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January 11th, 2012 | Category: miscellaneousFamily holiday time this week (from the 9th to the 16th of January) up in sunny/windy/rainy Merimbula, a coastal town in New South Wales, less than 100km from the Victorian border. It took us about eight hours to drive here from Melbourne – a couple more and we could have reached Canberra, and a few more after that and we’d be in Sydney. But capital cities are far too busy and noisy for my holiday tastes, so quiet coastal town it is.
The Merimbula back beach. Note [...]
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January 27th, 2010 | Category: biologyThis is a post in a series designed to keep my readers happy while I swan around New Zealand for two weeks. The theme is extinct New Zealand animals, of which there are a lot of. Note – I take full responsibility for the terrible puns that make up each post title.
This post will be mysterious… as it will reveal that New Zealand make not have been as mammal-less as previously thought. Of course, mammals exist in the present day on New Zealand in the form of domestic animals (cats, [...]
» Continue reading “It’s Only A Nontherian!”
January 25th, 2010 | Category: biologyThis is a post in a series designed to keep my readers happy while I swan around New Zealand for two weeks. The theme is extinct New Zealand animals, of which there are a lot of. Note – I take full responsibility for the terrible puns that make up each post title.
What? Another flightless bird? Colour me surprised. But unlike the Kakapo, which isn’t actually extinct, the Adzebill is. Really two species, the North Island Adzebill and the South Island Adzebill, the Adzebill is part of the extinct [...]
» Continue reading “Waiter, Can We Have The Adzebill?”
January 23rd, 2010 | Category: biologyThis is a post in a series designed to keep my readers happy while I swan around New Zealand for two weeks. The theme is extinct New Zealand animals, of which there are a lot of. Note – I take full responsibility for the terrible puns that make up each post title.
Okay, today’s animal isn’t extinct, I lied. But it’s nearly extinct! That counts, right? The Kakapo, Strigops habroptila (also called the owl parrot), is another species of flightless bird native to New Zealand, and it’s critically endangered. [...]
» Continue reading “Kakapo’wned!”
January 21st, 2010 | Category: biologyThis is a post in a series designed to keep my readers happy while I swan around New Zealand for two weeks. The theme is extinct New Zealand animals, of which there are a lot of. Note – I take full responsibility for the terrible puns that make up each post title.
You thought this was going to be about a giant bird, didn’t you? Wrong, it’s about a giant shark! Carcharodon angustidens was a species of megatooth shark that lived during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs, 35 to [...]
» Continue reading “That’s Quite Enough Teenage Angust(idens)”
January 19th, 2010 | Category: biologyThis is a post in a series designed to keep my readers happy while I swan around New Zealand for two weeks. The theme is extinct New Zealand animals, of which there are a lot of. Note – I take full responsibility for the terrible puns that make up each post title.
Just a short post today, this time about Pachydyptes ponderosus, the New Zealand Giant Penguin (spotting a large-bird trend?). Reaching up to 160 cm tall, it was the second-tallest penguin to ever live, beaten only by another [...]
» Continue reading “It’s All Getting Slightly Ponderosus”
January 17th, 2010 | Category: biologyThis is a post in a series designed to keep my readers happy while I swan around New Zealand for two weeks. The theme is extinct New Zealand animals, of which there are a lot of. Note – I take full responsibility for the terrible puns that make up each post title.
Next up – Haast’s Eagle. Named after Julius von Haast, who classified it as Harpagornis moorei in the 1870s, it’s also known as… the Giant Eagle. Usually, as we saw in the last post with the Giant Moa, [...]
» Continue reading “Their Haast’s Just Not In It”
January 15th, 2010 | Category: biologyThis is a post in a series designed to keep my readers happy while I swan around New Zealand for two weeks. The theme is extinct New Zealand animals, of which there are a lot of. Note – I take full responsibility for the terrible puns that make up each post title.
So – the moa. Technically, they weren’t a single species of animal, or even a single genera. The moa were six genera, ten species in total, of flightless birds who lived in New Zealand until approximately 1500 [...]
» Continue reading “Tell Me Moa, Tell Me Moa”
January 13th, 2010 | Category: announcementHey everyone. I’m going on a holiday/vacation from the 15th to the 27th of January in New Zealand with my family (which, shamefully, is the first time I’ve been overseas and outside of Australia), and I won’t have easy access to the Internet. This means no blogging during the period when I’m away… or does it?
I’m pre-writing posts to be automatically published at certain times along my trip. No, I’m not going to do the whole “… and today I’ll be going to Museum X and I’ll be pushed [...]
» Continue reading “A holiday in New Zealand? That can’t stop the power of blogging!”
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Homologous Legs is the blog of Jack Scanlan, an Australian biology student who has a serious problem with creationists, intelligent design proponents and anyone else who misrepresents evolutionary biology or science in general.
He uses this blog to post news about the intelligent design/evolution "war", science communication in biology and chemistry, and mostly coherent thoughts from his scattered, music-loving brain. Contact
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