Showing posts with label Bats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bats. Show all posts
Sunday, February 1, 2026

We may have a problem

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  Credit: Shree Ganesh  Something called the Nipah virus is spreading in South Asia. There is no known cure or antidote, and the lethality i...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

On the cryptid cusp

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  A video entitled "The Most Mysterious Cryptids in the World". Somewhat ironically, many of them seem more plausible than the reg...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Mammalian butterflies

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  An entertaining review by Darren Naish of a strange French book in the "speculative zoology" genre: "Demain, les Animaux du...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Dracula´s hidden kingdom

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  Credit: Charles J Sharp  ¨ “Dracula´s Hidden Kingdom” is the dramatic title of a fairly regular nature documentary about Transylvania in R...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

The land of desolation

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  So I just watched the nature documentary "Wild Ireland: Kingdom of Stone", about the apparently world famous karst landscape bet...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Moonbats

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  One of the most funny theories in science, but unfortunately disproven by DNA studies! Yes, it´s the idea that fruitbats or megabats are m...

Controversial clades

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  This one might be a bit confusing, tbh. But there you go!
Friday, May 7, 2021

Here be preferred pronouns

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I might write a criticism of this essay later, but for now, I want you to read it just for the sheer fun of the anecdote retold in the first...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Cornering the camel

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"A Perfect Planet: Weather" is the third installment in the recent BBC Earth saga. As usual, we get to see the wild, the weird and...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Hell´s Bells

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"Mysterious Planet: Giants of the Carribean" is a spectacular but also somewhat confusing documentary about...essentially everythi...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Eufalconimorphae: Finally, a clade that makes some sense!

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If this idiot blogger calls me chicken one more time, I´m gonna go ultra-rogue on him! So DNA research suggests that falcons are more c...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Vampires in the attic

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This is a photographic field guide, complete with photographic keys, to the bats of Europe. Or "Britain and Europe", as th...