“It is actually a very serious matter for finch lovers.”

One more finch tweeting post before I go - thanks for having me, Ed!

Belgian Meritocracy

Ladies and gentlemen, the storied sport of finch tweeting. (via the avian dialectologists and comparative Belgianists at Language Log)

Flesh-Eating Amphibians

New Scientist: “An amphibious wormlike creature has been found in Kenya whose young feed on their mother’s skin. The creature may constitute a missing evolutionary link between external egg-hatchings to the live births seen in modern mammals, the researchers believe.”