Category Archives: Museum Stuff
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
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Umm Yale? Belemnotheutis Antiquus Called: He Wants His Sepia Back.
Recently, a team led by British Geological Survey palaeontologist, Dr Phil Wilby, uncovered a 155 million year old squid-like creature with a full and perfectly preserved ink sac. Found near the small village of Christian Malford, Wilshire, this slim-line cephalopod … Continue reading
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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
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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
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Well This is Embarrassing…
Last month, researchers from the El Instituto de Geología Económica in Madrid uncovered the remarkably complete fossils of numerous giant clustered trilobites in a rock quarry in northern Portugal. The largest trilobites found to date, one stretching to almost 90 … Continue reading
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Crab-Darwin is Not Impressed With Puijila darwini
A recent discovery which would blow this mental defective’s mind (if he had one): researchers from the Carleton University, Canada, have uncovered a transitional fossil which reveals the evolutionary trail from land to sea of the pinniped mammal suborder, which … Continue reading
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