Giving a name to an organism is one of the most thrilling moments for any biologist. Not only it’s a perfect opportunity to show off their inventive and imaginative skills, but it’s also a way to reach immortality (to put it in a poetic way). The organism will carry this name at least until someone…
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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