21 posts tagged with biology by brundlefly.
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With friends like these, who needs anenomes?
"Do pink fairy armadillos exist?"
Alternative Timeline Dinosaurs
Alternative Timeline Dinosaurs, the View From 2019: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3: The Dinosauroid and its Chums
Pity the musk ox.
Long in the Tooth
"She was born during the reign of James I, was a youngster when René Descartes set out his rules of thought and the great fire of London raged, saw out her adolescent years as George II ascended the throne, reached adulthood around the time that the American revolution kicked off, and lived through two world wars. Living to an estimated age of nearly 400 years, a female Greenland shark has set a new record for longevity, scientists have revealed." [more inside]
Evolution Lab
"What could you possibly have in common with a mushroom, or a dinosaur, or even a bacterium? More than you might think. In this Lab, you’ll puzzle out the evolutionary relationships linking together a spectacular array of species. Explore the tree of life and get a front row seat to what some have called the greatest show on Earth. That show is evolution." Evolution Lab is a educational game created by the Life on Earth Project and NOVA Labs
Troubles in Paradise
Troubles in Paradise is a review of the history and arguments of the creationism/intelligent design movement, written by James Downard.
Fish Live Beneath Antarctica
Sprouting feathers and lost teeth
"A remarkable international effort to map out the avian tree of life has revealed how birds evolved after the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs into more than 10,000 species alive today. More than 200 scientists in 20 countries joined forces to create the evolutionary tree, which reveals how birds gained their colourful feathers, lost their teeth, and learned to sing songs." Via iO9.
"Transmogrification event caused by incorporation of alien bacteria!!!"
Evolution is wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
Paleo-pedantry
Dimetrodon is not a dinosaur! Sorry to ruin your childhood yet again, but it's not even a reptile. It's a synapsid, which makes it one of our cousins. [more inside]
The People Who Saw Evolution
"Peter and Rosemary Grant are members of a very small scientific tribe: people who have seen evolution happen right before their eyes."
Slow Life
Ghosts of Evolution
After a species goes extinct, in some cases its "ghost" may linger in the ecosystem it leaves behind in the form of evolutionary anachronisms. [more inside]
"Somebody's gotta stand up to these experts!"
PhyloPic: an open database of life form silhouettes
PhyloPic is an open database of life form silhouettes. All images are available for reuse under a Public Domain or Creative Commons license. [more inside]
Though primitive, even these early species had already adapted fully to parasitism on the plastic membranes of apple bags.
It made Tyrannosaurus rex. It made Bin Laden too.
Man As Industrial Palace
Artist Henning Lederer has adapted Fritz Kahn's illustration "Man As Industrial Palace" [previously] as an interactive installation. [via SciencePunk]
"People are trying things; kettles are exploding. Everyone’s attempting magic right and left."
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