by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Timor-Leste coastline photo © Graham Crumb Timor as a reality-check for Australian biogeography Map showing the relative locations of Timor-Leste and Australia photo © Wikimedia Commons Proboscideans, land tortoises and fungus-growing termites, all of which repeatedly...
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Equus ferus caballus photo © Saffron Blaze Click-language punctuated by a chestnut? The chestnut varies in size and conspicuousness among zebras and wild asses; even within a single species, this dark patch is conspicuous in the extinct quagga and Burchell’s...
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Petrogale xanthopus photo © Adam Jenkins Evolutionary divergence between rock hyraxes and rock-wallabies Rock hyraxes and rock-wallabies are adapted to extremely similar environments but could hardly differ more in their modes of locomotion. Rock hyraxes run...
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Mola mola photo © OpenCage Fishtailing between the sublime and the ridiculous The ocean sunfish and the oarfish – which coexist and share the same types of food – have extremely different shapes. Of all bony fishes, the former is the most massive and the latter is...
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Taurotragus oryx photo © Lip Kee Yap Dual-purpose colouration of common eland Taurotragus oryx photo © Loco2014 Taurotragus oryx photo © Charles J. Sharp The northern subspecies of the common eland is perhaps the prime example of a mammal that uses the same pattern...
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Khoisan rock art Khoisan rock art shows the true eland Links to the images that inspired this bio-insight: http://rsr.akvo.org/ https://www.flickr.com/ http://l7.alamy.com/ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/ http://l7.alamy.com/ Rock-paintings of...
