Category Archives: Science
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
Filed under Animals, Fossils, Museum Stuff, New Species!, Science, Sea Creatures
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
Filed under Animals, Archosaurs, Art, Potential Husbands, Science, Sea Creatures, Video
Trust Me When I Say You’re Going to Need a Blow Torch and Some Rope, Amaurobius ferox Spiderlings.
In a discovery both sinister and intriguing, a biologist in South Korea has found that life as a juvenile Black-lace weaver spider (Amaurobius ferox) is far from easy. As part of a group known as subsocial spiders, an A. ferox … Continue reading
You Should Probably Just Move Oceans, Male Gulf Pipefish
It’s well-known that within seahorse circles, it’s the males who bear the responsibility of pregnancy, not the females. The same goes for their relatives, the pipefish, whose males are equipped with a specialised external brood pouch into which the females … Continue reading
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Assassin Bug, What Do You Mean You’ve Never Seen The Jackal?
A study from Sydney’s Macquarie University has examined the predatory behaviour of the assassin bug (Stenolemus bituberus), describing for the first time the two distinct attack methods used by this araneophagic (spider-eating) insect. Putting the bugs in contact with five … Continue reading
