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wombat
a three year old female wombat (they can get up to 20 years old). Best wombat-fact: their poo is cube-shaped.
Vombatus ursinus (hey, they are named after bears! :-)
wombat
stromatolite
my first certified fossil. banded tiger iron stromatolite from Ord Ranges, Pilbara, Western Australia. approx. 1.9 billion years old.stromatolite
galileo
Galileo Galilei, sidereus nuncius, 1610
Oculata certitudine - visual certainty.
Galileo saw the stars of the Pleiades, the seven sisters. a renaissance attitude of seeing instead of discussing or blind faith in the church.
galileo
napoleon
"a figurative map of the successive losses in men of the French army in the Russian campaign 1812-1813"
the map has six variables:
size of army (men live/dead)
location, latlong
direction
temperature
dates
..what is missing, though, is causation...
Napoleon started out with almost half a million soldiers, and returned with 10.000
napoleon
the table of casualties
the table of casualties - John Graunt 1662
(some bizarre reasons for deaths here)
the table of casualties
body mass, brain mass
from a scatterplot to "let the species speak for themselves". But what IS the thing with that elephant...- and why is there a centauri in the plot...?body mass, brain mass
fish
Markus-Elierzer Bloch, Ichthyologie ou Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Poissonsfish
space debris
a map of all the debris and rubbish that orbits the earth. there is a toothbrush there somewhere.space debris
crayola history
crayola genealogy. they experimented with a taxonomy/family tree, and several representation, see examples herecrayola history
drosophila
Too good: this image represents the total view of modern biology (ca. 1989) including a model organism (Drosophila), cells (the photoreceptor), molecules (visual pigments; and the membrane protein rhodopsin in its native environment) and recombinant DNA technology (the expression vector). It was painted by Ruben Di Anda, a San Diego artist, based on a design by David Meyer.drosophila
reptiles
reptiles, mammal-like reptiles, mammals, birds. of the better visuals i have seen on this.reptiles
genetics
genetic relationships within the human race today
http://www.andaman.org/Background/Background.htm
genetics
human evolution
human evolution - taking into account some uncertainties. http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/evol.html#charthuman evolution
Phylogeography
Phylogeography, poisonous frogs.
A phylogeographic image of poison frogs lineages from South America. Maps on the left show the main biogeographic regions as they change through time and the image to the right shows the frog lineages in context of their biogeographic origins.
By Santos JC, Coloma LA, Summers K, Caldwell JP, Ree R, et al. [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons
