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The world’s oldest known spider web has been discovered on a beach in Sussex, England, trapped inside an ancient chunk of amber.

Scientists found the rare amber fossil in December, and have now confirmed that it contains remnants of spider silk spun roughly 140 million years ago by an ancestor of modern orb-weaving spiders. After slicing [...]

Gynandromorphic butterfly!
So one of the coolest things ever happened this past saturday. A gynandromorphic Hypolimnas misippus (danaid eggfly) eclosed at the Insectarium!

I have read about gynandromorphy while in college and I am just giddy to have been onsite when one appeared.

A gynandromorph is an animal that is literally half male and half female - [...]

Seapig

This is some kind of weird deep sea sea-cucumber.
Ajolote

Not to be confused with the Axolotl (which comes later) this is an Ajolote, which is a freaky long retile found in Mexico [...]