Symplocos wikstroemiifolia, copyright Jody Hsieh.
The tropical trees that once dominated Europe:
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Symplocos wikstroemiifolia, copyright Jody Hsieh.
The tropical trees that once dominated Europe:
varietyoflife.net/symplocos-su...
Diagrams of Rhizaspis rugosa from Dumack et al. (2017), showing (A) schematic of cell body, (B) resting cell with filopodia extended, (C) motile cell moving leftwards. Scale bar = 10 µm.
The Tectofilosida, a notable group of armoured amoeboids: varietyoflife.net/tectofilosida/
Einasleigh shovel-nosed snake Brachyurophis campbelli, copyright Scott Eipper.
Secretly shovelling, squamate-slurping snakes: varietyoflife.net/brachyurophis/
Odacantha melanura, from tyt.lt.
Ant mimicry obscures ground beetle relationships: varietyoflife.net/odacanthini/
Reconstruction of Aesiocrinus magnificus, from Moore et al. (1978).
The challenge of crinoids: trying to get one's anus as far away from oneself as possible.
varietyoflife.net/texacrinacea/
Galls of Ophelimus maskelli, copyright Faluke.
Ever wondered what makes those little round bumps on the undersides of eucalypt leaves? The answer is wasps:
varietyoflife.net/ophelimus/
Female Pygmephorus, from Pavel Klimov.
Writing a post on the mite genus _Pygmephorus_ proved damn near impossible. I had a hard enough time even pinning down what exactly _Pygmephorus_ was:
varietyoflife.net/pygmephorus/
Blue mussels Mytilus edulis, copyright Andreas Trepte.
Who wants a man with too many mussels?
varietyoflife.net/mytilidae/
It's basically 1930s Sex and the City, but with better writing.
A look at three basal families of Australasian songbirds: varietyoflife.net/euoscines/
Indian anchovies Stolephorus indicus (larger specimens) and Commerson’s anchovies S. commersonii (smaller specimens), copyright Gihan Jayaweera.
Sometimes coming up with a good post title is a real stretch, or even impossible. Sometimes, however, they just kind of write themselves. Today's effort on anchovies was definitely the latter: varietyoflife.net/stolephorus/
Butterfly weed Asclepias tuberosa, copyright Melinda Young Stuart.
The complicated sex organs of milkweeds: varietyoflife.net/asclepias/
Hormosina globulifera, from Brady (1884).
A string of chambers made from sand grains: varietyoflife.net/hormosinida/
Eumolpus ignitus, copyright Udo Schmidt.
Giant metallic leaf beetles of South America: varietyoflife.net/eumolpus/
Wing of Lonicerae russoi, from Gagné (2016). Scale bar = 1 mm.
The system for gall midges still hasn't settled down: varietyoflife.net/oligotrophini/
Panacanthocaris ketmenica, from Novojilov (1957).
Kazacharthrans are monster branchiopods from the Triassic of central Asia, like the fake giant tadpole shrimp meme but real:
varietyoflife.net/calmanostraca/
Strophodonta demissa, copyright Wilson44691.
Silurian-Devonian brachiopods that lived like scallops: varietyoflife.net/stropheodont...
Coryphellina rubrolineata, copyright John Turnbull.
varietyoflife.net has reached the mind-bending total of 6000 pages, with this entry on some stunning sea slugs: varietyoflife.net/flabellinidae/
Small woolly bat Kerivoula intermedia, copyright David Hemprich-Bennett.
Tourism may not be good news for woolly bats: varietyoflife.net/kerivoulinae/
Nocardioides halotolerans, from Dastager et al. (2008).
The Nocardioidaceae: obscure bacteria that could be key to cleaning up some of the world's worst pollution.
varietyoflife.net/nocardioidac...
Good heavens, why? You're talking what, a few dozen genera at most? Most of them monotypic? If anything, that already seems overly fine.
Inflorescences of Fimbristylis dichotoma var. tentsuki, copyright Keisotyo.
Forked fimbry, a globe-trotting weed, and its closest associates: varietyoflife.net/fimbristylis...
Pakynus barnardi, copyright Smithsonian Marine Geo.
These amphipods are obviously ripping into something, but I don't know what: varietyoflife.net/pakynidae/
Asiatic rice borer Chilo suppressalis, copyright LiCheng Shih.
Find out about small boring moths: varietyoflife.net/chiloini/
First-instar larva of Deinelenchus australiensis, from Kathirithamby (1989).
Strepsipterans and their tiny larvae, that may actively launch themselves from their mother's birth canal in search of a host: varietyoflife.net/strepsiptera/
Dorsum of Hermannia convexa, from Woas (1978).
A beetle mite straddling the line between higher and lower: varietyoflife.net/hermanniidae/
Awheaturris pahaoaensis, from Vella (1954).
The passing around of New Zealand Miocene gastropod _Awheaturris pahaoaensis_: varietyoflife.net/raphitomidae/
Male purple-bibbed whitetip Urosticte benjamini, copyright Ethan Currens.
Whitetips: two hummingbirds, alike in dignity, by a mountain range divided: varietyoflife.net/trochilinae/
