Time to Play: Identify the Blurry Ant
Category: ants
Can you identify the colorful, blurry ant in these photos? If so, you might win a prize.
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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.

Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
November 30, 2009
Category: ants
Can you identify the colorful, blurry ant in these photos? If so, you might win a prize.
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Category: Census of Marine Life
Surely, you've heard about the Census of Marine Life, a 10 year long effort to "assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life." You may have wondered why it took until 2000 to launch such a project, or why you didn't think to do it first.
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November 25, 2009
Category: elephant
Dave Goldenberg of Gelf Magazine was kind enough to send along this very graphic, often upsetting, but ultimately pretty awesome video of a baby elephant birth in Indonesia. Watch to the end....
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November 24, 2009
Category: chameleon
Dr. Andy Marshall spotted a helpless little creature being eaten by a twig snake. With the courage and strength often associated with ecologists, Dr. Marshall rescued a new species of chameleon from the jaws of certain death. Well, actually he and his team startled the snake, causing it to drop the chameleon where Marshall's team then picked it up. Dr. Marshall and his cohort Michele Menegon named the species Kinyongia magomberae (the Magombera chameleon).
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November 17, 2009
Category: seal
Feast your eyes on this, squares...
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November 16, 2009
Category: fish
New footage of the world's largest stingray. Thanks to Hunter for bringing this to our attention....
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November 12, 2009
Category: seal
A clip from Werner Herzog's "Encounters At The End Of The Earth."
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Category: osedax worms
Robert Vrijenhoek and Shannon Johnson (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute), and Greg Rouse (Scripps) have recently completed research aimed at classifying 12 new lineages of Osedax worms as their very own species. Upon their 2004 discovery in Monterey Bay,...
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November 8, 2009
November 4, 2009
Category: bat
Andrew just sent me some footage he shot of Benny this past weekend:...
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