Next to the newly discovered Vampire Flying Frog most creatures pale in comparison. Enter the Goblin Shark. I probably don’t need to say much more once you watch this video except that I can’t believe it took me this long to learn about this beautiful and eerie demon of the deep. It joins the ranks […]
Discovered in 2010 in the jungles of Vietnam, Rhacophorus vampyrus or Vampire Flying Frog has arrived this summer to the Australian Museum. A small set of fangs and ability to fly earned this creepy hopper its unique name. Check out the museums fact sheet here for all the gory details! Up next: Goblin Sharks… http://australianmuseum.net.au/Vampire-Flying-Frog
It occurred to me that I hadn’t put the link to buy my book! You can, of course, order it anywhere books are sold, and notify me if you can’t find it. Here is the link to the publisher’s website: http://redwheelweiser.com/detail.html?id=9781578634644
You fair Southerners know the bane that is the fire ant, and no where is the problem more predominant than deep in the heart of the great state of Texas. But now the fire ant is facing a predator of its own. Researchers at Texas A&M University have introduced a tiny phorid fly, originally native
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Recently I had the privilege of staying overnight at Preston Castle, an old boy’s reform school in Ione, California. It looms above the sleepy little gold rush town, peering down upon the vineyards and scraggly pines with half-shuttered window-eyes and a toothless brick grin. When we arrived the moon was on the rise, nearly full
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Marrying a rock. Or your pillow, like that guy in South Korea. Tomorrow I am attending a wedding and I can’t help but have bridal bizarre on my mind. And wedding day tragedies. I mean, sorry to be a bummer on the eve of your beachy wedding, but did you hear the story of the
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Today on my way to work I passed a fruit stand teeming with beautiful bananas, and it got me to thinking about this silly story from my latest book, Beyond Bizarre. When, in 1967, the small newspaper the Berkeley Barb published a satirical story claiming that smoking banana peels can get you high, nobody thought
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Forget-me-nots, the small blue flowers at the side of the road, are so called because a young man who was picking them for his lover tumbled into a river and drowned. His parting cry to his love? “Forget me not!” The common red poppy is known as Blind Man because it was believed that you
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Even broken down into its simplest parts, blood is a pretty complex substance. Vampires drink it, humanitarians donate it, and just the thought of it makes queasy people faint. It makes up 7% of our body weight, and it’s the stuff that keeps us living. So it’s not surprising that the sticky substance is the
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