Nothing makes you feel good quite like a snazzy outfit. Katie Bradley's four tortoises are the best dressed in town, thanks to ...

Hi Jon, A friend forwarded this article to me and I think bloggo readers will enjoy it.  The Bizarre History of Insect Head Transpla...

Florida fishermen tell of a legendary giant hammerhead shark called Old Hitler. "He's bigger and badder than Jaws. Got a head as wi...

Hi Jon and Merry Christmas to everyone there at the CFZ. I'm pretty sure it's a leaf-footed bug - one of the true bugs - but without...

Dear Jon, I came across this remarkable, vaguely Lovecraftean representation of Scylla, as in 'Scylla and Charybdis', by the British...

Dear Jon, This is on the internet under the title 'Alien Critter and Transformer Dragonfly, 23 Sept 2011, Greenford UK'. I'm no ...

Hi Jon, This is a page from the Bodleian Library's Tudor Pattern Book (c. 1520-1530), which has paintings that were used by illuminator...

Dear Jon, Came across this video and thought bloggo readers would enjoy it. 'The four and a half minute compliation [sic] of every Ra...

Visayan Warty Pig or the Fifth Beatle? Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

Happy Birthday to one of our favourite bloggers, and also Prudence's biggest fan...

Many thanks to Dondi Ratliff and Robert Schneck for identifying Naomi's mystery insect . Robert Schneck added this mildly distasteful co...

Let's get right to the point: that's a seed beetle's penis. Yes, it is. And those spikes are not decorative. They 'help the...

It seems the well of strange octopus stories will never run dry. Am I the only one who didn't know that: "every so often an octopus...

Japan is a remarkable place. Despite earthquakes, tsunamis and reactor meltdowns they still manage to produce surreally cute devices that ar...

Is this poster saying that no matter how clean and attractive the brontosaurus looks, she might have venereal disease? Is something Freudian...

'Writers and Kitties' is an emetic title for this otherwise wonderful online collection of photographs showing cats with writers. Th...

Yesterday we posted an insect for you to identify. Robert Schneck writes: It looks a lot like the hoverfly, Helophilus pendulus . http://www...

While rifling through my new favourite blog, 'Ugly Overload' I came across a picture of a two-toed sloth emerging from an outhouse...

I think people like Sister Michael Marie are the reason God doesn't slap Earth into the Sun and start over. "Sister Michael Marie, ...

Anyone that loves pop-horror loves Tales from the Crypt (this is not up for discussion), and everyone that loves Tales from the Crypt love...