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This week’s animal is really a test of whether you paying attention. Post your answers in the comments box below. ID and attribution to follow.

In best cryptozoological tradition, it’s kind of blurry and far away… The human in the picture is called Nicole Duplaix, and the photo’s from her website, so using Google would be a dead easy way of IDing the beast, but … Continue reading →

The Guardian has an exciting-looking article, entitled “New to Nature”, which is about a centipede, Scolopendropsis duplicata, which has been discovered in Tocantins State, central Brazil. This discovery is described in this open access article from the journal Zootaxa by Chagas … Continue reading →

I spotted this via a link on the Le Monde website. The cat is called Rocky, he’s two year’s old, and he lives with a young woman called Daisy in the Gard region of France. Sadly, he doesn’t do this … Continue reading →

As a special Easter treat, here are two animals for you. First, what about this? No, it’s not from Alien. And now, what about this, picked up from both The Times and The Telegraph by Greg Mayer over at WhyEvolutionIsTrue.com. … Continue reading →

It’s not often I’ll cite the rightwing UK newspaper The Daily Mail, but yesterday – as spotted by  Nelly Gidaszewski (PhD class of 07) - they picked up on an amazing set of photos by Polish amateur photographer Mirosław Świętek. Świętek, a … Continue reading →

What is the name of this mammal, in what part of the world does it live, and what is the name of the tree it burrows under?

A recent article in Time looks at various examples of alleged animal suicide, taking as its starting point the recent distressing film about Japanese slaughter of dolphins, The Cove. Animal-rights activist Richard O’Barry, who features in The Cove, is convinced that … Continue reading →