Mysterious and spooky

This week in an ooky mood, hunting seals as they should, hunting reindeer from the sky, how the frog killing fungus works, and giant web-spinning spiders.

Neat, sweet and petite: bioprecipitation (or how bacteria make rain !), why sparrows sing the same ol' song, a wee pachycephalosaur perhaps ?

And finally the kooks. Humpbacks battling, lizards walking on water, barnacle epoxy (move over gorilla tape), rock and roll toads, un-bird-like birds, pumped up starfish, (pa)renting sharks and introducing ... Big Brother of Kronosaurus.

They really are a scream. Happy Halloween !

Ilium, ischium, 'ooray

After a long summer hibernation, I figured it was about time to kick this lazy mammal-like dinosaur back into action. (Note the careful ambiguity about who exactly was doing the hibernating.)

This year will be different, hopefully with less bogose prose and more useful links. So here's a roundup of the summer's best. Follow the links and read on about gulls eating whales, tall tales from the trees, how the race is hotting up, what beetles pine for, about twerps that rule and more.

More such as the advent of Chimptube (TM), how to get under a hadrosaur's skin, the gangs of Serengeti and how flower power is still sweeping across the world.

For no particular reason at all, keep clicking and find out how to make beeballs, who exactly is the Real McDecoy, why
turtles find it so hard to open up and why "dig deeper" might be an older motto than you think.

And if you've been nursing a craving for bad cetacean jokes, never despair, I wouldn't leave you without one.

Do you know what the whale said, when her seventeenth cousin (thrice removed) decided to pay a visit ?

No I don't, what did she say ?

She said, "Come on in deer, the water's wonderful !"

Whalecome back !