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• Jay-Z spills the beans: they’re ready for a baby

  
  Snarky Gossip — Authority: 423
  Jay-Z and Beyonce might be ready for a baby? Apparently Jay-Z spilled the beans accidentally in interview ; here’s what he had to say (kind of): While chatting up Gotham mag editor in chief Cristina Greeven Cuomo, the rapper let it slip that procreating is high on the duo’s priority list right now. ...
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• Insect Pollination Before Angiosperms

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 429
  A Probable Pollination Mode Before Angiosperms: Eurasian, Long-Proboscid Scorpionflies 1. Dong Ren (a) 2. Conrad C. Labandeira (b,c,*) 3. Jorge A. Santiago-Blay (b,d) 4. Alexandr Rasnitsyn (e,f) 5. ChungKun Shih (a) 6. Alexei Bashkuev (e) 7. M. Amelia V. Logan (g) 8. Carol L. Hotton (b,h) 9. David Dilcher ...
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• Big Day for Big Spiders

  
  New Life From Old — Authority: 113
  Exciting day today as I submitted some of the results from the spider scans back in August at Glasgow to a big international MRI conference. Hopefully it will be accepted, but if not there are plenty of other routes to try to get the work published in. The submission was the first official submission that I have ...
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• Urban butterflies and dragonflies

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 490
  This is a National Geographic video about butterflies. At the urban birds conference , there was also a lecture about insects. It was by Kars Veling, about Butterflies and dragonflies in cities: more than food for birds. There are quite some butterfly species in Dutch cities and towns. For one category of ...
  4 days ago

• Ever seen a grasshopper chew?

  
  Birders Lounge — Authority: 411
  If this is the sort of animated .GIF file that you can watch for minutes on end…I’m right there with you. As I’ve said before, I don’t have a video camera, but I can often make due with a series of rapid-fire photos. At another spot on the trail, I saw a grasshopper pounce on [...]
  5 days ago

• Insect pollination before flowers evolved

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 490
  This video is called A Panorpa scorpionfly from Frohnleiten, Austria. From Science News : Pollination in the pre-flower-power era Scorpionflies may have aided plant reproduction long before blossoms evolved By Sid Perkins An obscure group of scorpionflies with specialized mouthparts may have ...
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• Injured corals develop colorful glowing “scabs” to help themselves heal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, November 5 (ANI): A new study has found that injured corals develop colorful glowing “scabs” to help themselves heal.When a coral is broken or wounded, it releases highly reactive atoms of oxygen known as free radicals to close up the gashes. But these powerful molecules can also inadvertently kill off ...
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• New marine species discoveries off New Zealand

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 490
  This video from New Zealand says about itself: Carinate Rattail - (Macrourus carinatus) This weird (ugly) fish is from 1061m deep. From off north-east Chatham Rise, east of New Zealand. From the Otago Daily Times in New Zealand: Scientists discover new deep sea life off NZ coast Wed, 4 Nov 2009 A ...
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• Renee Adams and Ernst Haeckel

  
  We Love You So - Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze — Authority: 644
  Renee Adams makes sculptures of creatures that resemble UFOs, wedding cakes, early 19th century industrial machines and koosh balls. “Using both natural and artificial materials,” the artist writes in her statement, “I create imaginary hybrid species that are delicate, alluring, and sometimes awkward or ...
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• Tuesday Miscellany

  
  the Marvelous in nature — Authority: 121
  This week’s miscellany post could almost be relabeled “end-of-season inverts”, as most of the photos are of this group of critters. November is the month where winter finally seems to be taking hold: the trees are barren and gray, the meadow grasses are dried and dead, temperatures are falling, there’s often ...
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• Green-billed Malkoha foraging on the ground

  
  Bird Ecology Study Group — Authority: 132
  “I enjoy malkohas for two reasons. Firstly, they are an unusual bird to find in an urban garden or park due to the large size (50-60 cm.). They usually come and go largely unseen by the average person who does not even know it lives in our midst. Secondly, they are generally friendly and love [...]
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• Tay Meadows Tidbit – Signs of bear

  
  the Marvelous in nature — Authority: 121
  I’m revisiting some photos I took a while ago with the intention of using in their own posts (so I didn’t include them in Miscellanies), but then for this reason or that didn’t get around to posting them. This one is of a rock I found at the back of our property. It was about a foot (30 cm) across, but only a ...
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• Crazy for Caterpillars

  
  Birders Lounge — Authority: 411
  Why am I just now noticing caterpillars? Sure, I’ve seen a few here and there – but I am learning that there are tons of super-cool caterpillars all around us. They don’t necessarily resemble their moth- or butterfly-selves, and it’s a toss-up as to which form is more showy. How do I know this? Because [...]
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• Spider web from dinosaur age discovered

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 490
  Spider Research Offers Fossil Insight This video says about itself: A team of British researchers have been rebuilding fossils of 300-million year old spiders using computer 3-D technology- they say they are providing a clearer picture of how some extinct species once lived on early Earth. From the BBC : ...
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• Stork-billed Kingfisher catches crayfish

  
  Bird Ecology Study Group — Authority: 132
  Myron Tay photographed a Stork-billed Kingfisher (Halcyon capensis) catching a crayfish at Mandai on a morning in September 2009.According to Myron, the kingfisher “gobbled up the crayfish, although its throat was just about the size of its prey! Guess it was in no mood to share its catch! I also learnt that it has ...
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• Pondskater and long-tailed tits

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 490
  This video says about itself: Pond skater. Gerris sp. feeding on ants that have fallen from bushes and are trapped in the surface tension. Also close up view of adult and nymph. Today, in the brook in the botanical garden, a pondskater. Just outside the garden, a group of long-tailed tits .
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• Blue-winged Leafbird takes on a long-horned grasshopper

  
  Bird Ecology Study Group — Authority: 132
  Jason Cho documented a series of images showing a female Blue-winged Leafbird (Chloropsis cochinchinensis) eating an adult male Green Katydid (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) or long-horned grasshopper.This leafbird regularly catches grasshoppers, including large ones. Here, the bird would have earlier subdued the ...
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• Fanged frog, giant rat, and more found in Papua New Guinea

  
  Animal News: Animal Planet — Authority: 421
  A fanged frog ( Mantophryne sp) discovered in Papua New Guineas remote Bosavi volcano crater Credit Allen Allison Last week I talked about the amazing animal discoveries in Asias Mekong delta, and heres the other promised story about an amazing expedition to the "lost world" of Papua New Guineas Bosavi ...
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• A shameful failure at hospitality

  
  Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds) — Authority: 425
  Often I go looking for critters; sometimes they come to me. This week, Ive had a half-dozen visitors show up at my door or on my wall. Helpful! Saved me grubbing around in the cold and damp. An Indian Meal moth, Plodia interpunctella . Fed to the Venus fly-trap . Ive had a bit of an infestation of ...
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• New wasp species discovered in England

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 490
  From the Natural History Museum in London, England: A new species of parasitoid wasp that feeds on the common whitefly pest has been discovered in the UK by a Natural History Museum scientist. Museum wasp expert Dr Andrew Polaszek found the tiny 1-mm-long insect, Encarsia aleurochitonis , near his home in ...
  2 weeks ago

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