Topic: Scientific Picture of the Week

[sam]

Time for something that isn't astronomy    -thought this is nothing new I came across it earlier in the week and found it fascinating..

HOLY BAT TONGUE! Eat your heart out, Gene Simmons. The tongue of the Ecuadorian nectar bat  Anoura fistulata unfurls to 8.5 centimeters--twice as long as related bats' tongues and half again as long as the animal itself. Such a lengthy licker, which has its base near the bat's sternum, is just the right size to lap from a certain species of flower, according to a report published last month in Nature.

see here

[sam]

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Saturn Moon, Mars ''Lava,'' More

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/photogalleries/space-photos-week7/index.html


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[GillE]

What an incredible photo of the bat.  Just think, our generation is the first to see such wonders, and it's all due to modern camera techniques.