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ORIGIN OF LIFE Big-Bang Theory :                             Proposed by Abbe Lemaitre. According to this theory, the universe originated about 15 billion…

A Nightmare Catcher flitters through the rainforests of Bolivia, sticky net in hand.Some say she feeds on nightmares, her gut…

• It is the science that deals with the processes and regulations in the prenatal growth and development of an…

Scorpions, tough Chelicerata arachnids, well known for their association with the one of the most hostile, hottest environments on earth……

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Back in October 2014, Asha de Vos, a Sri Lankan marine biologist, took the stage at TEDGlobal to deliver a six-minute speech called “Why…

Figure 1: The grey wolf (Canis Lupus) We’ve all been there, trying to get some out of reach object only to…

Anglers have been asked to report catches and sightings of an invasive species of salmon in Scottish rivers.Pink salmon are…

ON THIS DAY IN – 0064 – The Great Fire of Rome began.And now some more recent news from the CFZ…

I headed out a week prior with a friend who had never seen the rookery to scout for the event.…

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on January 12th, 2023 One small step for man, one giant step for Bigfoot: Fremont artist’s…

The specimen is a lower jaw. No skull, no limb bones, nothing postcranial at all. And yet this fragment of…

  I thought last year was a great experience to push my artistic skills out of my comfort zone, and…

It was 0758 when the earthquake hit on Wednesday. I was in the kitchen of my hostel in Taipei, Taiwan…

Personally, I consider sea serpents more credible than lake monsters. It’s the logistics of it all. The…

Imagine escaping to an island. You’d need to outsmart new predators, seize novel food sources, and cope without escape routes—perhaps…

Arthropod-like organisms termed wadudu (singular mdudu) are abundant across the planet and include multi-limbed, terrestrial taxa that resemble spiders, millipedes…

Welcome to Zygoma. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are not those of my employer (the…

Anole Annals is actually a nice case study in how a field-specific online community formed around a scientific blog in…

Co-author Irina Rotenko High mortality in wolf pups is a well‑known demographic bottleneck that strongly shapes wolf populations worldwide. Belarus…

In boreal forests, many hares adopt white winter coats before the snow arrives. In a snowless landscape, these white hares lack camouflage against…

 Hello again from Serena camp!   Exciting things have been happening with all three of our clans since we last…

Let’s face it. As a general rule, vultures – and especially the Old World vultures – are not a good-looking…

Name: Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha (Senior AI/ML Research Scientist) Location: University of Missouri-Kansas City Zooniverse projects: Galaxy Zoo, Galaxy Zoo: Weird…

Insects make up the vast majority of animal species on Earth, but their populations are declining rapidly.   The ability…

The marine team at the University museum has a rich and varied track record of events during the annual week…

Sometimes birds turn up in unusual places. Birders in Hong Kong were out in force in February–not to some remote…

 Might the mulilo – if it exists – look something like this? (created by Dr Karl Shuker using Dream Lab)…

Dagher, J. and Greiner, E. (2024). Variation in white-tailed and mule deer dental metrics is associated with precipitation gradients in…

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Toxodera are mimics of the living and the dead! Toxodera is a small genus containing a handful of Southeast Asian…

• Genes are carriers of blueprints for formation of cells, tissues, organs, and organism. Genes are made up of a…

The world is full of charismatic predators; big cats, wolves and crocodiles, which are commonly the focus of TV shows…

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It’s almost springtime, and that means … babies! As humans, we can all more or less agree on what it takes to raise…

Latest posts by Niamh McCartan (see all) In December 2023 the discipline of Zoology in the School of Natural Sciences,…

Big cat in Carolinas  North Carolina man reels in record-setting 127-pound blue catfishIt is the third-largest blue catfish ever caught in…

Gonzo Weekly #455/6THE IRON ZION LION ISSUEThis magazine continues to go off on strange tangents that I never expect, but…

I knew I was in trouble in Alaska my first fall. The park starts to shut down mid September and…

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on January 30th, 2023 The question of whether Bigfoot exists has been the subject of speculation,…

There are grooves on ancient human teeth that look like someone spent time working between their molars with a stick.…

This summer I started experimenting with using watercolors in the hope to start doing more drawing while out hiking and…

I flew past Mount Everest in 2016. Her perfectly shaped snow-capped summit jutting out of the fluffy white clouds on…

Readers will no doubt be familiar with the name of Ivan T. Sanderson who, along with Bernard…

Flightless birds show a deterministic reduction in keel size and sternum curvature as body mass increases. When birds give up…

Clearly, much remains to be learnt about the anatomy of dinosaur brains and what that anatomy does, or does not,…

Welcome to Zygoma. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are not those of my employer (the…

Happy ending: they both lived to see another day thanks to the screen between them! Thanks to Miriam Lipsky for…

Co-authors: Louise Giovannelli and Irina Rotenko Usually, from May until the end of September, wolves engage in territorial marking only…

I used to think it was merely a post-COVID19 hiccough, but the extensive delays in receiving reviews for submitted manuscripts…

Our Happy Zebra clan’s den is located very far off-road. When we first arrived at this location, there was a…

Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors of your lodge (please only name one species)?…

Happy 2026 from the Zooniverse team! As we look back on 2025, there’s a lot worth celebrating in the Zooniverse…

Research published today in the journal Science Advances shows that part of the answer lies in a subtle but consequential shift…

There are periods when you wait quietly for good news to knock. Then there are those rare, wonderful times when…

In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the…

 A typically-patterned male northern bushbuck in Senegal (© Lucy Keith-Diagne/Wikipedia – CC BY 4.0 licence) Bushbucks are the smallest members…

Vasconcelos, B.D., Camurugi, F., Mudrek, J.R., Brandão, R.A. and Santana, D.J. (2025). Rivers and spatial distance are drivers of genetic…

Zoologylearningpoint channel link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC48ShFOo6BcplE7_9DiytHQ Zoologylearningpoint channel’s Trailer= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2GrGG53tsQ Links of zoologylearningpoint channel’s lectures= Origin of Life – Ancient Theories for…

Aspidistras are famous for their ability to withstand and even flourish under the kind of neglect that would usually end…

The process of formation of gametes is called “gametogenesis”. The gametes are derived from primordial germ cells/ primitive sex cells.…

Right, well I hope you all enjoyed the previous post about the formidable Assassin Bugs of the Hemipteran family, Reduviidae,…

https://youtu.be/MUf1fm3vCcU Watch the video about hippos and find at least 5 physical adaptations they have to help them survive in…

Today, we built a Bug House! This is a fun activity to do with kids of all ages that requires…

By Francesco Martini We are living in a biodiversity crisis, with many species shrinking in numbers and at risk of…

Meet “Brunswick” And 8 Other Bone Chilling Great White Sharks Who Have Visited Our Jersey Shore943thepoint.comCats are predators and natural hunters, but…

Woot Woot the lads are back with another cornucopia of Fortean frolics:- Gef the talking mongoose- Lake monsters in the…

When I knew I was moving back to Minnesota, I checked an apartment complex that was on my old birding…

He found Giants then the Government Found Him | What really happened to Andrew Dawson? Andrew started his TikTok account…

Picture this: a 43-year-old bonobo watches as a researcher tips an empty pitcher over two empty cups, miming the gesture…

 I was invited by the fine folks in Digital Marketing at DreamWorks Animation to create a drawing of my choice…

The Buddhists say grief is the price we pay for love. On Friday night the wounds I had just managed…

Who knows what mysterious creatures might walk out of the jungles of southeast Asia? Rumours abound of…

What’s the bare minimum needed for life? Scientists may have just found the answer in a tiny archaeon named Candidatus…

For previous TetZoo articles on birthdays and other landmarks, see…Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part I), January 2007Happy first birthday…

Last week I gave you this bony structure to identify: I didn’t think this one would prove too difficult, since…

Figure 1: A) Trunk-dwelling Cyrtodactylus consobrinus © L. Grismer. Its subdigital scales (the scales below the digits, where toepads might…

Co-authors: Louise Giovannelli and Irina Rotenko From mid-August to the end of October, we closely monitored the wolf families that…

Procreating with a relative is taboo in most human societies for many reasons, but they all stem from avoiding one…

Hello again from Serena camp! As you may have seen from our last two posts on North and Happy Zebra clan,…

Red-backed Flameback – Tissamaharama area, Mar 23, 2025 White-naped Woodpecker – Tissamaharama, Mar 20, 2025 Yellow-crowned Woodpecker – Yala NP,…

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Research published in Nature Communications on Thursday 15 January 2026, co-authored by Dr Joseph Millard of our Agroecology Research Group, provides new…

Do you study (marine) biology at the University of Bergen? Are you interested in a 1-month funded internship in Brazil,…

Drawing of Tuataras by Mary Edith Durham (1863-1944) for Hans Gadow’s volume Amphibia and Reptilesin the Cambridge Natural History series of…

 Yours truly in front of a life-sized model of a giant prehistoric scorpion, on exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum…

Wale, C.H., McConnell, S., van Leeuwen, S., Cowan, M.A., Spencer, P.B.S., How, R.A. and Schmitt, L.H. (2025). Disruption and irruption…

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Pac-Man was always such a harmless soul, lost in the labyrinth of his own mind, chased by ghostly memories of…

• Definition: The process of maturation and differentiation of PGC to oogonia, primary oocytes, secondary oocytes and to mature ova…

I have been, very kindly, nominated to take part in the Sunshine Blogger Award by Kannan Raja, the author of…

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Some creatures make a living by pretending to be something they’re not. (Like Halloween, every day!) In one high-flying example, zone-tailed…

The TCD Botany-Zoology Postgraduate Symposium made its annual return this month on the 7th and 8th of March for its…

Malay tapirs are glorious. These adorable animals spend their time innocently wandering around the rainforests of Southeast Asia, blissfully grazing on…

 The Gonzo Daily: Sunday Okay, boys and girls, this is all going to get a bit complicated. As you may…

Incidentally, as I was doing all this deep diving on the red-bellied woodpecker tonight, I noted that All About Birds…

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on February 2nd, 2023 Return of the Dodo? Scientists launch project to bring back the extinct…

In 1952, a Japanese ecologist named Kinji Imanishi wrote something that would take 72 years to reach most of the…

It’s that time of year again! Here’s this year’s contact sheet of goofy jack-o-lantern pumpkin designs:(click to enlarge)It seems like…