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  A Malayan Colugo and Her Baby in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore (2016)

  February 13, 2018 at 9:28 pm / Natural history, NatureDocumentaries.org, Short Observations, Video, Wildlife Documentaries

  This Malayan colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) carrying a baby was observed on November 25th 2016 in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore. The observation has been registered to iNaturalist database. No Malayan colugos have been successfully bred in captivity. Oldest known captive individual lived 17.5 years. Malayan colugos belong to the “skinwing” mammal order called Dermopterans. They are also known as Sunda flying lemurs. They are strictly arboreal, spending their time in the treetops of tropical rainforests entirely. The name “flying” is […]

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  The Most Groundbreaking Scientist You’ve Never Heard of – TED-Ed | Addison Anderson (2013)

  February 11, 2018 at 11:41 am / Evolution, Global Patterns, Natural history

  Seventeenth-century Danish geologist Nicolas Steno [11 January 1638 – 5 December 1686] studied anatomical details of many species including cadavers at a young age. Steno’s contributions to geology influenced Charles Lyell, James Hutton and Charles Darwin. Here in this TED-Ed short animation Addison Anderson tells Steno’s little-known legacy. Steno was a groundbreaking scientist demonstrating the power of empiricism a scientific tradition that was started by Aristotle. Steno, in his Dissertationis prodromus of 1669 is credited with four of the defining […]

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