First, having dumped on the Smithsonian in the last post, let me cheer them for putting over 6000 images on Flickr... most of which are public domain. There's a wicked Dunkelosteus skull and nearly 800 of Muybridge's motion photographs (cyanotypes).
Second, let me note the good work of Andrew Bartlett of the Australian Democrats, in raising awareness of the Queensland lungfish that is being threatened by the Queensland government's plans to build a probably useless dam. Thanks to Jason, who Has Connections, for the links.
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Marine biologists off the coast of Australia have discovered what they believe to be hundreds of new species on the Great Barrier and Ningaloo Reefs.
Andrew Bolt is desperate to prove that the floods in Queensland had nothing to do with global warming, even though the science suggests that warming will make floods worse
As you all probably know by now, we here at Zooillogix do not officially consider a species to exist until it is discovered by Western (or at least Western-trained) scientists. Here are some species that now, officially, exist for the first time.
In a previous posting I observed that the homicide rate in New South
Wales fell dramatically following the introduction of gun controls in
1920.
hm, their categorization could use some work.
For example, check out the dinosaurs category, and count the non-dinosaurs.
but all told, it's a beautiful and wonderful contribution.
Well Dunkelosteus is a fish (ignoring paraphyly for the moment), so yes...