Category Archives: Animals
Those Great Tits Want Your Braaaains, Pipistrelle Bats.
As delicately pretty as it might look, the great tit (Parus major) has been gaining quite the reputation for being involved in some seriously gruesome behaviour. Driven by hunger when their normal diet of insects has grown scarce, the great … Continue reading
A Plague’s A Crowd, Bosavi Woolly Rat.
A three-week expedition into the heart of an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea has produced some truly remarkable results, with the discovery of a significant number of previously unknown species of frog, insects, fish, birds, and mammals. A team … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, Insects, New Species!, Science, Sea Creatures
Welcome Back, Tasman Booby!
Thought to have been extinct since the late 18th century, when the hunting of Norfolk Island’s Polynesian settlers and European sailers eradicated its numbers to unprecedented lows, the Tasman booby, a long-winged sea bird formerly native to the small islands … Continue reading
Chill the Fuck Out, Swima Worms & Spanish Ribbed Newt…
As early as 1879, biologists have known about the Spanish ribbed newt’s tendency to use its rib bones as weapons, but only recently has x-ray imaging been used to observe how they do it. When the newt is agitated or … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, New Species!, 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
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
