I went back to the American Museum of Natural History after about 8 years. I plan on going back as frequently as I can (it’s free with my student ID!) This might have been the best thing I saw and learned on my last trip. Even ichthyologists cannot always identify a fish species just by looking a…
What a strange, strange creature. Those bumps remind me of rivets on a submarine. But because they are anglerfish, the bumps are even more bizarre than you’d expect: Since anglerfish are deep sea creatures, it took scientists years and years to figure this stuff out. They could never find a m…
Wikipedia calls it “decompression damage”. The Smithsonian Magazine has more.…
I could just stare at his work all day. This one’s called “The River of Life” and this one “Deep Forest”…