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Have You Seen This Creature?

August 25, 2009

‘Cause scientists sure haven’t. And they really, really want to. The creature in question is Paleodictyon nodosum. And before you do anything else, go check out this article in the New York Times by William J. Broad and take a gander at it. If this is a blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on [...]

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The Creature(s) from the North Carolina Sewer

July 6, 2009

Every so often, an organism comes along that has even biologists fighting over what it “is”. Now you’d expect that after several thousand years of scientific inquiry, we’d have a pretty good handle on the terrestrial macrobiota of the world. You’d be wrong.
The background here is that a North Carolina construction company was hired by [...]

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What You See When You Drink Too Much in Thailand

May 20, 2009

Because nothing says, “Don’t Eat Me!” quite like a neon pink millipede (unless you’re two, in which case it says, “All You Can Eat Candy Buffet!”), I give you: The Pink Cyanide Millipede.
In addition to its easily pronounceable Thai (Mangkorn chomphoo) and Latin (Desmoxytes purpurosea) names, it features a pleasing almond aroma (courtesy of the [...]

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Unidentified feathery object (UFO)

May 10, 2009

Again via Deep Sea News, here’s a video of a “ninja seaweed” from the Red Sea. Prepare to be impressed:

This is what 600 million years of relentless predation will do for ya, folks.
Nothing to see here. These aren’t the . . . whatevers . . . we’re looking for. Move along.
Guesses on the identity of [...]

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Lesbian Necrophiliac Bdelloid Rotifers (and the Scientists who Love Them): Part 1

April 30, 2009

So you’ve been having a rough decade eking out a living as a bdelloid rotifer, living in the soil, some moss, or a small vernal pool. First, it stopped raining a few days after you hatched. Then you entered a period of dried-up stasis in which your cell membranes ruptured, metabolism ground to a halt, [...]

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The Fish with the Observation Deck

April 22, 2009

Back in March, I posted a link on Facebook to this blog, the aptly named, “Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why this Fish is So Freakin’ Crazy”, at the Deep Sea News.
The blog includes this clip:

If there was ever a fish that belonged on Futurama . . . this is it. The see-through head apparently [...]

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