by Captain Skellett | Apr 22, 2013 | Recent Research, The Realm of Bizzare
Three new species of brightly coloured carnivorous snail have been found in the limestone hills of Northern Thailand. Each of the species is only found on one or a handful of hills, some of which have become limestone quarries. Pretty impressive, as a quarry is not a...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 14, 2011 | The Realm of Bizzare
Occupy Wall Street protesters took up arms – eight of them – in their march on Monday. Carrying craftastic models of vampire squid high above their heads, in homage to Matt Taibbi’s description of the bank as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the...
by Captain Skellett | Aug 3, 2011 | The Realm of Bizzare
I found this great post on the Portuguese man-o-war, known as the bluebottle in Australia, over at Deep Sea News the other day. It’s eating a fish! The post also said: Remember this species is colonial and made of four different polyps or zooids, working in...
by Captain Skellett | Jan 30, 2011 | Just for Fun, Recent Research, The Realm of Bizzare
Have you ever noticed a mysterious loss of teaspoons at your workplace? Maybe it’s not teaspoons, but some other cutlery item. At my old work it was forks, which dwindled even when I bought new replacement ones. At the Australian National University neither...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 6, 2010 | Recent Research, The Realm of Bizzare
Marsupials are just plain weird when it comes to procreating. I’m not talking about bifurcated penises (where the penis has two heads) although that’s pretty freaking weird. I’m talking about the embryos. When a baby marsupial is born after a 4-5...
by Captain Skellett | Nov 12, 2010 | The Realm of Bizzare
A giant jellyfish, Stygiomedusa gigantea, has been filmed in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s tentacles are 10 meters long and the bell is over half a meter wide. Check out the video below of this denizen of the deep. Hat tip to Deep Sea News.
