Organisms
pharyngula | September 6, 2010Yellow-bellied three-toed skink
She's transitional! This is a live-bearing reptile carrying a load of eggs, and with a modified membrane to secrete calcium and other nutrients to the embryos.
She's also looking a bit pugilistic about it all, too.
pharyngula | August 24, 2010This fascinating clip featuring Sir David Attenborough captures an enchanting courtship between two incredibly graceful sea creatures.
pharyngula | August 23, 2010Limax maximus
(Warning! Video below flaunts fantastic gymnastic hermaphrodite sex. You will be forever crippled with deep feelings of sexual inadequacy forever more after watching it.)
pharyngula | August 9, 2010Envy no more! There is a way you too can possess a luxurious full beard.
The big soiree is this weekend, so start practicing.
pharyngula | August 6, 2010Benthoctopus sp.
This was photographed on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Human beings are persona non grata in that neighborhood anymore, I suspect.
Actually, is there anywhere in the ocean we'd be liked? Except as a snack?
(via Spiegel)
pharyngula | July 26, 2010Anoura fistulata tonguing Centropogon nigricans
(via Botany Photo of the Day)