Check out one of MNN’s most popular stories of 2011: Spiders in Pakistan encase whole trees in webs
Eerie phenomenon may be a blessing in disguise, as the hungry spiders have significantly reduced the mosquito population.
MNN’s top stories of 2011
Scorpion exoskeleton may be one giant glowing eye
Scorpion bodies are studded with eyes, sometimes as many as twelve — and scientists may have found one more.
A scorpion’s entire exoskeleton may act as one giant light receptor, a full-body proto-eye that detects shadows cast by moonlight and starlight.
That’s still just a hypothesis, but it would help explain why they glow so brilliantly under ultraviolet light.
“It might be a sort of alarm that’s always going off until the scorpion finds shelter,” said biologist Douglas Gaffin of the University of Oklahoma. “Shade might turn down the alarm on that part of their body, so they preferentially move in that direction.”
Here is a collection of funny, interesting and witty images I have collected over the past few years. Enjoy.
This is pretty damn cool!
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Bizarre sea slug is half plant, half animal
Scientists discover chlorophyll-producing sea slug that can carry out photosynthesis using genes swiped from plants.
My First Post On My First Blog
Yeah, so this is a blog. So, not sure of the point of blogs or what I’m supposed to put in here. I’ve read it’s like having a diary…so basically rather than actually talking to yourself or writing to yourself…you’re virtually talking to yourself. Wonderful! Yeah, so…if I discover what this whole blogging thing is about, I’ll give it a go… here is a picture of a festive hamster
