Hemerobius

Ephemeral thoughts and fleeting ideas.

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Welcome to Hemerobius! Here will be a short daily post about something that catches my interest. Hopefully you will find some of these musings of interest as well.

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Savagery Among the Seagrass

Mosquitoes are annoying and ticks are unpleasant, but no group of freeloaders are so horrifyingly ingenious as the parasitic Crustacea.

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Orthogenesis Refuted

We like to think that evolution is a march towards splendid sophistication. But one group of organisms among all others shatters this worldview to pieces.

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Our Spineless Cousins

A look into one of the most fascinating groups of marine animals out there, as well as some not-so-flattering implications for our own past.

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Bless the Maker and His… Clams??

Worm-riders are apparently not restricted to the realm of fiction… but they look a little different than what you might imagine.

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What is a Dinosaur, Really?

This is not a dinosaur. But why? What really makes something a dinosaur?

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The Myth of Prehistoric Oxygen

Did high oxygen levels supersize the animals of the distant past? Probably not. But how do we know?