Category Archives: preternatural

Because The Night

Posted on 6 May 2014 by Henry Gee

Kids are wonderful. Also generous. When they were small and running with stenchly ichors from various orifices, they donated a wide variety of microscopic organisms for the amusement of my immune system. That was then. Now, though.

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Careful With That Amphioxus, Eugene

Posted on 7 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Spare a thought for the amphioxus, a humble marine creature which spends its adult life buried in sand, filtering particles of food from seawater using its beautiful and elaborate system of gill slits. On the left is a picture of … Continue reading →

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Rumours

Posted on 1 April 2011 by Henry Gee

Probably the most exciting paper I’ve ever handled at Your Favourite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N was this one – on Homo floresiensis, a diminutive and very peculiar hominin from the island of Flores in Indonesia. The creature … Continue reading →

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