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Follow My Nose It Always...uh I think I'm having a hot flash
Very cool paper out in Science today demonstrating that the Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) uses its bill for thermoregulation. The story seems to be getting some good traction with the popular press, u… more →
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Follow My Nose It Always...uh I think I'm having a hot flash
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Neil wrote 4 months ago: Very cool paper out in Science today demonstrating that the Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) uses its b … more →
EXAPTIVE - English words I am in love with #1
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Vitorino Ramos wrote 5 months ago: Fig. – The famous frontispiece from Scilla’s treatise of 1670 defending the organic natu … more →
Mice and Creativity
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bdra wrote 8 months ago: Given it’s April 1st, I woke up this morning with the powerful urge to post a BDRA version of Orson … more →
Sponsorship,Expaptation
Maurice FitzGerald wrote 9 months ago: It’s important to get a “sponsor” in twelve step programs. Being based on a spirit … more →
Something my body needs anyway...I like that.
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: As you’ll note from the logo over there, this marks the first issue of “blogger half-ass … more →
Enigmatic Triassic Hellasaur Thursday -- The mostest unkindestest cut
Neil wrote 1 year ago: Venom–toxic fluid injected to subdue prey or deter potential predators–is widespread in … more →
Spinoza's Idea as Information
kvond wrote 1 year ago: E2p13 The correspondent of the information contituting the human Mind is the Body, or a certain mo … more →
Enigmatic Triassic Hellasaur Thursday...who's counting anway? -- The Duck-billed Ichthyopus
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: When George Shaw received the first platypus skin to make it to England in 1789, he took a pair of s … more →
Volvocine Genes and the Transition to Multicellularity
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Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: I COVERED the volvocine algae recently and promised a post on some of the genes involved in the evol … more →
Evolution of a Novel Gene in Pierid Butterflies
Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: IN MANY CASES even large phenotypic changes can occur without much genetic change. However, occasion … more →
Enigmatic Triassic Hellasaur Thursday: Part the, um fourth?, Kyrgyz Kameleon
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: If you’re hoping to make it into the fossil record, being a small, arboreal insectivore is probably … more →
Woah.
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: Crazy story in Science Daily today about a paper recently published in the Bulletin of the Society o … more →
Smells like Shrew Spirit
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) “sniffing” underwater from Catania 2006 The kind of … more →
Er...How about Mink-tailed Muntjac with Marfan's?
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: Okay, I’m going on record in defense of our favorite AP word-smith, science writer Seth Borens … more →
Can You Hear Me Now?
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: Sure, this Miocene whale ibone looks sick, but the reception’s crap. The ice cream truck troll … more →
In The Eyes of the Aye-ayes
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: Or, “Officer. Of course my pupils are dilated. I’m nocturnal…hey, check out all th … more →
Alien vs. Moray Eel
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: I‘m listening right now to fellow Davisites Rita Mehta and Peter Wainwright on local radio, ch … more →
To the First Whale
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: There is a lot wrong that is wrong about this (n.b. QED!). But I couldn’t resist. Click for th … more →
Auklets Ooze with Affection
Neil wrote 2 years ago: Alcids by Audubon from here. Crested Auklet is lower right. While Secret Sex Lives estivates we … more →
