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Discovery: Top 10 newly discovered species

• Sneezing Monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri)
• Bonaire Banded Box Jelly (Tamoya ohboya)
• Devil’s Worm (Halicephalobus mephisto)
• Night-Blooming Orchid (Bulbophyllum nocturnum)
• Unnamed parasitic wasp (Kollasmosoma sentum)
• Spongebob Squarepants Mushroom (Spongiforma squarepantsii, no I’m not kidding)
• Unnamed poppy (Meconopsis autumnalis)
• Wandering Leg Sausage (Crurifarcimen vagans)
• Walking Cactus (extinct, fossil discovered) (Diania cactiformis)
• Sazima’s Tarantula (Pterinopelma sazimai)

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Roloway Monkey (Cercopithecus roloway)

Critically endangered.

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Televisa debe arder.

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The Descent of Man: A Portrait of Charles Darwin by Teagan White

Even insects play together, as has been described by the excellent observer, P. Huber, who saw ants chasing and pretending to bite each other, like so many puppies.

— Darwin, The Descent of Man

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Oldest Mayan Astronomical Calendar Discovered

The oldest-known version of the ancient Maya calendar has been discovered adorning a lavishly painted wall in the ruins of a city deep in the Guatemalan rainforest.

The hieroglyphs, painted in black and red, along with a colorful mural of a king and his mysterious attendants, seem to have been a sort of handy reference chart for court scribes in A.D. 800 — the astronomers and mathematicians of their day. Contrary to popular myth, this calendar isn’t a countdown to the end of the world in December 2012, the study researchers said.

“The Mayan calendar is going to keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future,” said archaeologist David Stuart of the University of Texas, who worked to decipher the glyphs. “Numbers we can’t even wrap our heads around.”

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“Body Language” - Intaglio Etching - 2011

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Visualising extinctions over the past million 531 years.  The size of the circle shows how the biodiversity of the earth differs from the long-term trend.  The resulting fluctuations seem to repeat every 62 million years or so, with 5 main extinction events in total.  The most recent was of course the end of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.  Does this mean the Earth is due another?! [This follows the analysis of an interesting nature article]  [more] [code]

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