Tuesday, July 8, 2008

"Bork bork"

In the Science Times, Natalie Angier has an appealing article on the musculature of the male toadfish:
A male toadfish may not look the part of an animal Olympian. He spends his time sitting nearly motionless on the bottom of a marsh, his body like a smeared scoop of pudding and old coffee beans, his full, fleshy lips pulled downward in a perpetual Churchillian scowl. Yet it turns out that inside the belly of this gelatinous, seemingly languorous beast are some of the fastest muscles in the vertebrate world, and the most instructive.

1 comment:

Danielle in Iowa in Ireland said...

What really freaked me out about that article was the part about her bike rack breaking and demolishing her bike on the highway. That is my nightmare!