Catalogue of Organisms

Recent decades have seen a great deal of shifting around in the classification of mosses. As molecular data have become de rigeur in phylog...

...though to the best of my knowledge, none of them have fricking lasers on their heads. Painted comber Serranus scriba , copyright Rober...

The original illustration of Stygophalangium karamani , from Oudemans (1933). In 1933, the Dutch zoologist Anthonie Oudemans described wh...

I think it may be time to rock out something that hasn't been seen on this site for a while. Horns at the ready... (Credit, again, t...

A couple of years ago , I presented a bit of an abortive post on wasps of the family Pompilidae, the spider-hawks. Despite their striking ap...

Reconstruction of Hadromeros subulatus , from Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (1991). Trilobites of the genus Hadromeros were widespread in th...

Reconstruction of Dicranophyllum hallei , from here . Popular works on the fossil record tend to give us a very uniform picture of the Ca...