Category Archives: Biospheric
droplets
Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at … more…
incoming
2100 GMT satellite image Johanna looks pretty tasty…
serendipitous crustacean
This image, which illustrates a post called Clink-Klonk-Clank! at Little White Earbuds, turned up on FFFF this evening. The post concerns unreleased electronica by a Mr Somewhere. I followed the links, but found no recurrence of the image, so it … more…
Introducing Indohyus
The land-based ancestor of whales : Nature News The teeth hint that the wading creature still preferred terrestrial plants over fish, indicating that it probably took to water to get away from predators rather than in search of food. (via … more…
Haeckel’s Problematical Phylogeny
I’ve had the beginnnings of this post hanging around backstage here since the early summer. Today, the handsome cephalopod illustration above showed up on FFFF, and so (in the absence of any compelling alternative) tonight, Ernst Haeckel, this is your … more…
festive brass toad
can has bluebottlz? Gorbless us, every one. UPDATE: the preceding post is apparently not considered related, and without it — if you are arriving in the hereafter, once this has scrolled away — you will not see the origin of … more…
links for 2007-12-05: daily coyote
The Daily Coyote Shreve Stockton and her cat are raising an orphaned baby coyote in a log cabin in Wyoming. Frequent updates and lots of pictures, many of them quite insufferably cute… (via J-Walk) (tags: coyote wildlife Wyoming)
more tentacles
I haven’t discovered any information from the site this came from. The relevant information is displayed as an image, and there’s no alt text provided. (via FFFF again. I am thinking that perhaps I should be looking at setting up … more…
“Mushroom Faking” by Dexter Petley
From Caught By The River, which is new to me: Seasons have become increasingly meaningless. Weather patterns within very localised habitats are the key to mushroom knowledge, and the resulting forest-craft is no different to water-craft. I learned this one … more…
persistence of cephalopods
A few weeks ago, I ran across a bunch of pictures by visioluxus at DeviantArt, Of The Deep (nsfw) which featured a model tastefully draped with an octopus. I was reminded of, and was prompted to locate the Hokusai woodcut, … more…