I was originally planning to use the title "Sperm Whales in Lake Erie?", but it just didn't work out quite right. It would sta...

On account of me not having used colored pencils in recent memory, I'm actually rather surprised at the quality of this. Well, the origi...

Sleeper sharks ( Somniosus spp.) belong to the family Somniosidae in the order Squaliformes, so they're relatives of dogfish (Squalidae...

Simply put, the stem-group synapsids are a fascinating group that has been incredibly overlooked by popular culture. We are synapsids, but i...

Female Fregata magnificens from the Wikipedia Commons . Frigatebirds are pretty high up there on animals I'd like to see some day. Two ...

© 2006 Shawn Mallan, used with permission. Also available here When I was using this as my desktop background, the various people overlookin...

Over two weeks without posting anything, what a shame. I by all means haven't stopped blogging, but for some reason I just decided to wr...