More from the ephemera collection at the British Library. You might also want to look at the Wonder of the Sea and American Jack, the Frog Man. Not to mention A.H. Minting, the Marvellous Spiral Ascensionist.
Posts tagged with ‘fish’
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bird of the year: best performances in a supporting role
6 January 2007 – 12:53 am
Best Plant
All those rainforest plants were nice, and I enjoyed taking wildflower photos while I was in Spain. But, not least because it’s nice to pick a winner that I can actually identify, I’m going for the Galapagos Prickly Pear, Opuntia echios. On islands where there are giant tortoises and land iguanas, they’ve evolved woody [...]
FSotW: African Fish
24 June 2006 – 10:39 am
A set of South African cigarette cards featuring fish:
by Fugue. Used under a CC by-sa licence.
Top ten animals - #5, Oarfish
25 January 2006 – 12:22 pm
So, what’s the world’s biggest fish? That’s easy - it’s the Whale Shark. But what about the world’s longest fish? Well, that’s probably the Whale Shark too, to be honest - the trouble is, it’s a category that tends to attract a lot of over-excited and completely unconfirmable reports. But the other fish that has [...]
candles
4 April 2005 – 4:05 pm
“Sometimes entire animals such as the stormy petrel and the candlefish of the Pacific Northwest were threaded with a wick and burned as candles.”
from here.