The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Rhinoceros beetle Chapter 21: Unicorn page 307: Unicorn's horn was the Viagra of its day. Rhino horn is the "natural" ...

Thirtieth in a series of notes and comments on The Book of Barely Imagined Beings Chapter 21: “Unicorn ” – The Goblin shark page 306...

Henry Nicholls has written an efficient piece on sharks and marine food webs: ...In 2005, marine biologists...set out to the Line Isla...

In A Long, Melancholy Roar , Olivia Judson reflects on the role of predation by other animals on Man has had on the human psyche, observes t...

Discovery’s Shark Week Web site asks, “ What kind of shark are you? ” Many biologists would ask, “What kind of species are we?” -- Andy Rev...

Walking around it, staring at it staring at you, you felt an undeniable frisson of real physical danger...The shark was art, of course; but ...

A fuller explanation from MBARI. (Hat tip Deep Sea News ) Also in the news : it looks as if the elephant shark, which evolved about 450 mil...

Another day, another extinction event (or nearly so) over at IUCN: The release of the first ever IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ assess...

Damien Hirst sells The Kingdom for £9.6m. Peter Conrad thinks this is cool. Eat your art out, Piero Manzoni . (Meanwhile, a call for a cl...

Eleven oceanic shark species on the Red List -- IUCN . [But not as think as you dumb they are ( Smithsonian ).]