Picture Posts:
There's an island visible in the picture below. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify the island, it's location, it's relationship to science, and (for extra credit) its relationship to American pop culture. The answer...
Posted on March 20, 2008 2:05 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In Saturday's photo quiz, I posted a very cropped version of a picture, and asked people to identify the item that's in there. This was simultaneously one of the most and least successful photo quizzes I've posted so far....
Posted on March 18, 2008 11:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This photo quiz is a bit different from the others I've done so far. Instead of giving you a full picture, I'm going to put up a piece of the image and a hint. Your mission (should you choose...
Posted on March 15, 2008 1:45 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here's another picture quiz for you. The picture below was taken in February of 2005, just off the coast in Oahu. Can you identify the piece of equipment that the two people in the picture are using, and do...
Posted on March 4, 2008 9:17 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I took the picture below at Ka'ena Point, Oahu in January of 2006. In this picture, there are two Hawaiian Monk Seals. (They can be hard to spot, so I've marked the two animals in a second version of...
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Posted on February 29, 2008 9:57 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last week, I had a picture of a live spider for you to identify. Most of the guesses came quickly, and were absolutely correct - the spider in the picture was a Spiny-Backed Orbweaver. This week's arthropod might be...
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Posted on October 5, 2007 3:32 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A couple of weeks ago, I posted some pictures of some large spiders and asked for help in identifying one of them. Jerry Cates of Bugs In The News got back to me quite quickly, and identified the mystery...
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Posted on September 28, 2007 1:20 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I was out walking yesterday morning when I saw several very large spiders sitting on webs. I had my camera with me, so I shot a bunch of pictures, and got a couple of really nice ones. I think...
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Posted on September 11, 2007 10:19 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mike Dunford is a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studies evolution. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with. 
