The tropical trees that once dominated Europe: varietyoflife.net/symplocos-su...

The Tectofilosida, a notable group of armoured amoeboids: varietyoflife.net/tectofilosida/

Secretly shovelling, squamate-slurping snakes: varietyoflife.net/brachyurophis/

Ant mimicry obscures ground beetle relationships: varietyoflife.net/odacanthini/

The challenge of crinoids: trying to get one's anus as far away from oneself as possible. varietyoflife.net/texacrinacea/

Ever wondered what makes those little round bumps on the undersides of eucalypt leaves? The answer is wasps: varietyoflife.net/ophelimus/

Writing a post on the mite genus _Pygmephorus_ proved damn near impossible. I had a hard enough time even pinning down what exactly _Pygmephorus_ was: varietyoflife.net/pygmephorus/

Who wants a man with too many mussels? varietyoflife.net/mytilidae/

A look at three basal families of Australasian songbirds: varietyoflife.net/euoscines/

Sometimes coming up with a good post title is a real stretch, or even impossible. Sometimes, however, they just kind of write themselves. Today's effort on anchovies was definitely the latter: varietyoflife.net/stolephorus/

The complicated sex organs of milkweeds: varietyoflife.net/asclepias/

A string of chambers made from sand grains: varietyoflife.net/hormosinida/

Giant metallic leaf beetles of South America: varietyoflife.net/eumolpus/

The system for gall midges still hasn't settled down: varietyoflife.net/oligotrophini/

Kazacharthrans are monster branchiopods from the Triassic of central Asia, like the fake giant tadpole shrimp meme but real: varietyoflife.net/calmanostraca/

Silurian-Devonian brachiopods that lived like scallops: varietyoflife.net/stropheodont...

varietyoflife.net has reached the mind-bending total of 6000 pages, with this entry on some stunning sea slugs: varietyoflife.net/flabellinidae/

Tourism may not be good news for woolly bats: varietyoflife.net/kerivoulinae/

The Nocardioidaceae: obscure bacteria that could be key to cleaning up some of the world's worst pollution. varietyoflife.net/nocardioidac...

Forked fimbry, a globe-trotting weed, and its closest associates: varietyoflife.net/fimbristylis...

These amphipods are obviously ripping into something, but I don't know what: varietyoflife.net/pakynidae/

Find out about small boring moths: varietyoflife.net/chiloini/

Strepsipterans and their tiny larvae, that may actively launch themselves from their mother's birth canal in search of a host: varietyoflife.net/strepsiptera/

A beetle mite straddling the line between higher and lower: varietyoflife.net/hermanniidae/

The passing around of New Zealand Miocene gastropod _Awheaturris pahaoaensis_: varietyoflife.net/raphitomidae/

Whitetips: two hummingbirds, alike in dignity, by a mountain range divided: varietyoflife.net/trochilinae/

Due to issues with hosting requirements, I've had to change my website domain. varietyoflife.com.au is now varietyoflife.net

Lampreys: the bane of fishes, turtles, and at least one king: varietyoflife.com.au/petromyzonti...

Blackberries: a dense thicket of vegetation, and an even denser thicket of taxonomy. Also, a reminder that plant reproduction is just nonsense: varietyoflife.com.au/rubus/

The opening line of Amanda Lear's wikipedia page is a ride unto itself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_...

Any description of protozoan parasites is going to be waylaid by explaining some horrendous life cycles: varietyoflife.com.au/adeleorina/

Some dangerous snails provided the symbol of dangerous men: varietyoflife.com.au/muricidae/

The Australian potter wasps are both diverse and under-studied; _Australodynerus_ is one Australian genus. varietyoflife.com.au/australodyne...

The _Melanolia_ weevils, a little-studied assemblage of shiny little black balls from South America (image from the Smithsonian Institution): varietyoflife.com.au/diorymerina/

The whitefaces are Holarctic dragonflies named for (nach) their bright white faces. And I've learnt that some dragonflies have male-mimicking females, probably trying to avoid over-amorous males (image by Vladimir Bryukhov): varietyoflife.com.au/leucorrhinia/

The spotted shag is a distinctive cormorant species endemic to New Zealand, one of multiple species to adopt the 'cliff shag' lifestyle: varietyoflife.com.au/phalacrocorax/

A clade name that has gotten absolutely zero traction: varietyoflife.com.au/triglimorpha/ (image by Duncan Pritchard)

Neststraw, an oft-overlooked genus of everlastings: varietyoflife.com.au/asteraceae/ (image by Jim Morefield)

The most confusing frog spawn: varietyoflife.com.au/batrachosper... (image by Martyn Kelly)

Michelinoceratinae, a straight-up wastebasket: varietyoflife.com.au/michelinocer... (image by Haplochromis)

Skeleton shrimp and whale lice: varietyoflife.com.au/caprelloidea/ (image by Hans Hillewaert)

_Bengalia_, rapacious blow flies that rip baby ants from their tending nurses' care and suck them dry: varietyoflife.com.au/bengalia/

Milkweed seed bugs, dressed in black and red: varietyoflife.com.au/lygaeus/

The Neotropical water mites of _Dadayella_: varietyoflife.com.au/arrenurus-da...

Bush dogs, maned wolves, small-eared dogs, island wolves... the wonderful world of South American canids. varietyoflife.com.au/cerdocyonina/

So how do you get links to bring up a preview image in posts? Everything I look up tells me I need to click the "add link card" button, but I can't see any such button when I write a post, whether before or after I paste a link.

Bluestems and gamba grass: varietyoflife.com.au/andropogon/

Hidden mouths of the Palaeozoic: varietyoflife.com.au/cryptostomata/

Sometimes 300 million years is not long enough for it to be obvious what something is: varietyoflife.com.au/skeneidae/