naturalist Richard Owen published 72 pages of joy. Is it related to the lemur? Aye. Does it climb through the jungle at night? […]
Australia faces their own house-eating snail invasion.
Smithsonian might terrify the Australian homeowner with their coverage of the
Science Art: Indian Gharial by Wilhelm Eigener, 1958
Click to embiggen A sub-continental crocodilian, found on that good ol’ Scientific Illustration tumblog. It was painted by Wilhelm Eigener, one of Germany’s most sought-after […]
Science Art: Plate IV: Chilabothrus Inornatus and Dactyloa Edwardsii, by M&N Hanhart,1851.
Click to embiggen. Originally published in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Gosse, who had awesome sideburns. And a relationship with M&N Hanhart, prolific […]
SONG: “In the Light”
SONG: “In the Light” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate”, New Scientist, 18 January […]
Solar powered animal.
New Scientist‘s Zoologger celebrates Ambystoma maculatum, the first known vertebrate to get energy directly from sunlight: Then in 2011 the story gained an additional twist. […]
Science Art: From Under den Griechen Berhuempesten Gschichtschreibers sechs Bücher, by Siculus Diodorus, 1554.
I can’t read the German here, but it sure looks like an illustration of a jackal and another illustration of snakes and scorpions. I’m guessing […]
Science Art: The Hairy Water Tortoise, Scientific American, December 21,1878
Click to embiggen I think I’m happier not knowing exactly what this is illustrating. I mean, I think I can guess, but that’s not nearly […]
Pollution-tracking by bird.
Nature reveals the outdoor version of canaries in a coalmine – how researchers use swallows and homing pigeons to track pollution: Nesting birds that feed […]
Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927
We’ve talked before about Alfred Brehm. These are his aardvarks. Earth-pigs. After “trek,” one of the best-known Afrikaans words to make it into English. Literally, […]