Then there are the Caracaras, falcons which have vulturine characteristics (but not as specialized).

Yep, the 'Old World vulture'* groups are deep within Accipitriformes. Last time I checked, the gypaetine vultures (the screwy oddballs) are two (or three?) separate lineages within the honey buzzard subfamily (Perninae). The more familiar aegypiine vultures are the sister clade of snake eagles, which makes them more…

In case anyone is wondering what the results actually are:

It was really described quite extensively. Paleontologist (!) Mark Witton has a great picture and essay about this on his Flickr.

Despite the name, musk deer aren't deer but members of a separate group (Moschidae) which is apparently more closely related to the bovids (antelope, sheep, cows).

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It's a shame the artwork accompanying the discovery is so hideous. Way too much palaeo-art is stuck in the 19th century mindset of dinosaurs-as-monsters. Thankfully, John Conway has already produced a fantastic painting.

http://johnconway.co/deinocheirus-m…

The term 'fur seal' applies to otariids with dense underfur and subsequently, former commercial interest. Thanks to this loose nomenclature, the terms are far from phylogenetically sound, their application looks like this:

[Fur Seal [Sea Lion [Sea Lion [Fur Seal + Sea Lion]]]]

Well technically Australia is a Commonwealth Realm. "British" refers to the island of Great Britain.

Just about every picture taken by a fisherman has some forced perspective, but this is particularly outlandish.

After reading her book, I would hesitate to call Katherine Harmon Courage an 'expert' on octopuses. She's mostly concerned with eating them. Her ID of Grimpoteuthis is wrong since this octopus does not have a strongly compressed mantle. This is most likely a species of Stauroteuthis although Cirroteuthis muelleri can't…

There's no "meaningful and productive" way to respond to an idea this horrendous. The best response I could find was from Darren Naish:

Unfortunately, information rarely trickles out of peer-reviewed literature sphere, even if there is a growing consensus. Here are a couple recent trees showing relationships within (eu)-arthropoda and just outside it. I feel obliged to point out that the closest 'crustacean' relative of insects and kin — the remipedes…

Onychophorans are generally considered to be outside the group Arthropoda.

You should also clarify that arthropods include crustaceans and insects (which are crustaceans, but that's a story for a different day).