And other funny species names. (Via Chuck Welch at BlogJazz, who says "This really belongs over at languagehat.")
Posted by languagehat at April 1, 2004 03:37 PMYou know, you linked to this site fairly recently. I thought of pointing out the puns page then, as it was sitting in my bookmarks, but decided against it.
Posted by: Tim May at April 1, 2004 05:46 PMI know, but on a day like this, I thought a link to the pun page was apropos. After all, it was handed to me on a silver platter.
Posted by: language hat at April 1, 2004 06:46 PMLooking back at my RSS reader I received that post on Jan 20th at 2:12 pm.
Obviously I was off my feed that day.
Posted by: Chuck Welch at April 1, 2004 08:29 PMI just posted about the priapalids or "penis worms", whose blood used hemerythrin (lacks porphyrin) rather than hemoglobin to transport oxygen. their blood is pinkish-violet.
Everything you want to know about exotic methods of oxygen transport is there.
Posted by: zizka at April 1, 2004 10:36 PMNo offense, zizka, but if I ever need oxygen transported I'll just call a professional mover. None of your fancy modern hemowhatsis for me.
Posted by: language hat at April 2, 2004 07:45 AMThat's right, I forgot we're all humanists here. I also have a realtime video of a fish-eating snail eating a fish. Those pretty little molluscs can kill you.
Posted by: zizka at April 2, 2004 11:12 AMZizka,
What about video of those parazites living off (and in) humans (in digestive tract, as far as I remember)? Russian newspapers in NY sometimes sell whole 2 page space for the adverts of some "healers" and/or cure products, with amazing pics. I've no idea, is this phenomenon specific to the said newspapers or not.
I'll work on it, Tatyana.
Posted by: zizka at April 2, 2004 01:52 PM