Day: January 25, 2006

Taken at a little league ball park just after sunset.

Fairies stop developers’ bulldozers in their tracks

Villagers who protested that a new housing estate would “harm the fairies” living in their midst have forced a property company to scrap its building plans and start again.

Evolutionary Trade-Offs: Big Brains or Big Balls?

A recent scientific paper reveals that as sexual selection pressures increase in promiscuous bat species, males evolve larger testes and smaller brains. But in bat species where females remain faithful, males had comparatively smaller testes and larger brains. Conversely, male sexual behavior had absolutely no effect on either brain or testes size.

Originally uploaded by seizethedave.

I found this image on flickr – it’s adorable, well done, a bit creepy and just plain cool. Great job, seizethedave.