Entrance cowl of Secret Snakes and Serpent Surprises, depicting the crowing crested cobra as primarily based upon eyewitness descriptions (© Dr Karl Shuker/Coachwhip Publications) My newest thematic cryptozoology guide…
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Herbert M. Evans. The story of a biographical memoir and the artwork of implication
Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971) was an enormous man, actually and metaphorically, in American organic analysis. His biographers wrote of him: He was excited by all the pieces which was occurring…
MAPPING OUT THE NANDI BEAR
Shut-up of the Nandi bear depiction on John McKenzie’s 1961 map East Africa (© John McKenzie – reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Honest Use foundation for instructional/evaluation…
Analysis internship – Carla García Carrancio
On summer time 2021 I had the chance to conduct a analysis go to on the College Museum of Bergen beneath mission NorHydro. Concretely, I used to be working with…
Who was the photographer of British Amphibians and Reptiles, Walter S. Pitt?…continued
Walter S. Pitt’s images have been used as an example Malcolm Smith’s seminal e book, The British Amphibians and Reptiles revealed by Collins within the New Naturalist sequence in 1951.…
LET’S ALL DO THE KUNGA!
Element from ‘Conflict’ panel of Commonplace of Ur mosaic, c2600 BCE, depicting kungas pulling 4-wheeled battle-wagon (© Zunkir/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 4.0) It is at all times good to…
2021 in evaluation for Hardbunnsfauna
One other 12 months of our “Hardbunnsfauna”-project; Invertebrate fauna of marine rocky shallow-water habitats: species mapping and DNA barcoding (funded by the Norwegian taxonomy Initiative) is coming to an finish.…
Enthusiasm isn’t sufficient. Who stated that about analysis?
I by no means met Sir John Gaddum. He died in 1965, shortly after ill-health compelled his retirement, three years earlier than my arrival on the Institute of Animal Physiology…
THE PICHU-CUATE – IS A TINY BUT TERRIFYING CRYPTO-SNAKE RESEMBLING KIPLING’S KARAIT ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN AMERICA?
Two images of Charles Fletcher Lummis – a pichu-cuate eyewitness who lived to inform the story, actually, documenting this sinister serpent in his guide The King of the Broncos…
Throwback Thursday; HYPCOP workshop on the museum
The challenge of finding out hyperbenthic copepods (HYPCOP) is exclusive in a number of methods; we research a really unknown group of marine copepod species with little or no taxonomic…