I love finding stuff like this. The above little critter is as it says a Hispaniolan Solenodon, a venomous mammal that was around at the same time as the dinosaurs. Rediscovered in the Dominican Republican last year, having being presumed extinct.
If you like what you see above, click here to watch the initial report I came across on the BBC.
A great story about a rare, presumed extinct wildflower in, rematerialising after 23 years, in woodland in Herefordshire, England.
You can read the whole story here.
Laying on my back recovering from a tumble off my bike this morning is giving me some time to find some good, some useful, and in this case simply stunning things to post.
Inside the Cueva de los Cristales it is 50C and has a humidity of 100%. Less than a hundred people have ever been inside and it’s so deadly that even with respirators and suits of ice you can only survive for 20 minutes before your body starts to fail. It’s the nearest thing to visiting another planet – it’s going deep inside our own.
The above shots are from an episode of How Earth Made Us on the BBC. I will be looking out of said programme, you can read more about this amazing ‘core of the earth’ place here.
I had the pleasure of coming across this stunning set of pictures by English wildlife photographer Duncan Murrell.
Beautiful.
via theguardian.
A great slideshow on the bbc website, showcasing a collection of natural oddities photographed by entomologist professor George McGavin whilst in Papua New Guinea filming the BBC programme Lost Land of the Volcano.
Above from the top are a male jumping spider and two male rhinoceros beetles.
Made me laugh. Apparently in 1960, Dr. Peter Witt gave various drugs to spiders and observed their effects on web bulding. This film about the experiment was created by First Church of Christ, Filmmaker.
Liking these from Mark Weavers flickr site.
Or maybe Zebass?
Watch this to see what happens if you pour 10 tons of cement into an ant colony. Ant architecture featuring a subterranean structure of 8 meters / 26 feet deep. ‘Ant-City’ was built including circulating ventilation shafts and fungi gardens interconnected through pipelines.
Last night I watched episode 1 from disc one of the above fantastic dvd encyclopedia, from the brilliant BBC and (wish he was my grandfather) David Attenborough. I can now look forward to another 35+ hours of visually stunning photography. Episode one began as life on land began, with the first inhabitors of the planet, using macro cameras, I was submerged into the universe of all the bugs and insects that we step on everyday. Truly stunning and very highly recommended if you like your wildlife. I have been googling high and low to try and find some of the amazing photography from episode one, but alas…
Below is a brief sypnosis:
Twenty years ago, David Attenborough started making a series of programmes about the different groups of living organisms that inhabit the lands of our planet – birds and mammals, plants and insects, amphibians and reptiles. He looked at the history of each one from its first appearance and surveyed the multitude of different forms into which it now involved. These landmark series now form David Attenborough’s 15 disc Life on Land DVD Encyclopaedia and are brought to you here in the order in which these various groups arrived during the history of life.
All the series in this Life on Land DVD Encyclopaedia have been indexed to provide rapid reference to each species mentioned and to behavioural categories such as mimicry, camouflage or conflict. The index can be accessed on screen through the menu on each of the discs, alternatively a precise reference can be found in the hard-backed book which accompanies the collection.
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