Sublime

the Western Australian Jewel Beetle. Back in the 1980s, these randy characters—the males—were all copulating normally with female jewel beetles, until Australian designers tweaked the shape of their beer bottles and added a ring of dimples on the bottom that looked like the sexiest fucking beetle slut you could ever imagine. This is all true by the

A species is “possibly extinct” when, on “the balance of evidence,” it seems likely to have vanished but its disappearance has not yet been confirmed. Among the hundreds of animals that are currently listed as “possibly extinct” are: the gloomy tube-nosed bat, Miss Waldron’s red colobus, Emma’s giant rat, and the New Caledonian nightjar. Several sp

It was a strange walk they took through the enormous, shadowy rooms, watched by creatures preserved for ever in their moment of time. Antelopes no bigger than cats raised one leg, ready to flee across the sandy veld. The monkeys of the New World hung, huddled and melancholy, from branches – and by a window a dodo, idiotic-looking and extinct, sat o