If so, get ready for your 15 minutes of fame. ScienceDaily reports that the bug in question has stumped researchers at London’s Natural History Museum.
Experts checked the new bug with those in the Museum’s national insect collection of more than 28 million specimens. Amazingly, there is no exact match.
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Can You Identify This Bug?
Posted in fauna, science news on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
Posted in fauna, flora on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Zounds! There’s really wonderful material at Cambridge University’s Darwin website.
Darwin Online is by far the largest Darwin publication in history. It contains over 43,000 pages of searchable text and 150,000 electronic images. This site contains at least one exemplar of all known Darwin publications, reproduced to the highest scholarly standards, both as searchable text and [...]
Cell Phones Are for the Birds
Posted in fauna, science news, technology on October 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
According to an article in the Telegraph, MIT researchers are using cell phones to call owls.
When Eben Goodale wants to count the birds, he places a call that triggers phones in the forest to play, via speakers, pre-recorded owl calls, such as hoots and whistles.
Territorial owls raise their heads and approach what they think may [...]
