Monthly Archives: July 2009
It’s Not All Mindless Sex With Beautiful Women, Placoderm
A team led by Australian palaeontologist, Dr John Long, have discovered one of the oldest reproductive organs to date, potentially shedding light on the sexual evolution of vertebrate organisms. Belonging to a 400 million-year-old Devonian armoured placoderm from the Gogo … Continue reading
Filed under Fossils, Museum Stuff, Science, Sea Creatures
You Can’t Hide Forever, Chevrotain
As recently reported by the BBC, Asian and African chevrotain species have been discovered to readily favour water as a method of escape when startled or threatened by predators. Also known as the mouse-deer, these nimble, cat-sized creatures have been … Continue reading
Thanks To Snowboarding…
I didn’t grow up as a Milo kid skiing or snowboarding every weekend, I don’t do back-to-back seasons and I’m not a particularly skilled or ‘stylish’ rider. However, none of this detracts from the fact that I am one hundred … Continue reading
Filed under Japan!, Random Rants
Time To Put That Thumb-Sized Body to Use, Aellen’s Long-Fingered Bats
A team headed by Manuel Ruedi, the curator at the Natural History Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, discovered just two weeks ago a new species of bat (in the throes of clumsy reproduction, no less), in a cave on a volcanic … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, Museum Stuff, New Species!, Science
