NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1489 - Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, sold her kingdom to Venice. She was the last of the Lusignan dynasty. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Playing both ends: Amphibian adapted to varied evo...

Domestic goat dating back to the Neolithic Corded ...

Kansas DWPT to conduct five-year review of imperil...

First video of 'dumbo' octopod hatchling shows tha...

Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction casca...

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)