Oh, yes we did. We’ve already used zeppelins to hunt for aliens (or at least meteorite strikes). And now, MSNBC tells us, we’ve got an odder airship for an odder task:
… Read the rest “We built a blimp to hunt Bigfoot….”Using a
National Geographic reveals the night monkeys and other bizarre creatures of the 70,000 acre jungle that explorers are calling “a heaven of biodiversity”:
… Read the rest “Eight new mammals discovered in Peru.”Rarely seen and
It’s an egg! A jacana laid it on some tropical riverbank or lake shore sometime in the 1800s, just so Alphonse Millot could come along and immortalize it in the pages of an encyclopedia.… Read the rest “Science Art: Oeufs 2b, 29, by Adolphe Millot, Nouveau Larousse Illustré [1897-1904]”
They look even more reptilian from the *inside*.
This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
A contented sloth peers out of the pages of St. George Mivart’s American Varieties of Animal Life. I have no idea who the artist is, or even why a book on American animals has aardvarks… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 68, The Two-Toed Sloth, American Types of Animal Life, 1893.”
This is what America meant for Claude Auge, who edited Le Larousse pour tous nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique in 1909.
Eskimos and tapirs.
You can browse through your… Read the rest “Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.”
This is a flatworm. A German flatworm. It may be a distant cousin of the planarians that hypnotized Dutch artist M.C. Escher with their two-dimensional lives and their bizarre ability to… Read the rest “Science Art:Dugesia Anatomy Schematic, by Andreas Neudecker”
This engraving shows a bunch of humans spearing a sea turtle. But wait! A manatee looks on in terror, clutching her child! And thinks back to all the different kinds of harpoons she has seen…… Read the rest “Science Art: Manière de pêcher la Tortüe; le Lamantin from Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers, Volume I (1744)”
National Geographic is watching South Florida with a growing sense of unease over the alien monsters eating any creature who wanders into the Everglades:
… Read the rest “Python problem grows in the Everglades”…[T]his is “the
Vienna’s University of Veterinary Medicine has been listening to the mice as the tiny Casanovas sing to impress the babes:
… Read the rest “A house mouse serenade.”It has been known for some time that house mice (Mus musculus
WaPo covers the war between a newly discovered frog and an itsy bitsy fish over which one is the smallest vertebrate:
… Read the rest “Fight to be tiniest.”An article Wednesday in the journal PLoS One named Paedophryne amauensis
Not a fever dream. Not a Discovery photoshop. No, it’s a newly discovered snake named Matilda:
… Read the rest “A yellow viper with horns over its eyes.”Matilda, technically known as Atheris matildae, was named after the daughter of Tim
The pink fairy armadillo wishes you a happy New Year.
So, I am sure, would R.P. Lesson.
From a series of zoological wall hangings (you remember these from classrooms, don’t you?) found on Scientific Illustrations.
Viennese teacher Dr. Paul Pfurtscheller… Read the rest “Science Art: Ophidia I. Tropidonotus natrix Tab 18, by Paul Pfurtscheller”
National Geographic reports that an entire genus of African antelopes – represented by the hirola, last species in genus Beatragus – is about to follow the dodo and the marsupial… Read the rest “Antelope genus about to disappear.”
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