NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Friday/Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN - 31 B.C. - The Roman leader Octavian defeated the alliance of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Octavian, as Augustus Caesar, became the first Roman emperor. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Sluggy McSlugface no more: sea slug named for fly-...

Storms devastate monarch butterflies' forest habit...

Fisherman hands in giant pearl he kept under the b...

Cuttlefish found to have number sense and state-de...

What conservation isn’t: Eating endangered lemurs ...

One of the World's Oldest Tigers Has Died

Humans caught the common cold from camels, scienti...

Beetles pollinated orchids millions of year ago, f...

Novel molecular clues behind nocturnal behavior

AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)