Sure, I know The Jesus Lizard is a band, but scientists have now found a lizard worthy of the name.
Well, not exactly. Perhaps this particular lizard would be better considered the Mary Lizard.
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Sadly, I haven't seen any good pareidolia stories lately, you know, stories in which someone, usually Jesus, Mary, or the Pope (or sometimes Elvis, who, let's face it, is basically the same thing as Jesus, Mary, or the Pope), shows up as a seeming image on some sort of object or other. It can be…
Have you ever been walking through the forest and thought to yourself, "Damn, its loud here...it's really, really hard to hear anything anybody else is saying"? Well, maybe that's what prompted Terry J. Ord and Judy A. Stamps, respectively from Harvard and UC Davis to investigate lizard exercise…
Well, well, well. The blogging this week has been mostly serious and dense, with discussions of Hitler's mother's breast cancer and two rather long posts about medicine and evolution. I don't know why, but I got a little carried away. In any case, it's Friday, and it's time for lighter fare. And,…
I didn't write this. It is a guest post from Mrs Lambert, so be nice.
Everyone knows the Christmas story. Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem, the Inn is full so Mary has to give birth in a stable. The story sounds sweet, emphasizing the humble circumstances of Jesus' birth.
But that's not the…
I always thought this was the Jesus Lizard.
"Well, not exactly. Perhaps this particular lizard would be better considered the Mary Lizard."
Yes but that would still make the offspring Jesus lizards so the original moniker still works.
some zoology grad student with a male dragon in his or her apartment is laughing all the way to a Nature article right now.
Reminds me of the search for the giant woodpecker, currently assumed extinct, in the swamps of Louisiana a few years ago. NPR actually had an audio bit where you could hear swamp sounds (bugs, bees, wind) and then a boom. This old prof was excitedly pronouncing that boom to be the work of said woodpecker. It was the saddest and funniest thing I'd ever heard. I'd bet more money than I have that some grad student had simply slammed two logs together and rolled over in fits of hysteria. It's one way to get a thesis.
BC, why so cynical? Parthogenisis in reptiles is well established. Parthenogenesis in Livebearing Snakes...Explained
The mechanism used by wandering garters and timber rattlesnakes appears to be at work with the Komodo dragons.
eek, bizarro. I would still like to see the experiment in a journal rather than stories and I'm shocked to hear that this is claimed to occur in domestic chickens and turkeys.
But why so cynical? Because I know people who'd think pulling one over on an old prof to be wildy funny.
some zoology grad student with a male dragon in his or her apartment is laughing all the way to a Nature article right now.
I would still like to see the experiment in a journal rather than stories
We got us a live one.