Mantis shrimps: is there anything they can’t do? 21 Mar 2008 They see in 12 colours and using polarised light, they move at the speed of a bullet. Go read about them at Not Exactly Rocket Science. Yes, they are the coolest inverts… Ecology and Biodiversity
Ecology and Biodiversity New paper on polyploid speciation 27 Aug 2009 For a long time now, people have known of speciation by the multiplication of chromosomes (polyploidy), either of one’s own chromosomes (autopolyploidy) or by doubling a mismatched set from some other species’ chromosomes (allopolyploidy) to even up the numbers and gene complements. Some have thought this to be an uninteresting… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity The constancy of change and the lack of balance 16 Sep 2007 All the strangers look like family All the family looks so strange The only constant I am sure of Is this accelerating rate of change — Peter Gabriel, Downside-Up, from the Ovo Album Creek Running North has a delightful rumination on the lack of a balance of nature, in which… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Couple of organismic blogs 20 Jun 2007 No! Not orgasmic! [There, that should bump up the hits] You all know, of course, the inestimable Darren Naish and his wonderful blog Tetrapod Zoology. What? You don’t? Go there immediately and come back when you’ve read it all, and the old site too. [Fifteen days later] So, I wanted… Read More
I see you’ve chosen your side on this battle. I’m only sorry you couldn’t have chosen more wisely. ;p
Now, if we could just crossbreed them with cuttlefish to give them the latter’s amazing powers of camouflage, we’d have the perfect nautical ninja. They’d be a sort of submarine version of the alien from Predator
Now, if we could just crossbreed them with cuttlefish to give them the latter’s amazing powers of camouflage, we’d have the perfect nautical ninja. They’d be a sort of submarine version of the alien from Predator
I gotta get me a bullet proof aquarium and some of those buggers. Then I can drop in lots of Cephalopods and sent PZ pictures of the ensuing carnage.