Boosting signal on this, because it’s potentially very urgent and the person at risk could be anywhere in the world at this point. A week ago, on April 30, a visitor to the Kelso Depot in the Mojave National Preserve had a bat land on his neck. The bat — a Myotis lucifugus a.k.a. little …
Category Archive: Organisms
May 06 2013
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: More charismatic megafauna?
Oh, no. The metazoan curator sent me this photo for this time around, and I groaned a bit: more big furries. I told her, “Where are the tubeworms, the crustaceans, the zooplankton? Why no jellyfish or echinoderms?” And she said, “But they’re so cute!” and gave me that look. That look that means I have …
May 03 2013
Friday Cephalopod: Free fallin’
From a lovely article in the New York Review of Books about octopods:
Apr 27 2013
Musings from the mind of a mouse
Casey Luskin is such a great gift to the scientific community. The public spokesman for the Discovery Institute has a law degree and a Masters degree (in Science! Earth Science, that is) and thinks he is qualified to analyze papers in genetics and molecular biology, fields in which he hasn’t the slightest smattering of background, …
Apr 22 2013
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Is she trying to tell me something?
My wife tells me I ought to feature a fish that’s actually called the Sarcastic Fringehead on the blog — it’s a natural. I wonder if she was being sarcastic, but she looked so innocent when she told me.
Apr 20 2013
Coelacanths are unexceptional products of evolution
The coelacanth genome has been sequenced, which is good news all around…except that I found a few of the comments in the article announcing it disconcerting. They keep calling it a “living fossil” — and you know what I think of that term — and they keep referring to it as evolving slowly The slowly …
Apr 19 2013
Also, I know I’ll probably get flamed for this…
But after this week I just don’t care. PZ can feed me to the squids if he wants to. I just don’t care.
Apr 19 2013
Friday Cephalopod: No, you’re not safe anywhere
It’s a big image, so it’s going below the fold.
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