We found this little guy on the Explore The Wild path at the NC Museum of Life and Science. Normally, you don’t see them on the path (and usually only early in the morning), but after a heavy rain, he apparently decided it was time for a walk.
Stay Curious out there! You never know what you will see when you look around!
We all love a good science fiction creature. Well, here’s one that really exists! The amazing bathynomus is an isopod that begs for stories to be written about it! I saw this specimen with Chris Mah at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Learn more at Chris’s amazing blog: The Echinoblog. You can also read about this creature from Kevin Zelnio’s article, which is like “Bathynomus 101” – a great way to learn about these interesting deep sea creatures!
So amazing. I just love this. Learn more about electric eels and see some beautiful photos, here.
HT: @edyong209 via Twitter and Tracy Staedter at Discovery.com here.
I never get tired of watching these animations of cellular processes. I’ve linked to an earlier animation several years ago (music version; narrated version), and as amazing as that was, it just keeps getting better.
To see a really nice quality of this animation, go here.