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    Botanical Wednesday: It’s almost like tentacles and a mouth…

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    Water lily

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    • 8 September 2010
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    Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Kinky skinky

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    Yellow-bellied three-toed skink

    She’s transitional! This is a live-bearing reptile carrying a load of eggs, and with a modified membrane to secrete calcium and other nutrients to the embryos.

    She’s also looking a bit pugilistic about it all, too.

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    • PZ Myers
    • 6 September 2010
    • Organisms

    Friday Cephalopod: Future Molluscan Overlord

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    Octopus chierchiae

    (via Daisy Hill Ceph Farm)

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    • PZ Myers
    • 3 September 2010
    • Cephalopods, Organisms

    Botanical Wednesday: Fungus that thinks it’s a flower

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    Aseroe rubra

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    • PZ Myers
    • 1 September 2010
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    Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Itty bitty little froggy

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    Microhyla nepenthicola

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    • PZ Myers
    • 30 August 2010
    • Organisms

    Friday Cephalopod: Tiny, but with a big pair

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    Macrotritopus

    (via the BBC)

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    • PZ Myers
    • 27 August 2010
    • Cephalopods, Organisms

    Male weedy seadragon seduces female with dazzling dance

    This fascinating clip featuring Sir David Attenborough captures an enchanting courtship between two incredibly graceful sea creatures.

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    • PZ Myers
    • 24 August 2010
    • Organisms

    Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Sexy beast

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    Limax maximus

    (Warning! Video below flaunts fantastic gymnastic hermaphrodite sex. You will be forever crippled with deep feelings of sexual inadequacy forever more after watching it.)

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    • PZ Myers
    • 23 August 2010
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    Friday Cephalopod: Goosed!

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    Sepia pharaonis

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    • PZ Myers
    • 20 August 2010
    • Cephalopods, Organisms

    Botanical Wednesday: It’s the season to wish death upon flies

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    Dionaea muscipula

    Watch it in action.

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    • PZ Myers
    • 18 August 2010
    • Organisms
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