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What devilry is this?

[featured image] Let’s start this post with a picture: What’s going on here? Some photoshop jiggery-pokery? An amphibian version of Russian dolls? A severe case of indigestion? Sadly, none of the above. Even more sadly, it’s the first and last picture of a gastric-brooding frog (Rheobatrachus silus) ‘giving birth’. Like …

Dead as a dodo

[featured image] Back in March, my second big book was published after many months of tapping away at my Remington typewriter and begging some kindly illustrators to help me with pictures, for which they were remunerated in charcoal and easels. The book is all about extinct animals, namely the ones …