Monthly Archives: October 2009
Way To Be A Vegetarian For All The Wrong Reasons, Bagheera Kiplingi
As published in the latest issue of Current Biology, researchers have identified the first-known mostly vegetarian spider out of the 40,000 discovered species in the world. The curious behaviour of this wide-eyed jumping spider, Bagheera kiplingi, discovered in the late … Continue reading
Hey Polychaetes, Let’s Play the Silence Game Till the Next Whale-Fall, Okay?
In her recently-published dissertation for the University of Gothenburg, Swedish doctoral researcher, Helena Wiklund, identifies nine new species from two families of polychaete worms (Ophryotrocha and Vigtorniella) found on whale remains in Scandinavian and Californian waters. Polychaetes, a common type … Continue reading
Filed under New Species!, Science, Sea Creatures
You Guys, You’re Going To Give Hydrolagus melanophasma A Complex!
So you’ve probably already heard about it a billion times over, but yes, a team of researchers from the Pacific Shark Research Center and the California Academy of Sciences have identified a new ghost shark, publishing their findings in the … Continue reading
Filed under Museum Stuff, New Species!, Sea Creatures
