NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Friday/Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN - 68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Whales reached huge size only recently

Traumatic beetle sex causes rapid evolutionary arm...

Bioelectric tweak makes flatworms grow a head inst...

An 'evolutionary gamble' may be killing Joshua Tre...

Snakes, thought to be solitary eaters, coordinate ...

Study shows why you shouldn’t declaw your cats

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.)