024August 15, 2016

A tide gate of a flood barrier in the town of Glückstadt on the Elbe river is sprayed with graffiti art devoted to fish, seafood and nautical equipment.

022June 26, 2016

The title of this small still life painted by the Finnish female artist Annu Kapulainen is «halkaisija (Finnish) = diameter» (Magistrat Salzburg 2016 a-b), respectively «The morning of all mornings (aikojen aamu, Finnish = old morning)».

016April 6, 2016

Even large new mammalian taxa can still be discovered.

008September 1, 2015

If we are interested in wildlife or the evolution of animals and plants, respectively their behaviour, ecological requirements or systematics, we will encounter disciplines of organismic biology (neontology) and palaeobiology (palaeontology). The same will happen if we are interested, e.g., in mushrooms/fungi or early and primitive life.

005July 9, 2015

Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868 to 1946), born in France and most of his life a scientist working at the University of Oxford, was a famous English zoologist and palaeontologist, who was interested in research on comparative anatomy and faunistic classification.

004June 30, 2015

The classical, non-avian theropods are a major group of mostly carnivorous dinosaurs that lived from the Late Triassic to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago and, therefore, survived more than 160 million years of the Mesozoic.