Catalogue of Organisms

For the subject of today's post, I drew the Sarcopterygii, the 'lobe-finned fishes'. Though something of a poor relation to thei...

Exfoliated specimen of Lamellorthoceras gracile , from Sweet (1964). The outer shell has been lost. The title of today's post, offhan...

Sphaerexochus brittanicus , from Museum Victoria . The fossil in the image above belongs to a genus of trilobites that lived from the Mid...

The wasp in the photo above (taken by Henrik Gyurkovics ) is Telostegus inermis , a member of the family Pompilidae. I've always known ...

Female Zelotes longipes , photographed by Jørgen Lissner . The spider in the photo above is a fairly typical representative of the genus ...

And here's some of that smut, right in your face: Specimens of the grass Briza minor infected with the smut Jamesdicksonia brizae , ...

Just a brief one today. The above picture, from Assam Plants.com , shows leaves of the dighloti, Litsea salicifolia , a tree of the laurel ...