Catalogue of Organisms

The common perception of monkeys tends to be dominated by a relatively small number of species, generally those most commonly seen in zoos, ...

Ferns are one of those groups of organisms, like sharks and cockroaches, that are not really as ancient as most people imagine. For all that...

Radiolarians are one of the primary groups of micro-organisms to be found among the marine plankton. These unicellular greeblies are justly ...

The photo above (copyright Dave ), may or may not show Dalmanella , a brachiopod originally described from the later Ordovician of Sweden. ...

During my early years in rural New Zealand, I would often take note of the variety of insect life that could be seen coming to the screen do...

A couple of years ago , I presented a post about the Lepismatidae, the family including the familiar household silverfishes. In that post, I...

Face of Miscophus littoreus , from Andrade (1960). For this post's semi-random subject, I drew the crabronid wasp species Miscophus l...