Dino Farts Contributed to Mesozoic Global Warming? That’s the thought that flitted through my mind when I saw the headline… Gaseous Emissions from Dinosaurs May Have Warmed Prehistoric Earth As a Vampyre Fangs blog article disclosed a short time ago, this staggering information comes hot on the heels of another theory implicating (albeit with the [...]
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Gaseous Emissions from Dinosaurs May Have Warmed Prehistoric Earth
Posted in Animals, Archaeology, Environment, Humour, Nature, Palaeontology, Research, Science, Thoughts, Zoology, tagged Animals, archaeology, Environment, Humor, Nature, Palaeontology, Research, science, Thoughts, Zoology on May 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
When Blood-Sucking Mega-Fleas Stalked the Earth!
Posted in Animals, Archaeology, Entomology, Environment, History, Insects, Life, Musings, Nature, Research, Science, Thoughts, Zoology, tagged Animals, archaeology, Entomology, Environment, History, Insects, Life, Nature, Research, science, Thoughts, Zoology on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The giant dinosaurs that roamed the world some 150 million years ago shared the planet with equally daunting parasites: blood-gobbling fleas that were up two centimetres long. This according to a recent article in Nature, the international weekly journal of science. (Long, serrated piercing tubes and grasping claws suggest adaptation to feed on hairy animals or feathered [...]
Plants mimic scent of pollinating beetles
Posted in Animals, Botany, Environment, Gardening, Insects, Life, Musings, Nature, Research, Science, Thoughts, Zoology, tagged Animals, Botany, Environment, Gardening, Insects, Life, Musings, Nature, Research, science, Thoughts, Zoology on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How about this for sneaky-boots behaviour!? Plants mimic scent of pollinating beetles This conclusion, reported both in ScienceDaily.com and PhysOrg.com, really caught my eye. How could a flower pull a fast one on an insect? It is a generally accepted belief that the colour and scent of flowers and their perception by pollinator insects evolved [...]
Sex-starved fruit flies driven to drink more alcohol!
Posted in Animals, Culture, Entomology, Environment, Health, Insects, Life, Lifestyle, Love, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, People, Personal, Personal Observations, Psychology, Relationships, Research, Science, Sex, Thoughts, Zoology, tagged Animals, Culture, Entomology, Environment, Health, Insects, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, Nature, Opinion, Psychology, Relationships, Research, science, Sex, Thoughts on March 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Let’s file this under the “Yew jus’ cain’t make this $#!t up!” category, shall we? Apparently… and I am NOT making this stuff up… sexually deprived male fruit flies exhibit a pattern of behavior that seems ripped from the pages of modern man’s ‘That’s the Story of My Life!’ When female fruit flies reject their [...]
Bees Use Sign Language to Give Hornets the Finger!
Posted in Animals, Bees, Education, Entomology, Environment, Insects, Life, Musings, Nature, Science, Thoughts, tagged Animals, Bees, Culture, Education, Entomology, Environment, Insects, Life, Nature, Research, science, Society, Thoughts, Wildlife on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We all know that bees do the most amazing things. They set up intricate societies. They wage war on other bee colonies. They clear their beehives of debris and dead bee bodies. But perhaps one of their most famous talents is the ability to communicate with other bees by means of a ‘wiggle dance’ by [...]
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