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The Idles of March

Looks like another slow march around these parts, well, more of dirge really.  Hence the carrion which seems as reasonable a metaphor for the rancid stench that’s been lately gathering on the blog...

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Bear Flag Republic

Don’t know about you, but I find it terribly difficult to stay on task while visiting museum collections.  Sure, I’ve got the 20 page print-out of specimens I’m supposed to measure.  And, sure I deeply...

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Faces of Death

Chris Norris recently deployed the term “asteroid porn” for a certain gratuitous style employed by those writing about meteoric catastrophe: Here is a brief summary of a typical piece of asteroid porn....

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Faces of Death 2

Last time, we looked at various portraits of a weak-ass minor planet getting effed up by our atmosphere before getting royally bitch slapped by our lithosphere.  Anyone with a passing interest in...

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Mystery Train

Mystery bird, name 1 field mark to support your id [hint: the laser].

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Laser Bird

north american golden throated laser bird -unforgivable realness / Valin Mattheis © All rights reserved. An innocent enough harbinger of urban destruction, the appearance of the golden throated laser...

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When Bacula Attack

A few weeks back I invited microecos readers to identify this. Almost immediately, and simultaneously, Mo and Valin correctly deduced that it was a baculum, otherwise known as an os penis or “penis...

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Phoning it in

Originally uploaded by Anauxite A bit distracted today, for reasons that will become clear. But I didn’t want to deprive you of your weekly taxidermy dose, so I ducked over to the UC Davis Museum of...

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Catamount

As seen at Sturgeon’s Casino in bustling Lovelock, Nevada. This guy looked a lot more lively than many of the patrons….

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The Last Tapu

All images from the fantastic collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library Got to wondering why my four-year-old post about the Huia, a fascinating and sadly extinct bird from New Zealand, was...

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