Category: Animals – From Crocodiles to Bees

I write this on my way to Tasmania to look for two of my favorite groups of invertebrates, velvet worms (Onychophora) and harvestmen or daddy longlegs (Arachnida, Opiliones).

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The Antilles and treasures… the Antilles and treasures….these are perhaps the most frequent associations everyone makes with the group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, whether due to the genius of Robert Louis Stevenson or the charisma of Jack Sparrow…

While on the run, Indiana Jones once said “If you want to be a good archaeologist, you have to get out of the library.”

Beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula have historically interacted with two species of bees for extracting honey and beeswax.

I discovered the existence of the pink fairy armadillo in a childhood visit to London’s Natural History Museum, Gazing into a cabinet filled with long-dead, moth-eaten taxidermy specimens, I wondered at a tiny gnomic creature perched on a shelf towards the back of the exhibit.