You can play the “Where’s Waldo” game and browse an interactive album of animal mimics, too.
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Mimics!
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
You can play the “Where’s Waldo” game and browse an interactive album of animal mimics, too.
Carl Zimmer has some videos of explosive erections in ducks you might not want to miss. Or might want to miss, depending on your kinks. I may have nightmares tonight.
The lower Congo river is deep and complex, and there are a surprising number of hydrologic features that act as barriers separating populations of fish — this very nice video explains the diversity of species and the ongoing evolution of the fish in this environment.
They too briefly showed a blind depigmented cichlid that apparently lives in very deep troughs in the river — I wanted to see more about that. It’s probably out of the question to send divers down into that maelstrom, but cameras? Someday? Please?
This is very cool: it’s a series of scanning electron micrographs of spider book lungs. I’d like to hang a few of those on my wall.
By the way, this is from an interesting article about using an endangered species lottery to save rare Australian animals.
