November 9, 2007 – 11:37 pm
A scorpion giving live birth. (John Bokma)
Baby scorpions ride on the back of their mother for the first week or so.
November 7, 2007 – 11:46 pm
From Daily Mail.
A new species of wild pig previously unknown to science has been discovered in the Brazilian jungle.
The large creature grows to a length of more than four feet and is almost twice as heavy as its nearest relative.
Named the ‘giant peccary‘, (photo) the creature was unknown until the skins and bones of animals [...]
October 31, 2007 – 11:34 pm
From The Independent by Steve Connor.
King Solomon is said to have told sluggards to look to the hard-working ant and be wise. Aesop, too, extolled the virtues of the humble ant in his fable explaining why the insect’s constant toiling through the summer months would make for an easier winter compared with the fortunes of [...]
October 24, 2007 – 9:16 pm
View at Young Gallery.
Beautiful photos in black & white
Nick Brandt’s first book of photographs, “On This Earth“, was published in October 2005, by Chronicle Books.
October 11, 2007 – 1:39 pm
From Washington Post by Rick Weiss.
Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
“I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or [...]