Archive - Monster-Watch

January 2008 Monster-Watch posts

Insect Pain-O-Meter: How painful is that wasp bite? "Cigar-on-your-tongue" painful? Or "using-a-drill-to-excavate-your-ingrown-toenail" painful?
Turtle Trek: Hares got nothing on this tortoise.
Take a Gander at this Jumbo Salamander: Here’s a ridiculous creature that’s just too wonderfully bizarre for us to let it go extinct.
Wired's Weird Wildlife: Wired has a great piece this month on the exotic and extinct monsters of old.
Monstrous Miracles: The Blind Can See: By breeding with other populations, blind cavefish can have seeing offspring.
Monster Round-Up: January: In this early edition of the Round-Up, we have rats the size of bulls, bionic contact lenses, and treacherous robots.
The World’s Tiniest Tank: Monster-Watch is ready to hand out it’s first superlative. We hereby dub the tardigrades “Earth’s toughest animal.”
Robosaurus sells for $575,000: Luckily, the mysterious buyer promised "not to eat any of your car collection."
Super Roaches From Outer Space (Really): Turns out that monsters from outer space really do have superpowers.
“Zombie” Roaches and Their Wasp Masters: James Cameron, eat your heart out.