Catalogue of Organisms

In previous posts , I've referred to the great significance of the minute crustaceans known as copepods to aquatic ecosystems. At the ti...

As I've commented before, the world is home to an overwhelming diversity of small brown beetles, most of them (for me, at least) inordin...

Various views of Camisia biverrucata , copyright Pierre Bornand . The animal in the above pictures is a typical representative of the Cam...

In a 1950 discussion of the origins of the fauna of South America, the great American palaeontologist G. G. Simpson dismissed the enormous r...

So there weren't too many people speculating about the identity of that mysterious figure (hi, Adam!) As it happens, there was a reason...

It's been a very long time since I last did one of these, and I'm not sure if I still have the readership for it, but I'm genuin...

Boletes are a distinctive group of mushrooms in which the underside of the fruiting body is covered by tubular pores instead of gills. Thoug...