You mean all of the times I’ve gone into the clinic to donate a pint of urine, they’ve just been pouring it down the drain after I left?

Not completely unexpected when so few people in modern times have any first-hand experience with animals, aside from (maybe) domestic species. Especially in China.

I’ll bet he went right back into his shell.

It may have been a deep and meaningful relationship.

The Claire North will be worth a read, if Ithaka is anything to go by.

If this is what it’s doing to the cacti, what’s happening to the rest of the desert biota? Even desert-adapted animals have to come out to forage and seek water sometime.

Sturgeon’s Rule is universal.

None of these things sound as though they’d be terribly difficult to supply. Especially the last.

Encouraging cougars to recolonize the eastern woodlands would help with the deer population.

“High-intensity sexual behaviour” and “manatee” are two terms I never thought I’d see in the same sentence.

Perhaps it was tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.

Another specimen of Repenomamus was found with hatchling Psittacosaurus in what would have been its visceral cavity, indicating that this species fed on dinosaurs when it got the chance.

Indeed. Pip, pip, Isaac, you are quite bootless and unhorsed.

Amazing fossil.

Mexico City has a similar problem.

Glad to see that Lars Werdelin got a species named after him, he’s been a major contributor to our knowledge of cat evolution.

Think that a Trump would say that? A lotta big words there.

Yes it was just a fluke.

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The bigger the shark, the more scales. The total area of the keels would probably add up to a surprisingly large number, even if they were individually small. Pushing yourself through water is hard work, even when you’re big. Any advantage would be selectively favoured.