The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in animals on May 8th, 2008
Platypus, one of my very favorite animals has had its genome decoded.
And to no great surprise to anyone, the results are not exactly those of a typical mammal. After all, not many of our family tree members possess poisonous spurs or lay eggs.
Still haven’t seen a live platypus, the ones […]
Two entries from wikipedia took me back to the early eighties earlier this week.
One of the very first (if not even the first) Lucky Luke albums I ever owned was The Rivals of Painful Gulch. The story concerned itself with two families on the warpath due to alleged slights committed way lower […]
Posted in animals on Feb 27th, 2008
As frogs go, there’s nothing bigger than the newly discovered fossil Beelzebufo, the devil frog.
The attached image is just an imaginative artistic rendition of the critter, but its mere size means that this was one effective predator back in the day.