Catalogue of Organisms

Rocky Mountain locusts Melanoplus spretus , from the Minnesota Historical Society . The Cloud was hailing grasshoppers. The cloud was gra...

By recommendation of the Committee for Spermatophyta (Brummitt 2005), this is. Photograph by L.R. Inula verbascifolia is a herbaceous, c...

The organism in the above picture (from Garrity & Holt 2001) may not look particularly remarkable, but this is a very important microbe...

Much has been made of the "splendid isolation" of South America for a large part of the Cenozoic. Finding itself girt by sea, Sout...

Fossilised accumulation of Paracomatula helvetica , from here . Earlier posts on this site have discussed examples of the feather stars...

The fine-looking animal above (photographed by Roy Anderson ) is Hydrobia acuta neglecta , a member of the subfamily Hydrobiinae of the fam...

Copromyza stercoraria , photographed by Blaauw7 . The fly in the picture above is a typical member of the Sphaeroceridae, a family of ove...