Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system. I had already prepared an X for this year’s A to Z. Then I watched this month’s Sky At Night programme on the search for life on Mars. That made me realise that
X is for Exoplanets #AtoZChallenge2018
Methane Archaea
Strictly speaking, I think microscopic animals that use methane instead of oxygen to support life are not classed as ‘natural phenomena’ but just as ‘amazing nature‘. The first chemophiles (lovers of chemicals) were discovered living in the depths of the
Flash Fiction Friday – The Coprolite Conundrum
I’d better give sensitive souls a mild language warning for today’s post; we’re talking about faeces in both coarse and refined terms! Coprolite – the most amazing fossil you’ll ever find. Does it beat dinosaur footprints? Trilobite hairs? Archaeopterix? I