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Puffball Fungus

Adam Hopkinson — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:58:08 +0000

The puffball fungus produces so many spores, that if every single spore germinated, after two generations the offspring would be 800 times the mass of the Earth.

Confused lions ‘hunt’ small cars

Adam Hopkinson — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:19:37 +0000

Lions at a drive-through safari park in Merseyside are chasing small cars, thinking they are prey. According to the BBC, Smart cars and Minis are particularly easily mistaken by the pride.

Bee

Adam Hopkinson — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:50:16 +0000

I uploaded a whole bunch of photos to my flickr account this weekend, including some more of my beautiful car, some taken in my garden and lots taken in both the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum.

London Zoo offering free tickets for big noses

Adam Hopkinson — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:24:50 +0000

To celebrate the birth of a baby anteater, London Zoo are offering free entrance to visitors with big noses over the weekend of 13-14th August. The zoo is, in my opinion, the best day out in London bar none.

Polar Bear

Adam Hopkinson — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:15:08 +0000

The Flickr Blog has brought to my attention the work of Catherine Jamieson, a 43 year old mother of two from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her photoset immediately struck me because of both the colours and the textures captured.Catherines’ site was chosen by Forbes magazine as one of the top photoblogs of 2004; the photos are all now maintained on Flickr, and hers is a photostream I will be paying close attention to, alongside current fave photoblogs wvs.topleftpixel.com and www.chromasia.com.