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November 30, 2009

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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Census of Marine Life

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

Graphic Elephant Birth

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

Culture Club's not the only thing fresh and chameleony

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

Leopard Seals = Radical

Category: seal

Feast your eyes on this, squares...

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November 16, 2009

Giant Smalleye Stingray

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

Psychedelic Weddell Seals

Category: seal

A clip from Werner Herzog's "Encounters At The End Of The Earth."

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So you think you're diverse enough to start a taxonomy debate?

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

Agility Gerbil Is Go

Category: rodent

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November 4, 2009

FYI

Category: bat

Andrew just sent me some footage he shot of Benny this past weekend:...

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