by BioEdge | May 4, 2013 | Site Content
THE LION IN A NEW SPOTLIGHT LATERAL THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF EVER MORE INTERESTING STORIES FROM BIOLOGY. Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to re-charge biology with originality for you, the non-specialist reader. Here we illuminate that classic killer-lady of the...
by BioEdge | May 4, 2013 | Site Content
LOBULATED EARS: NATURAL SELECTION GONE BIONIC? The human ear lobe may be Nature’s first body part which has evolved only to be custom-tooled. LATERAL THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF EVER MORE INTERESTING STORIES FROM BIOLOGY. Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to re-charge...
by BioEdge | May 4, 2013 | Site Content
THE HYPERTAIL AND THE INFRATAIL: AXES FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS Nature’s geometrical caricatures point out our everyday blindness to where the tails of fishes really begin and end. LATERAL THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF EVER MORE INTERESTING STORIES FROM BIOLOGY....
by BioEdge | May 4, 2013 | Site Content
NEW PELVIC THRUSTS IN A FISHY WORLD? What it looks like when the hips are swapped for pecs, hindfins become forefins, and vents really become ventral. LATERAL THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF EVER MORE INTERESTING STORIES FROM BIOLOGY. Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to...
by BioEdge | May 4, 2013 | Site Content
WEEDS THAT SWIM FOR FISHES THAT DON’T By daring to swim, sargassum forms a triad with two opposite fishes that both dare to unswim. LATERAL THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF EVER MORE INTERESTING STORIES FROM BIOLOGY. Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to recharge...
by BioEdge | May 4, 2013 | Site Content
ODOURS AND ATTITUDE: A COMPARISON OF HOW TWO TOUGHS GET GOING The honey badger embodies the drama of big game country, whereas the wolverine is a concentrate of Siberian emptiness. LATERAL THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF EVER MORE INTERESTING STORIES FROM BIOLOGY. Robin and the...