When scientists create scientific names, they often unleash their creativity and honour people, locations or even gods. We go through the Greek God Pantheon and discover animals named after Greek Mythology, like the fish Zeus or the butterfly Hades.
Month: December 2015
Seaweed for sceptics (I): a rough origin for the red algae
Seaweeds are one of those things we might take for granted. Even many biologists would call this fleshy marine algae “dull” or “uninteresting” (we guess they’d be called seaweed sceptics?). One of the points of this blog is to show that life’s magnificence is to be found everywhere, if you are open to it….
Welcome
Welcome to On Elephants and Bacteria. Humble salutations from the Biosphere to the Blogosphere. What is this blog? What can you expect from it? This is a blog devoted to the diversity and quirkiness of the living realm. Not a regular biology site, here we aim to cover a wide spectrum of topics in…
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