Organisms
pharyngula | October 15, 2010Yes! You can watch the giant squid episode of Inside Nature's Giants. There's a little squeeing going on in my hotel room right now, I'm just glad no one else is here to record me.
pharyngula | October 15, 2010
Via National Geographic, which also offers this video of Humboldt Squid Wrestling.
pharyngula | October 13, 2010
(via Meadowview Biological Research Station
Hey, there's a cause associated with this image. Meadowview is trying to win a $50,000 grant to purchase a 5 acre bog in Virginia to be set aside as a preserve for carnivorous pitcher plants. All you have to do is go to this site and vote to help them achieve that goal. I think you can vote every day, too.
pharyngula | September 27, 2010
One can almost pity the brown snake. They're a dreadfully persistent invasive species, but they're going to try and exterminate them by paradropping poison-laced mice into the jungles of Guam.
pharyngula | September 13, 2010Here's a blog post on the French naturalist Jean Painlevé which I can't read, because it's in French, of all things, but I can look at the pictures…and hey, those Frenchmen do like their innuendos and salacious slipperiness.
I think that may be the raciest video I've ever posted here…whew.
pharyngula | September 10, 2010Mark (Monty) Montague was an occasional commenter here, and a major contributor at TONMO with a passion for cephalopods. I'm sorry to report that he died in in a diving accident this summer. There will be a memorial service on 2 October at Caltech.
Sepioteuthis sepioidea