Following Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel, a new mural was unveiled in Tehran’s Palestine Square. It features the following message written in Hebrew: "The next slap will be harder. The next mistake they make will be the end of your fake country."
Cave Networks, Fungi, and What it Means to be Alive
“Fear of Depths” by Jacob Geller // Illustration of green mold by Carlton C. Curtis, “Nature and Development of Plants” // YouTube comment by The Florida Man // Illustration of a neuron, from “Neurons and glial cells” // Merlin Sheldrake, “Entangled Life” // map of Mammoth Cave H.C. Hovey // YouTube comment by Lorenzo Pachecho // Illustration of grass roots by Mohamed El Mazlouzi // Merlin Sheldrake, “Entangled Life”
The Brazilian flea toad may be the world’s smallest vertebrate
Males measure about seven mm long on average
A Brazilian flea toad’s head is too tiny to bear its many crowns.
Scientists have bestowed the frog — which is native to Brazil but is neither a flea nor a toad — with two titles: The world’s smallest known amphibian and smallest known vertebrate.
From snout to rump, one Brachycephalus pulex measures just under 6.5 millimeters, herpetologist Mirco Solé and colleagues report February 7 in Zoologica Scripta.
That’s roughly half a millimeter shorter than the previous record holder and small enough to sit comfortably on a pinkie fingernail...