Not to be confused with the plant genus of the same name. Photograph from Wikipedia Poor neglected Ranzania , how has it been over a month ...

In the first two posts I've mostly discussed Mola , a clade of three genetically distinct species whose morphological and biogeographi...

In the previous post I argued that molids were among the strangest of fishes on the basis of peculiarities such as their loss of a caudal f...

Of all the variations on the vertebrate "fish" body plan, molids are among the most bizarre. Yes, I'm well aware of how stran...

First off, thanks to Markus Bühler of Bestiarium for inspiring this post by sending me this: A juvenile basking shark 2.6 m in length from ...

Torgos - of no relation to Manos. Taken from here . Our anthropocentric stigma against scavengers is totally underserved and in fact, ca...

In the spirit of this recent post , I'll attempt to critically re-analyze an alleged "sea serpent' carcass reported from New Ha...