Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Joe Kunkel











Some of his haul from the Fall 2007 Groundfish Survey. Link…

Monday, November 19, 2007

Human Protein Atlas







I can't pretend to understand what this is all about but I sure can appreciate the images. Nature as art. I've hugely sampled down these examples but the level of detail of the images on the site is awesome. As at this date there are 2,827,440 images. Link…

Monday, September 24, 2007

Biology






Ernst Haeckel's Radiolaria book from 1862. Link…

Monday, September 17, 2007

Mammaries






On the anatomy of the breast, by Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1840. Link…

Monday, September 10, 2007

An Australian Marsupial Lion


Good grief! "This marsupial predator was adapted to have it’s own fearsome shearing teeth. The premolars essentially became laterally-compressed blades, more high-ridged and pointed at the front, yet still sharp all the way down their length. These teeth in the upper and lower jaw even helped to sharpen each other as they slid past, allowed the predator to retain a sharp edge." "A predator that was less than four-feet long and probably weighed only 220 pounds, had the a bite force equivalent to a modern lion twice its size." Link…

Monday, August 20, 2007

The Sea Slug Forum


The giant Sea Hare can grow to 60cm in length and is found spawning in shallow water during summer and early autumn, from January to March. During summer, beach strandings of hundreds of animals can be found. Sea Hares are poisonous and when they wash up on beaches dogs sometimes lick or eat them.
Just one of many sea slugs to be found at this great resource. Link…

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Stuffed Birds











Extinct birds from the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam (ZMA). Link…

Thursday, December 14, 2006

CMarZ

Pteropod
Oxygyrus
Fabulous creatures at The Census of Marine Zooplankton. Link…

Friday, December 01, 2006

Didymosphenia geminata

Rock Snot
Delightfully known as Rock Snot or Didymo, it is a problem both in the US and New Zealand.