stills from microecos, the movie

• 2017-10-19

  

• 2016-08-06

  muspeccoll:

  Thomas Moffett or Muffet was an English naturalist and physician. He edited the Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum (Theater of Insects), which was an encyclopedia of insects and their behavior based on previous scientific works. Moffett added commentary on the beauty and virtue of insects and the lessons they could teach humans. Moffet wrote

  Do you require Prudence? regard the Ant; Do you desire Justice? regard the Bee; Do you commend Temperance? take advice of them both. Do you praise Valour? See the whole generation of Grasshoppers.

  Moffett was particularly interested in spiders. In fact, the nursery rhyme “Little Miss Muffet” is said to have been written about an incident involving one of his children.

  Thomas Moffett (British, 1553-1604). Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum. London: T. Cotes, 1634. MU Ellis Special Collections Rare Folio QL463 .M93

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  Source: muspeccoll

• 2016-08-05

  

  John A. Comstock 1921 The Early Stages of Melitae neumoegeni 

• 2016-04-14

  

  #ThalattosaurThursday! Help fund our fossil hunting expedition campaign on Experiment.com so we can find more of these guys. This awesome model is on display at the Sierra College Museum of Natural History in Rocklin, CA. (at Sierra College Natural History Museum)

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• 2016-01-13

  

  I asked my intro geology students to sketch their home planet from memory. I’m pretty impressed!

• 2015-11-27

  

  Scenes from my new office pt.3 #fossilfriday #dudeforscale #mammoth #wardsscience

• 2015-11-10

  Buy a Phylopic Shirt!

  Phylopic.org is a fantastic website that provides free, reproducible silhouettes of living and extinct organisms for scientific figures, publications, posters, talks etc.

  
  

  

  You can help keep the site online by buying this awesome t-shirt:

  Funding drive ends today so go do it now!

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• 2015-09-11

  

  Desert arachnids pt. II scorpion under the rainfly. (at Berlin–Ichthyosaur State Park)

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  Desert arachnids pt. I solifugid in the caliper bag. (at Berlin–Ichthyosaur State Park)

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  I’m back from the #Triassic! #FossilFriday

• 2015-08-29

  

  Here’s where our wren sleeps. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• 2015-06-18

  

  Hey, they don’t call us #Euarchontaglires for nothing, am I right?

• 2015-06-04

  

  Proto #lolcat? in Anna Botsford Comstock’s Handbook of Nature Study, revised edition 1939.

• 2015-05-31

  

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• 2015-05-08

  

  It’s the world’s smallest flowering plant! (at Radnor Lake Natural Area and Wildlife Refuge)