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"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association
How the Badger Became (Taxon of the Week: Meles thorali)
More Really Ugly Fish
Most Unbelievable Organisms Evah!
My Genitals Just Grew Eyes and Swam Away: The Life of a Syllid Worm
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Some Thoughts on How to Make Electronic Publication Work
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10,000 Birds

Guide to the Birds of Cocos Island: Three Feathery Gold Pieces - “Guide to the Birds of Cocos Island” by Arias & Montoya may technically be a book, but in reality, it is a treasure island map leading you to a certain spo...
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

A PDF of Kingham (1962) on Astrodon - In 1962, Richard Frank Kingham — a student at Woodward School Washington, D.C. — wrote a four-page paper, with three further pages of line drawings, about ...
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

How to revive your landraces - How can we help get humble heirloom varieties of the humble potato back into cultivation? Well, fortunately, Potato News Daily has a handy guide, which I r...
Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)

Hitchhiker - Now, at the end of the summer, spiders are starting to show up. They're still mostly small; it hasn't been a good year for small beasties, from bees to ...
Wooster Geologists

Late summer field work in West Virginia (2024 and 2025) - Coring a lake usually involves… a lake. In this case, Dr. Eva Lyon and colleagues from Ohio University are studying Paleolake Buckeye, which probably last ...
Synapsida

Delphinids: Right Whale Dolphins - Northern right whale dolphinDolphins are familiar animals. We see them at aquaria and boat trips to see them in the wild are relatively common. In recent...
Anole Annals

New Orleans’ Brown Anoles Can Tolerate Extraordinary Amounts of Lead in Their Blood - Tulane University reports: Lead-resistant lizards in New Orleans could hold clues to combating lead poisoning August 20, 2025 9:00 AM Stacey Plaisance spla...
In the Company of Plants and Rocks

The Monthly Fern??—Prairie Spikemoss - *Selaginella densa*—moss, fern, fern ally, or none of the above? Coin is 19 mm across.This month the South Dakota fern series features another oddity—a s...
Te Papa's Blog

Uncovering taonga stories – using science to reconnect taonga with their histories - Museums hold thousands of ‘things’ from all around the world. In larger institutions like Te Papa, the histories of these ‘things’, be they objects, specim...
Equatorial Minnesota

Minnesota Spring Inventory - While working on something else recently, I stumbled on the Minnesota Spring Inventory. More importantly, especially in terms of time consumption, the in...
Bug Eric

Bugwatching Book Launch - My new book, Bugwatching: The Art, Joy, and Importance of Observing Insects, had its first event last Saturday at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Mi...
Parasite of the Day

Myxobolus medusae - Myxozoans are a group of single-celled parasites which had evolved from jellyfish-like ancestors, thus making them a type of single-celled animal. There ar...
Beetles In The Bush

1986 Florida Field Trip Report - Ted C. MacRae & Rev. James M. Sullivan1 In Spring 1986, the Rev. James Sullivan (Fr. Sullivan to those who knew him) and I made a two-week trip to Florida ...
iPhylo

Make Data Count Kaggle Competition - I’ve written several times here about the Make Data Count project and its major output to date, the Data Citation Corpus, currently at version 4 (see The ...
Arthropod Ecology

Spiderday (#27) - I know, I know… it’s been too long since the last SPIDERDAY post! The end of term proved busy, but I’m trying to get back on track. So: here are some of th...
The Bite Stuff

The Written Stone - The enigma of Longisquama insignis derives from its quixotic representation in the annals of paleontology. At first a strange lizard-like creature reminisc...
Reptilian Rants

A tribute to Gremlin - Tonight I find myself writing a eulogy for my recently deceased friend, Gremlin. I honestly never thought I would be writing this as I had always assumed t...
Studia Mirabilium

Getting to know your Hawaiian Lobeliads #45 Brighamia rockii - Brighamia rockii
Sandwalk

Endogenous retrovirus sequences can be transcriptionally active: the reality vs. the hype - A recent paper on characterizing endogenous retrovirus sequences has attracted some attention because of a press release from Kyoto University that focus...
Letters from Gondwana.

Shri rapax, a new velociraptorine dromaeosaurid from Mongolia - Dromaeosauridae is a clade of highly specialised small- to mid-sized theropod dinosaurs closely related to birds. Their fossils have been found in North Am...
Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings

The Jurassic Park Franchise is Repetitive, Boring and Repetitive - Jurassic World Rebirth is now out. I’ve not seen it yet, but all the indications are that it will be another summer blockbuster than will rake in a ton of ...
Evolving Thoughts

On grief - I have lived with death in my world since I was six, and my friend Judith suddenly disappeared from school. I was told later she died from leukaemia, as in...
The Smaller Majority by Piotr Naskrecki

Silently speaking - Crickets are some of the oldest and best studied singers of the animal world. Their ancestors were probably some of the first animals to break the silence ...
flyobsession

This fly is no joke! - The widespread distribution of Megaselia scalaris makes this paper by my friend, colleague, and firefly expert, Lynn Faust, of concern everywhere. In a har...
BunyipCo

Those Pesky Little Beetles - For the past couple of moths a small black beetle has been present in "plague" proportions. It is a Predaceous Ground Beetle, family Carabidae. Not want...
The Theropod Database Blog

No pygostyle for Baminornis - This week's big news was *Baminornis *(Chen et al., 2025), a bird with a supposed large pygostyle from a well dated Tithonian locality (Nanyuan Formation...
The Coastal Paleontologist down under

2024 in review: advances in marine mammal paleontology - This year has seen a somewhat lower number of papers published on fossil marine mammals, myself included - though I'm quite pleased I finally got the pap...
strange behaviors

Christmas Laundry - Deck the Halls with Sheets and Folly By Richard Conniff One autumn, many years ago now, my family moved out of our beloved old house into a temporary renta...
The Inquisitive Anystid | Ponderings on Words and Biota

A rarely illustrated skin mite - Hannah Stormer, my previous M.Sc. student and now lab tech, has been mounting mites and lice from Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Among hundreds of...
What's In John's Freezer?

Recent Papers. - Stomach-Churning Rating: 1/10 unless I change my mind and add some unsavoury images (which I did not). A most un-creative title for a most un-creative post...
Deep Sea News

How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure - Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a… ...
What's That Bug?

Cabbage Tree Emperor Moth: Quick Facts and Essential Info - The Cabbage Tree Emperor Moth is a fascinating insect worth exploring. As a member of the Saturniidae family, this moth stands out due to its distinct ap...
Small Things Considered

[da capo] Of Terms in Biology: Neuston - by Merry When I stumbled across the term bacterioneuston, I discovered a whole new world where the air meets the sea. I found that marine neuston had long ...
Biological Marginalia

WHERE YOU WANT YOUR BODY SENT???? - a-book-of-creatures: WHERE YOU WANT YOUR BODY SENT????
A DC Birding Blog

Loose Feathers #800 - *White-crowned Sparrow / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS* Birds and birding news - Tomorrow is NJ Audubon's World Series of Birding, a big day tournament ...
MYRMECOS

The 9th Annual Holiday Print Sale - I am excited to announce the return of the Holiday Insect Print Sale, now in its 9th year! I have selected 35-ish photographs that will be available at 70%...
The Artful Amoeba

Farewell, Amoeba Fans - This blog, though not its author, reaches the end of the line -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Waxing Paleontological

Marine Snouters of the Triassic II: Gunakadeit Rising - Alaska's own *Gunakadeit joseeae* by the amazing Gabriel Ugueto, or @SerpenIllus on the Twitters. A very long time ago, I posted an essay about one of my...
March of the Fossil Penguins

Penguin Genomes Unveiled - Today, the Penguin Genome Consortium announced that they have completed genomes of all living penguin species. This international team includes research fo...
Chinleana

Histological Evidence of Trauma in Dicynodont Tusks - *Whitney, M. R., Ting Tse, Y., and C. A. Sidor. 2019. Histological evidence of trauma in tusks of southern African dicynodonts. Palaeontologia Africana 5...
FromShanklin | "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." Thomas Henry Huxley

T. rex: Generations - Dinosaurs. Love them or hate them, they are a part of our culture. Ever since the first scientific discovery of giant reptilian bones by Gideon Mantell in...
dinosaurpalaeo

Photogrammetry tutorial 12: my workflow for Agisoft Metashape as a diagram - EDIT 06/2022: added chart for using depth map based mesh generation. Updated other charts to new program name. The last tutorial on how to handle a project...
Pondering Pikaia

Rainforest animals - What animals live in the rainforest? The tropical forests have an enormous biodiversity. It is estimated that up to half of the species that inhabit the pla...
Brian Switek

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Rock Paper Lizard

Lulu Island Bog Fire, Richmond BC, July 2018 - Picture from CTV helicopter, facing north. The north-south road is Shell Road. The forest to the right of Shell Road is the Richmond Nature Park. Lulu...
A Snail's Eye View

Sparring pademelons - Red-legged pademelons (*Thylogale stigmatica*) are not sociable animals, but they put up with each other. But every now and then, especially towards the en...
Life, et al.

Antiplacentas and Incestuous Teratomata: Reproductive Weirdness among the Coccoids - [image: Picture of a virtual bilateral gynandromorph of the eastern tiger swallowtail Papilio glaucus] Gynandromorph of *Papilio glaucus *(M=L/F=R), photogr...
The Echinoblog

The "starfish walking back to the sea" FAQ & why it is sad - So, apparently back in 2012, the original producer of this video shot this lone sea star out on a South Carolina beach as it was struggling to get back t...
Life is short, but snakes are long

Basics of snake skulls - This article will soon be available in Spanish! Snakes have a lot more bones than we do, but they have a lot fewer types of bones. Aside from a few boas, ...
EDGE Blog

Kakapo on the EDGE: the fight to save the world’s weirdest parrot - Before human settlement, the forests of New Zealand were full of Kakapos, meaning ‘night parrot’ in the Maori language. These bizarre birds are unlike......
Bushranger

A photo that saved a river - I went to Canberra just to see an exhibition at the National Library of Australia. The library holds about 3000 colour transparencies made by Peter Dombrov...
The Science Web | Putting the "omic" into comical….

That big expensive project was definitely not a complete failure - The World. That massive science project, the one that cost millions of dollars, employed hundreds of people and achieved almost nothing of any worth, was ...
Pharyngula

Friday Cephalopod: I succumb to peer pressure and will mention Octopolis - Friday Cephalopod: I succumb to peer pressure and will mention Octopolis Wow. Every person on the planet saw one version or another of this "Octopolis" st...
Zoo Volunteer

Dragonflies 2: Common Darter - Territorial male Common Darter One of the commonest dragonflies in the UK, especially in the south, is the Common Darter *Sympetrum striolatum*. One of at...
A Natural Fascination

Lanxes: Oddballs of the Lymnaeidae - This is the post excerpt.
Dragonfly Woman's Blog

Swarm Report: 1/1/2017 – 5/19/17 - I am so very behind on getting data from the Dragonfly Swarm Project shared here, but I wanted to get the data from this year so far up! Here’s what I’ve ...
Trichopterology

Using Inkscape for Biological Illustration - Years ago, I posted a short guide to illustrating insect genitalia in Inkscape. Now in the shadow of my dissertation writing, I've managed somehow to write...
Prerogative of Harlots

Who We Are and What We Want to Be - Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the future. It’s partly that the Peabody is engaged in a large-scale planning exercise that, when implemented, will c...
vaviblog

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SciLogs.com Feed Posts

Six Years a Sunfish - Very little is known about the lifespan and reproductive biology of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, after which this blog is named. They can live to be at le...
Biodiversity in Focus Blog

ZooBank Robbery - Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been tracking the newly described animal species that have made the news with their introduction to science, with the...
Ancient Anglers

Were going to need a bigger boat…..and more time. - Greetings to you all So you may be thinking that myself and Chris have died or forgotten about this little spot in the giant ocean that is the internet. We...
Macromite's Blog

Mite Harvestman: Austropurcellia inter alia - I should probably entitle this post as an homage to Robert Burns’ poem ‘To a Mouse’, because this ‘best-laid schemes o’ mites an’ men, Gang aft agley’ (tac...
Myrmecoid - タロウ昆虫記

Habrocerus waggles its tail - Habrocerus capillaricornis for some reason waggles it’s abdomen up and down quite frequently. I have absolutely no idea why, but they do and it’s absolutel...
Phylogenetics...

Ctenophora is not a sister group to other animals after all - Since 2008 there have been a debate whether the phylum Ctenophora is a phylogenetic sister group to other animals or not (Dunn et al. 2008; Philippe et al...
Beautiful Nightmares

Arthropods vs. Cane Toads - Cane toads are toxic because their bodies are loaded with cardiac glycosides, deadly toxins that can stop a predator’s heart. Because the toads are non-nat...
The Home Bug Garden

The Marsh Mallow Rose of China - *Hibiscus rosa-sinensis* 'Boreas Yellow' in a bed of basil.Summer is rapidly approaching in the Austral Home Bug Garden and I've been distracted by all of...
The New Species Challenge

Termite House-Guests - Last week I wrote about mites that live alongside honey bees, eating and reproducing within their hives. There are many tiny animals that associate with so...
The annotated budak

A beastiary of clams - Giant clams typically present viewers with a prominent gape, which is enhanced in living animals by a colourful and fleshy mantle filled with photosyntheti...
The Lord Geekington

Doubting Meganthropus - Little has changed since I last touched upon ‘Meganthropus’ in 2007. Google results are still dominated by Internet-kitsch connecting the name to fallen an...
Skeptic Wonder

Update: Tree of Eukaryotes (parasitology edition) - There arose a need for a new tree for a parasitology meeting, so after almost five years, I finally updated the tree of eukaryotes. There are still things ...
Normal Biology

Collecting Millipedes - I put out a call on Twitter for volunteers to go out looking for winter millipedes for me, and people responded! Totally cool! So this post will serve as a...
Of Omomys and Men

Ekgmowechashalines: The last North American primates (for a while) - Primates and their plesiadapiform relatives, which had been numerically abundant members of mammalian faunas in North America for much of the preceding Pal...
Seeds Aside

It’s plosing first… - Okay, everybody knows how plants can cope with adverse conditions, especially when it comes to dormant organs just waiting to resprout when spring or whate...
The Ocelloid

Extinction (or lateral transfer?) - This has been coming for a while, but I needed a push to make it official. I’m not much of a blogger anymore (four posts a year doesn’t quite cut it), so i...
Superoceras

InGen Currently Recruiting for Genetic Biologist Interns - You can apply at the "Careers" section of the Masrani website, but I suggest you take a look around while you're there, too. I just got accepted! Hold on...
Denim and Tweed

Moving day! - As of right about today, I'm moving both Denim and Tweed and my professional site to a new domain: jbyoder.org. I've imported the complete D&T archive to i...
A Three-Pound Monkey Brain

The Evolution of Cranial Capacity in Humans and Stem-Humans - *(Hey, I'm actually writing on the blog's title subject today!)* Here's a chart I've been working on for a while: This shows *all known human and stem-hum...
The Flying Trilobite

I've moved! Announcing my new site! - After over 7 years here on the excellent Blogger platform, The Flying Trilobite has moved! Come visit me at the new glendonmellow.com! If that link ha...
Pterosaur.net Blog

A bit more about the AMNH Exhibit - Many thanks to Dave Hone for posting the great photos from Steve Cohen of the new AMNH Exhibit. I have been meaning to post about the exhibit over a month ...
Raffles Museum News

Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research is no more - No, not an April Fool’s joke. From today, the Raffles Museum officially becomes Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum. Since our public gallery closed a ye...
A fragment of Gondwana

Why weren't there any suspension-feeding marine reptiles in the Mesozoic? - The Mesozoic (the so-called 'age of dinosaurs') is not only famous for the terrestrial dinosaurs but a host of large to gigantic reptiles living full time ...
The Atavism

A Very Special edition of Sunday Spinelessness - Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote something here. Let's see if I can remember how this goes: I find a weird-looking bug and take some photos. Then...
Biological Marginalia

That didn’t work out so well… - The name of this blog will live on as a tumblr consisting of all sorts of odds and ends and kinda-copyrighted things (hooray for havens), but it is time to...
Lord Geekington

Yet another move - I am now writing at The Lord Geekington (WordPress) and Biological Marginalia (tumblr). I really need to stop doing this.
The Lord Geekington

Yet Another Move - I don't know if anybody out there is still following, but I am now writing at The Lord Geekington (WordPress) and Biological Marginalia (tumblr). Some of t...
Hairy Museum of Natural History

A Fleshy Crest for Edmontosaurus - Bell et al. report on a new Edmontosaurus fossil with soft-tissue impressions around the skull and neck, including a structure they interpret as a cockscom...
microecos

At the margins of durophagy - I would tell you more about this specimen but Animal Collective thinks it might be grammy material so I have to exercise discretion.
Arthropoda

Man is but a worm - I’ve had a lot of life changes since my last activity her. I’ve gotten married, defended my PhD, and moved to Lund, Sweden to do my postdoctoral research w...
Bug Girl's Blog

Mad Hatterpillar: The Sequel! - Hatters gonna hat
SNAIL'S TALES

Bootleg transactions of the 15th MAM meeting - The 15th meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists took place yesterday at the Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) in Wilmington, Delaware. I counted...
Gallicissa

Endmics Clean-up with Ben and Ron under Five Days - In August, 2012 I guided a five-day abridged version of my Absolute Birding tour. It was with Ron and Ben Barkley, a farther son duo from the U.S.A. Ben is...
The Open Source Paleontologist

Running Bundler on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit - This post is mostly a note to myself so that I remember how to do this next time I upgrade or reinstall my system. But, perhaps it will be of use to others...
Dinochick Blogs

The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum project has gone global! - Dusting off the old blog to help out a good cause. Below is a message from the good folks at Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative (PCDI). They have started ...
Systematics and Biogeography

Squirrels, Eels, Algae and Ardi: A Clarification - The "First human ancestor", which the ABC reports looked "like a squirrel" is of course not to be mixed up with the "Human Family's Earliest ancestor", nam...
Computer cladistics / ¡Cladística a la lata!

Hennig XXXI (23-27 Jun 2012) Riverside, California, USA - This year, the *Hennig meeting* was held at *Riverside*, California, and I'm fortunate enough to be able to be there (in great part thanks to the *Kurt Pic...
When Pigs Fly Returns

Still Alive! I Promise! - So I'm still not dead. But I am posting far less often, as you can probably notice. The good news first, though: I am "stable" in terms of health. I'm stil...
Community Blog

MarineBio.org’s Take on Sustainable Aquarium Keeping - Tropical fish keeping as a hobby can be a wonderful way to appreciate the fascinating creatures that live beneath the waves. But we want to see hobbyists...
Ediacaran

Seeing the Forest for the Trees - Reconstruction of Permian Forest from Inner Mongolia (Jun Wang *et al*. 2012) OK I'm back after a long hiatus due to extensive travel (yay) and work (boo)...
Pick & Scalpel

2011: Archaeopteryx Sesquicentennial Year in Review - What a remarkable 150th birthday year it’s been for Archaeopteryx! Sesquicentennial celebrations, commemorative coins and stamps, historical articles, and ...
Tetrapod Zoology

Tetrapod Zoology has moved - Tetrapod Zoology has moved [image: i-123d9fb0d5588d4fef6a86f590077043-Tet-Zoo-ver-3-banner-200-px-135-px-Oct-2011.jpg] You are currently at the old, defu...
Lab Rat

Lab Rat Moving House - Trying to keep both this and my new sciam blog going has been a bit of a strain. I've decided therefore that from now on all my science writing will be hos...
Cephalove

Hiatus - After a few weeks of denial, I’ve decided that I need to announce a blog vacation. I’ve just started graduate school and need a bit of time to get settled ...
Gossamer Tapestry

Diamond Desert - I stayed late after the IBCM conference to go out and see springtime in the desert. I got to spend a delightful day hiking and insect watching out by Dese...
Dracovenator

Antetonitrus and the chamber of pneumaticity - What a month for publications it has been, it seems that all the fruits of my major paper-writing push last year, which incidentally explains the quiescenc...
Watching the World Wake Up

Fault-Blocking, Stories and the Meaning of Life - My first day of “retirement”, I took the Trifecta to school, ran some errands and then wanted to get out. It was a cold, windy day, with intermittent sno...
Biological Ramblings

Gulls, Part 1 - The word “gull” probably has the ability to elicit the widest range of emotion among birders and non-birders alike of any bird name. To some birders, “gull...
Arthropoda

Mr. T pities the fools who haven’t updated their RSS feeds! - There are still quite a few people who have not updated their RSS feeds for Arthropoda’s new RSS address. Get with the program, slackers!
Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets

Resistance Is Futile: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Network Effect - There’s no getting around it, science is a social enterprise. Go ahead, try and do some by your lonesome. Oh, you may putter and dial-twirl and churn out s...
Cephalove

The Big Move - This week, I was graciously invited to join the Southern Fried Science blog network. I accepted, and so will be relocating to www.cephalove.southernfrieds...
Myrmecos Blog

This blog has moved. - Please update your bookmarks and feeds. This blog has moved to http://myrmecos.net/ . The new RSS feed is: http://myrmecos.net/feed/ If that URL looks fami...
Ecographica

Tsunamis Hit Florida - Not! - I’ve been told that there is a rumor going around about methane gas bubbles causing a tsunami... *From Florida Department of Environmental Protection:* “...
ptygmatics

Beetle rearing - Tour de France time! Amazed it has come around again already… doesn’t seem like a year since all those late nights watching the cycling on SBS. Anyway, ins...
The Other 95%

What in the larval world is this? - No one at Duke seems to know what this is. Southern Fried Scientist has allowed me to copy verbatim his post in the hopes that maybe someone out there in T...
Bryophytes of Central and Northern Europe

This blog... - ...is not meant to be a blog, but a gallery of mosses and liverworts. The pictures are meant to be helpful for species identification both in the field and...
from Archaea to Zeaxanthol

He takes after his Dad - Just like his bonnie sister, me boy be a salty chip of the ol' block:
Ask Doctor Vector

Oklahoma tetrapods - This one's for Darren. The poor guy is working on at least two books, several technical papers, and keeping up two blogs, not to mention being a husband an...
Amphidrome

A Shark from the Detroit River - Yes, that’s a bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo) … and yes, that’s the Detroit River. The photo was taken on July 21, 2006, by area resident Richard Kik IV ...
Hyphoid Logic

Cthulhu's Bar and Grill for the Holidays - Just in time for the holidays, I'm happy to announce the grand opening of Cthulhu's Bar & Grill! It's a one-stop shop for vaguely Cthulhu-related t-shirts a...
Nimravid's Weblog

The Evolution of Feliform Saber-Tooth Skull Shape - Finally back for some discussion of saber-tooth cats, nimravids, and barbourofelids. There are two complementary articles that appeared almost simultaneous...
Scorpion Evolution (by Bob Crean)

METASOMAL EVOLUTION - *TAIL* When discussing the macroevolution of scorpions, little of interest can be discussed about the tail! However, in lower level classification, keels...
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