ODDS AND SODS FROM CHAD ARMENT

The loudest animal (for its size) recorded:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/sfeb-tla062811.php

Weevils have screw thread joints, rather than hinges or ball-and-sockets:
http://www.kit.edu/visit/pi_2011_7536.php

First documented attack on a live human by a cookiecutter shark:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/uof-nsd070111.php

THE NATIONAL TRUST'S LARGE BLUE BLOG

http://ntlargeblue.wordpress.com/
I only discovered this yesterday, but it is well worth a read....