Catalogue of Organisms

Indian star tortoise Geochelone elegans , copyright P. G. Palmer . As a whole group, the 'true' tortoises of the family Testudini...

Oblique-banded sweetlips Plectorhinchus lineatus , copyright Richard Ling . In an earlier post on this site, I referred to a fish of the...

The Waitomo harvestman Forsteropsalis photophaga , from Taylor & Probert (2014). A little less than a year ago, I was contacted by a ...

Velutinid, probably Lamellaria . Copyright Bill Rudman . In previous posts on this site, I have introduced you to some of the incredibl...

Cranidium and part of thorax of Onchonotellus sp., from Bao & Jago (2000). While most fossil invertebrates manage to completely fly ...

Female Psenulus pallipes carrying an aphid back to her nest. Copyright Jeremy Early . Because I am an obsessive-compulsive weirdo, I spe...

Scolopendra morsitans , copyright Jiri Lochman/Lochman Transparencies . It was a dark night, but not stormy (nights tend to be dark, as a...