Procoptodon goliah was the largest macropod to ever live. It's a member of Sthenurinae, a subfamily of kangaroos with only one living member, the banded hare-wallaby. In addition to being huge (500 pounds and roughly ten feet tall when standing upright), procoptodon was unusual among kangaroos for its squashed, wombat-like face, and the ability ( Read more... )

Basically, these little guys are ants fed lots of food by other ants so that they can serve as live larders for the colony. It...would suck a lot to step on them. *wince*


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Pardon me if this is boring, but I'm fascinated. Paraphrased from Wikipedia ( Read more... )

This post was inspired by the bleeding heart one. During the summers I spent at my grandparents' I used to go out searching for these guys along the riverbanks and streams with my Gram to plant in her flower gardens. Unfortunately, they are an endangered species and anytime anyone brought it up she'd say "I'm Indian, I can get away with it!" lulz ( Read more... )

See this?


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Those zonkey posts reminded me of something way cooler.


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The other day I recalled seeing a drawing of a bilaterally gynandromorphic grosbeak in my ornithology text, and it looks like no one has posted about it, so ( Read more... )

I’ve been mostly lurking for a long time, but I’d like to take the opportunity to post about one of my favorite creatures ever: the diatom.


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The Common Coquí or Coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui) is a frog native to Puerto Rico belonging to the Eleutherodactylus genus of the Leptodactylidae family. The species is named for the loud sound (sometimes reaching as high as 100 dB at a distance of 0.5 m) the males make at night. This sound serves two purposes. 'CO' serves to repel males and ( Read more... )

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