Cheeta turns 76
Cheeta turns 76 today, continuing his run as the oldest living non-human primate. You can donate to the CHEETA sanctuary (which also cares for other ex-movie primates) here....Posted on April 9, 2008 12:02 AM • 5 Comments
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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
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Mammals:
Japanese "scientific" whaling resumes
A mother Minke whale and her year-old calf are dragged on board a Japanese whaling ship after being harpooned in Antarctic waters. The picture was taken from an Australian customs vessel tracking the whalers to gather evidence for possible...Posted on February 7, 2008 12:24 AM • 41 Comments
More on those cats
Readers who saw my post yesterday about cat domestication may be interested to see that Greg Laden has posted on the paper. Greg’s view is that "[t]he conclusion the authors draw about cat origins is very weak ... but the...Posted on February 1, 2008 12:28 PM • 2 Comments
I can haz domesticashun?
A recently published study has used microsatelite markers to discover that domesticated cats originated in the Middle East, a finding that reinforces earlier archeological research. The abstract reads: The diaspora of the modern cat was traced with microsatellite markers...Posted on January 31, 2008 10:55 PM • 0 Comments
Grey-faced sengi described
This is a grey-faced sengi, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, a new species of giant elephant shrew that has been described in the February issue of Journal of Zoology (Lond.) (on whose editorial board I sit). It's a 700g beastie, so it...Posted on January 31, 2008 2:06 PM • 3 Comments
Monday Mustelid #2
African Clawless Otter, Aonyx capensis Schinz 1821 [source] [details]...Posted on January 14, 2008 7:36 AM • 2 Comments
Daubenton's Bat
Daubenton’s Bat, Myotis daubentonii Kuhl 1817, hunting over water. Named in honor of the French naturalist Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton who died today in 1800. [source]...Posted on January 1, 2008 4:59 PM • 0 Comments
Quick hit
They "get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them." They, in this case, are not worthless socialites and Hollywood starlets, but elephants in northeastern India, and the speaker is...Posted on November 13, 2007 1:47 PM • 1 Comments
Sad Day
I note that Minazo, Japan’s largest seal died this week. Minazo became an Internet icon: He will be missed. (HT to Ugly Overload)...Posted on October 10, 2007 1:03 AM • 4 Comments
Picture of the Day
Miniature wire-haired dachshund finds 13in, 8lb thigh section of a fossilized Southern elephant (Archidiskodon meridionalis) on English beach. Gets to look very happy about it. [Source]...Posted on October 3, 2007 11:35 PM • 2 Comments
Jaguars in Arizona ... and a little further South
Last October I blogged about the reappearance of jaguars in southern Arizona and the possible effect of Bush’s border fence on the species recovery. While jaguars have been seen in Arizona, the closest breeding population is 125 miles south...Posted on August 16, 2007 2:16 PM • 2 Comments
Optimism and the Yangtze River dolphin
ABC (Australia) is reporting that the Yangtze River dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) may not be definitely extinct after all (see here and here). Wang Ding - who headed the survey team - is reported as saying: This is only...Posted on August 12, 2007 3:52 AM • 1 Comments
The Yangtze River dolphin is officially no more
Back last December I reported that the Yangtze River dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) was "effectively extinct". Now I must report that the species has been declared officially extinct, the first official extinction of a large vertebrate for more than 50 years....Posted on August 8, 2007 1:56 AM • 4 Comments
Baby hyenas
... because hyenas don’t get enough good press. Click to enbiggen. (source)...Posted on July 5, 2007 2:48 PM • 6 Comments
Fresh faced beauty for the Fourth
This little cutie (click for bigger version) is the first Maclaud’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus maclaudi) ever photographed and the first seen in the wild in 40 years. The species was rediscovered in the highland forests of Guinea and is...Posted on July 4, 2007 2:06 PM • 0 Comments
Panda relative discovered, Steve Steve overjoyed
This image released by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing shows front views of a new fossil panda skull, Ailuropoda microta, from Jinyin Cave, Guangxi, China, left, and a living giant panda skull, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, right....Posted on June 18, 2007 6:45 PM • 3 Comments
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