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Comment on NEANDERTHALS AND US by amirazara

amirazara — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:36:46 +0000

I enjoyed your post!
Check out my archaeological blog post of the day. It refers to Neanderthals!

http://amirazara.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/new-manners-of-thinking/

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Comment on Eyes from the deep past by uninterestingthings aka Dominic

uninterestingthings aka Dominic — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:07:56 +0000

That is absolutely fascinating. Thanks for posting on this Matthew!

Comment on Things we never knew: maggots are covered in eyes! by Could a new photoreceptor in fly larvae give us a glimpse at the evolutionary origins of vision? « Arthropoda

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:46:29 +0000

[...] Could a new photoreceptor in fly larvae give us a glimpse at the evolutionary origins of vision? Published on December 9, 2010 in Dipterans (Flies) and Vision. Tags: chromophore, evolution, opsin, Photoreceptor, Vision. A fruit fly larvae, or maggot, with body photoreceptors labeled with a fluorescent protein. From Xiang et al., 2010.Last month, a paper was published in Nature showing that fruit fly larvae (Drosophila melanogaster) have a photoreceptive system spread across their entire bodies in diffuse sensory neurons. This system is involved in escape responses that protect the larvae from exposure to high intensity light. (For a thorough explanation of this paper read this post by Matthew Cobb.) [...]

Comment on A NEW ANOMALOCARIS MYSTERY by Taupo

Taupo — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:41:44 +0000

Here is a link to the article that I’ve published on my blog, loosely adapted from your excellent post:
http://ssaft.com/Blog/dotclear/index.php?post/2010/11/29/Crevette-Zarbi

I’ll actually continue on this topic this week or the next to tackle the subject of the demise of Anomalocaris superpredator fame.

Thank you again

Comment on NAME THAT ANIMAL! by Steph

Steph — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:56:23 +0000

I’m massively out of date but if current students are interested the course coordinator of the MSc Con Sci at Imperial is the chair of the Saiga Conservation Alliance and there tends to be at least one student a year who does a project on saigas. There’s huge problems with poaching and illegal trade of the horns, which are hollow and therefore obviously make very fetching lamps.

Comment on A NEW ANOMALOCARIS MYSTERY by Taupo

Taupo — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:57:01 +0000

Thank you very very much! My Blog is called Strange Stuff and Funky Things and its URL was already embedded in my profile here, but here it is anyway:
http://ssaft.com/Blog/dotclear/

I’ll work on the translation during this we and post it on Monday.
I might also include informations about this other post too:
http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/500-million-year-old-predator.html

Thank you again.

Comment on A NEW ANOMALOCARIS MYSTERY by Matthew Cobb

Matthew Cobb — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:54:31 +0000

Bien sur! Envoyez-moi l’URL de votre blog, svp.

Comment on A NEW ANOMALOCARIS MYSTERY by Taupo

Taupo — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:08:19 +0000

Hello,

I’m a French Blogger and would like to translate your wonderful article on my Blog, with proper references and credits of course.
Would you be willing to allow me to do that?

Thank you in advance

Comment on NAME THAT ANIMAL! by Steve T

Steve T — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:22:08 +0000

a nematode of some sort – do you get points for Phylum?

Comment on NAME THAT ANIMAL! by Michael Natt

Michael Natt — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:07:02 +0000

Leech bite…

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://archive.student.bmj.com/back_issues/0898/graphics/leechbite.jpg&imgrefurl=http://archive.student.bmj.com/back_issues/0898/data/0898ed5.htm&usg=__CS2-q23yuyUJzHE-HW-guoV_BWk=&h=223&w=270&sz=12&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=o-rJRrKNTzKWEM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=152&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dleech%2Bbite%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D563%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=587&vpy=117&dur=895&hovh=178&hovw=216&tx=96&ty=57&ei=GoLdTOaMMYKT4gb1p_QG&oei=6X7dTKnfIsq4hAfGg6jaDA&esq=4&page=1&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0