flying death-squirrel, aarrrghh

totally awesome front cover picture on this month’s nature:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7121/index.html

something about this artist’s rendition reminds me of 80s heavy-metal album covers

This chap’s name is ‘Volaticotherium antiquus’, which means ‘ancient gliding beast’, which is a fairly heavy metal name too.

It’s 130 million years old, and may be representative of a new mammalian order

On a more serious note, there is a nice review section on obesity and diabetes which is nice and timely for a test pilot project I am working on with the Disease Ontology

~ by mutantphenotype on December 18, 2006.