Catalogue of Organisms

Humans have a tendency to think of 'nature' and the 'environment' as something distinct from our own society. Environments u...

With arthropods being such a massively diverse sector of the global biota (and even that feels like an understatement; describing arthropods...

The acanthomorph fishes (a major clade of fishes mostly characterised by the presence of spines at the front of the dorsal fin) have long be...

In an earlier post , I described the South American flowering herbs known as the Coutoubeinae. In this post, I'm going to take a step ba...

Diatoms are one of the most prominent groups of micro-algae in aquatic environments, perhaps more abundant than any other major group of aqu...

Ammonites are among the iconic fossils of the Mesozoic. These shelled cephalopods dominated the oceans during their heyday and diversified i...

The chalcidoid wasps are truly a remarkable array: tiny wonders coming in a bewildering variety of forms. For this post, I'm looking at ...