News, links, ephemera 3/24/2015

A giant asteroid slammed into the Australian Outback 300-600 million years ago, the largest such strike yet identified...

The many species of giant squid are likely only one species after all  ...

The forgotten shrew-opposum ...

The Sandwalk looks at the central dogma of molecular biology

A new SINE-based phylogenetic analysis of Australia's marsupials

News, links, ephemera 3/11/2015

James Borrell asks "can a website save a species?"

An appeal to save Madagascar's lemurs is falling on deaf ears according to Guardian columnist Ian Johnson...

Google studies mathematical models to evaluate the trustworthiness of information on websites...

Stassa Edwards explores the longstanding human obsession with cross-species communication in this excellent piece from Aeon...

So you want to be a lemur keeper...

A large-scale humanitarian crisis is looming Madagascar...

Allison Jolly's Conservation Diaries of her work in Madagascar are now available for sale...

A new island has emerged from the sea near Tonga...