Today’s Extinct (Plant): Acalypha Dikuluwensis
Image from Copperflora.org. When I decided to reembark on this series of posts about extinct species, I did a check through my copious bookmarks to see if anything jumped out…
Image from Copperflora.org. When I decided to reembark on this series of posts about extinct species, I did a check through my copious bookmarks to see if anything jumped out…
Islands: they’re good places to show up at if you are looking to evolutionarily diverge. If your species manages to arrive at an island with no native predators on it,…
Here’s a list of ten of my favorite quotes pertaining to the state of the world that I’ve gleaned in the past several years: A: “We don’t change our behavior,…
Alas, time’s up for the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat. The tiny winged mammals, endemic to Australia’s Christmas island, are overrun by human-introduced yellow crazy ants, giant centipedes and wolf snakes….
That’s all, folks! The last Jaguar in the United States has been killed. The beast in question, a sixteen year old male named “Macho B”, was euthanized by state biologists…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any depressing stories about doomed animal life on this blog. Now that I’ve actually gone through with the whole moving-to-portland, thing, maybe I’ll…
I’ve decided that this blog thing might be useful for regular, depressing updates on the subject that I think about most, namely, extinction. To start off with, I think I’ll…