by Matthew Cobb
https://twitter.com/DukeOfZamunda/status/843484642204442624
In fact, it’s a Brahma Chicken, but it’s still pretty scary!
Feathers aren’t scary, Mr Spielberg?
March 19, 2017 • 4:20 pm
Category: wonders of the world
An inordinate fondness for nematodes
October 22, 2016 • 3:10 pm
by Matthew Cobb
I have no idea if this true, or how you could be confident it was (or wasn’t) correct, but it could easily be right. Jack is Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology at University College London.
Four out of every five individual animals on Earth today is a nematode worm.
There are a lot of nematode worms.[Pic by @CSIROnews] pic.twitter.com/kctr5LH53r
— Jack Ashby (@JackDAshby) October 22, 2016
Angel Falls
May 31, 2016 • 3:30 pm
I doubt that I’ll ever make it to Venzuela to see Angel Falls, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world—3212 feet, or 979 meters: 6 times the height of the Washington Monument. But this video, from the BBC’s Planet Earth, is a decent substitute:
And here’s a longer video, well worth watching. It also shows the plane from which Jimmie Angel first saw the spectacle in 1933. Trying to land on the plateau in 1937, he crashed the plane, but it was recovered by helicopter in 1970 and now sits by the airport in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela.