Monthly Archives: July 2010

Finding Australia’s Best Science Blogger

In exciting news, Running Ponies is a finalist in a competition to find Australia’s best science blog as part of this year’s National Science Week. The finalists were determined by a panel of Australian science communicators and now it’s down … Continue reading

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That’s Just Gross, Leviathan melvillei.

The discovery of a giant sperm whale with 40 centimetre-long teeth has shed new light on the types of predators that once terrorised Miocene waters 12 million years ago. Named Leviathan melvillei, after Herman Melvill and his formidable white whale, … Continue reading

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Wandering Ponies #5

For this edition of WP, I’ll attempt to take you on a roller coaster of emotions, most of which will hopefully be pleasant, and one of which, hopefully not. Unless of course you, I don’t know, find birds scary, squids … Continue reading

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Filed under Animals, Archosaurs, Art, Potential Husbands, Science, Sea Creatures, Video