2008

Black Wolf Howling (Photo: Steve Martin’s Working...

Leafy Sea Dragon

For the lowdown on the elegant marine dragons, visit Earlham College’s Biological Diversity...

The exotic-looking and flamboyantly beautiful Sea Dragons...

Weedy Sea Dragon

Two species, the Weedy and the Leafy, are related to the sea...

The Long Arm of Love

Called the Satan of the Sea in pulp fiction, many species of octopus are gentle, considerate lovers....

RED OCTOPUS(Photo: Mark Norman)Take A Dive On The...

Zoonomia

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs’d in oceans pearly cavesErasmus Darwin,...

Moon jellies are drifters, using jet propulsion to move. ...

A Rose By Any Other Name...Is A...

What’s This North American Caterpillar? At last an identification system that uses natural...

The Stinging Rose CatepillarOrder: Lepidoptera, Family:...

Jabberwocky

Beware the Jabberwocky, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird,...

Visit the Ecuadorian Moss Mantid at Bug Bios,...

Jaws

How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With...

The Black Devil Angler Fish, photo courtsey of Edith Widder...

The Platypus

I like the duck-billed platypus Because it is anomalous. I like the way it raises its family Partly...

A unique creature the platypus, native to Australia, endowed...

from To A Louse, by Robert Burns

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!

The Snout Beetle.  One of the winners of the Ugly Bug...

genus Hippocampus

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet. John F. Kennedy

Visit McGill University’s Project Seahorse  to learn...

The Riddle of the Snail

It hasn’t any windowsIt hasn’t any doorsAlthough it has a ceilingIt hasn’t any...

Giant African Snails can grow to a length of 1 foot, they...

Home Remedies for Jellyfish Stings

In 2006 while on a family vacation in Majorca, Michael Douglas suffered a jellyfish sting across his...

The Lion’s Mane Jellyfish is one of the largest...