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Saturday, June 11, 2011
HAUNTED SKIES: The International Sky Scouts (1967)
http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/05/1967-international-sky-scouts.html
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Yesterday's News Today
Oliver is away at the LAPIS Conference, at which he will be videoing bits and bobs for CFZtv as well as speaking himself. He has left some bits and bobs for us, and today's reads:
On this day in 1819 the author Charles Kingsley was born. Kingsley lived in just down the road from the CFZ, in Clovelly, for a few years during his childhood and ever since the North Devon tourist industry has seen him as one of their sacred cows along with seafaring also-ran Lord Grenville and Tarka the Otter (the animal from which 9 out of 10 Barnstaple locations and businesses derive their name).
English names wanted for 10 species
Downing Street cat makes first kill
Forecasting Turtles- Climate appears to play key role in determining sea turtle numbers
Nesting turtles give clues on oil spill's impact
On this day in 1819 the author Charles Kingsley was born. Kingsley lived in just down the road from the CFZ, in Clovelly, for a few years during his childhood and ever since the North Devon tourist industry has seen him as one of their sacred cows along with seafaring also-ran Lord Grenville and Tarka the Otter (the animal from which 9 out of 10 Barnstaple locations and businesses derive their name).
English names wanted for 10 species
Downing Street cat makes first kill
Forecasting Turtles- Climate appears to play key role in determining sea turtle numbers
Nesting turtles give clues on oil spill's impact
Friday, June 10, 2011
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...":
Capturing Cryptids
Crypto Controversy!
From Crypto Squad USA:
Cryptids, Tulpas & Cryptomundo
From CFZ Australia:
Banjo update: elderly koala doing well
Another 'big' cat shot - but what kind?
New from CFZ Press: water monsters galore!
Yowie Port anyone?
Capturing Cryptids
Crypto Controversy!
From Crypto Squad USA:
Cryptids, Tulpas & Cryptomundo
From CFZ Australia:
Banjo update: elderly koala doing well
Another 'big' cat shot - but what kind?
New from CFZ Press: water monsters galore!
Yowie Port anyone?
NAOMI WEST AND HER MYSTERY INSECT
Naomi writes: 'I don't think I've ever seen this bug before. Isn't it pretty?' It certainly is, we agree, but what is it?
DALE DRINNON: Sea Wolves and Sea Apes
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/06/sea-wolves-and-sea-apes.html
And congratulations are in order. Dale has now notched up 100 postings on his blog. Well done, matey!
And congratulations are in order. Dale has now notched up 100 postings on his blog. Well done, matey!
LINDSAY SELBY: Deepest-living land animal found
Deepest-living land animal found
By Jennifer Carpenter Science reporter, BBC News
Worms have been found living at depths in the Earth where it was previously thought animals could not survive.Discovered in South African mines, the roundworms can survive in the stifling 48C (118F) water that seeps between cracks 1.3km beneath the Earth's crust.The find has surprised scientists who, until now, believed only single-celled bacteria thrived at these depths.Writing in the journal Nature, the team says this is the deepest-living "multi-cellular" organism known to science.The researchers found two species of worm. One is a new species to science, which the scientists have named Halicephalobus mephisto after Faust's Lord of the Underworld.The other is a previously known roundworm known as Plectus aquatilis.
Ends: Dr Borgonie believes that worms already have some of the "attributes necessary" to survive at these great depths. So it wasn't a surprise to him that the first multicellular organism to be found in the deep subsurface of the Earth was a worm. The authors of the study expect to find other multicellular animals far beneath our planet's surface, and are preparing to descend again to search for others.
Read full article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13620701
Finds like this set me off thinking I wonder what else is surviving where it shouldn’t be ? Always exciting when new species are discovered.
By Jennifer Carpenter Science reporter, BBC News
Worms have been found living at depths in the Earth where it was previously thought animals could not survive.Discovered in South African mines, the roundworms can survive in the stifling 48C (118F) water that seeps between cracks 1.3km beneath the Earth's crust.The find has surprised scientists who, until now, believed only single-celled bacteria thrived at these depths.Writing in the journal Nature, the team says this is the deepest-living "multi-cellular" organism known to science.The researchers found two species of worm. One is a new species to science, which the scientists have named Halicephalobus mephisto after Faust's Lord of the Underworld.The other is a previously known roundworm known as Plectus aquatilis.
Ends: Dr Borgonie believes that worms already have some of the "attributes necessary" to survive at these great depths. So it wasn't a surprise to him that the first multicellular organism to be found in the deep subsurface of the Earth was a worm. The authors of the study expect to find other multicellular animals far beneath our planet's surface, and are preparing to descend again to search for others.
Read full article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13620701
Finds like this set me off thinking I wonder what else is surviving where it shouldn’t be ? Always exciting when new species are discovered.
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