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Sunday, 30 December 2012
Friday, 28 December 2012
Is Faeces Brain Food?
He stood before the crowd with all the casual self-assurance and authority of a good-natured boss sharing a drink with his subordinates. In his hand was a small, brown ball.
"This is poo" he said as he playfully threw the brown ball into the air and caught it, a smile playing on his lips as the crowd chuckled in just the way he knew they would.
Holding the small, brown ball in his thumb and finger for all to see, he went on "and what I want to do today is share my passion for poo with you."
But for one member of the audience, it would never matter how interesting or amusing his talk would be...
"Passion?" said the Dung Beetle. "You call that passion?"
"This is poo" he said as he playfully threw the brown ball into the air and caught it, a smile playing on his lips as the crowd chuckled in just the way he knew they would.
Holding the small, brown ball in his thumb and finger for all to see, he went on "and what I want to do today is share my passion for poo with you."
But for one member of the audience, it would never matter how interesting or amusing his talk would be...
"Passion?" said the Dung Beetle. "You call that passion?"
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Sunday, 23 December 2012
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you have a wonderful day and Santa fills your stocking with so much cool stuff that you would feel guilty were you not having so much FUN!
Santa is looking particularly trim this year, don't you think?
Image: modified from PacificKlaus via Flickr |
Friday, 21 December 2012
Christmas Cactus?
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Joubin's Squid
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Ostracod
Image: Daniel Stoupin |
Friday, 14 December 2012
Hydnora africana
It's Hydnora africana! A kind of "living dead" plant. Because sometimes you just don't know what's under the earth until it breaks out and stinks the place up.
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Diplura
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Remora
Image: mentalblock_DMD via Flickr Remora remora |
Well have no fear! The Remora is here to show you the opportunities granted to you by your horrific, cranial abnormality! Turn the cruelty of nature to your advantage!
Friday, 7 December 2012
Alien Brain Starfish?
Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Galapagos Rift Expedition 2011 |
It's clearly a brain. A brain unleashed from the dark tedium of a cranium and enjoying its time in the slightly less dark and tedious deep sea. Can't you see it throbbing and pulsating in delight of all the new sensations? It's like a dog with its head out the car window. Especially the tongue. It looks a lot like the dog's tongue.
I wonder what it'll do with all those spinal columns?
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Jumping Jesus! It's the Pygmy Mole Cricket!
Image: Malcolm Burrows Pygmy Mole Cricket Actually a grasshopper. |
So what's a Pygmy Mole Cricket to do? They can't walk on water. They can't swim through water. They can jump really well on land, but what about on water? They can't do that, can they?
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Darwin's Frog
Image: Wikipedia Rhinoderma darwinii |