Tag Archives: wildlife
Strange beasts
???? Hajime Emoto makes monsters out of paper and bamboo. The site is entirely in Japanese, but here’s a Google translation of the index page (via Bioephemera – a new blog to me, found in peacay’s recent collection of links, … more…
Say hello to my liddle fren’
Fishermen haul in world’s biggest squid A gigantic 10m-long squid, believed to be the largest ever found, has been caught by New Zealand fishermen in the Ross Sea. Weighing an estimated 450kg, the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was eating a … more…
Tooth and Claw
Mugged by memories as I was drifting off to sleep last night. Years ago, back in Wales one late summer evening, I chased one of these (or a close relative) around my kitchen until I caught her. Once caught, the … more…
Mike Libby’s Insect Sculpture
Mike Libby is making tiny sculptures with real invertebrate carcasses, old wristwatch gears and tiny electronic components. There are spiders, butterflies, bees, wasps, dragonflies and cicadas, but the beetles look the best, I think — possibly because they remind me … more…
Rarest of Chinese mammals believed extinct
So farewell, then, Lipotes vexillifer: A team of foreign and Chinese scientists have failed to find an endangered dolphin during a six-week trip on China’s mighty Yangtze river, making it all but certain the rare animal is extinct. “We have … more…
Stuffed Polar Bears
There’s an exhibition opening this weekend, just up the road at the Horniman Museum, of pictures of stuffed polar bears. It’s the work of Cumbrian artists Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, who set off to photograph every stuffed polar bear … more…
Defamiliarized 3
This morning I find myself stumbling once more into the Natural History Museum site, and into the gallery of last year’s winners in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Look at last year’s winner, would you? Massive gatherings of … more…
Defamiliarized
The door to endless fog, Le Chef, 2006 My first thought about it was that it would make a fine cover illustration for Magnus Mills’ The Restraint of Beasts – which involves fencing, of course, but also derives much of … more…
Two Stags
Scanned from a 70 year old children’s encyclopaedia, The Wonderland of Knowledge, cleaned up a bit and tinted. I did this two years ago. The text is part of the original scan. I’ve often thought this image ought to be … more…
Steve Irwin R.I.P.
I have caught the odd glimpse of Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, on friends’ TVs, now and then, so the news of his accidental death – stung right in the heart by a stingray – must be about the least surprising … more…