Category Archives: Quiz
NAME THAT ANIMAL!
Go as far into the taxonomic detail of this thing as you can!
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NAME THAT ANIMAL!
This week’s photo has been stolen from Marcus Stensmyr’s Facebook page. Marcus is in the Deparment of Evolutionary Neuroethology in Jena, and works on olfaction in Drosophila (and land crabs). And the great thing is, I have no idea what … Continue reading
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EUROPE 1.8 MY AGO – BBC GETS IT WRONG?
November 2007 Giant hyenas, giraffes and sabretooth cats roamed around Southern Spain 1.8 MY ago. A great collection of fossils have been unearthed at Fonelas in Granada. BBC article. Scroll down the BBC page – what’s wrong with the picture of the sabretooth? … Continue reading
SPIDER DAVE DIGITALLY DISSECTS
November 2007 Dr David Penney, from the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, a.k.a. Spider Dave, has used Very High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography to dissect a 1mm spider that has been preserved in amber for 53 MY. Amazing pictures. The spider … Continue reading
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DEVILS IN DANGER
October 2007 The Tasmanian Devil suffers from a horrible viral cancer which is killing off the population. Conservationists are trying to take measures to save them. Faculty of Life Sciences trivia quiz: which member of staff has a scar from a Tasmanian Devil bite? … Continue reading
Filed under Diseases, Manchester, Marsupials, Quiz
NAME THOSE CATS
March 2007 Bet you don’t know the names of the middle two species. Answer here (in the caption).
Filed under Classification, Mammals, Quiz
