Category Archives: New Species!
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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Tiny Gypsies: Beware The Bad-Luck Froglets
For those of us who have a problem with weeny thimble-gypsies trying to steal our shoelaces to put into their stews, West Australian herpetologists have just found the ultimate solution. Sure, you could just continue to throw regular-sized bad-luck frogs … 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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Feathers, Tianyulong? Really?
So the recent discovery published in Nature last week by researchers from the Institute of Geology in Beijing of an apparently bristly 130 million-year-old ornithischian fossil has had quite the rapturous reception by the international media. The palaeontologists, however, prefer … Continue reading
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Bulk Up, Tyrannosaurus Rex
It’s times like these when you’re fully within your right to be all, “What’s up, T-Rex? Why so lame?” because researchers at the Natural Museum of Oslo have discovered a new pliosaur that could eat a four wheel drive. At … Continue reading
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“Twilight” Conquers Earth, Invades Sea
So I know Twilight is all like super-important to the kids these days, and that it’s the most popular badly-written fiction in the history of the world or something, but I didn’t really think the whole “stoner (/emo) vampire” thing … Continue reading
Filed under Museum Stuff, New Species!, Random Rants, Sea Creatures
