by Captain Skellett | Jul 15, 2012 | Recent Research
Something happened when I was spliced, something wrong. Some random event in my chromosomes, I suppose it was. In any event, I wound up lacking. My sister took all the toxin genes, and I was left with nothing. It’s a scary world out there for a fungus without a...
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 | Aug 4, 2009 | The Realm of Bizzare
This is the freakiest fungus I have ever seen, freakier even than the giant man-eating one in “Field Trip,” my favourite episode of the X-Files (Season 4). The story is a bit like an X-File too, so for the purposes of this blog picture me red-headed,...