Mysteries of Montreal

  Merry Christmas to you all. For something a little festive, may I suggest the H.P.Podcraft's reading s of H.P.L.s Christmas poetry. Set one , set two and set three .    As for me, I have a bunch of posts lined up for the new year. I hope to use the next couple of weeks off to make some headway.  Here's to a mysterious 2014.

Tiny octopus-like microorganisms named after science fiction monsters The subheading says it all. Some researchers at UBC (University of British Columbia) found some new micro organisms in the saliva of termites. They named them  Cthulhu macrofasciculumque and Cthylla microfasciculumque. They were named so after they were though to swim in an octopus like fashion, although that seems a little bit of a stretch, my instinct is someone in that lab has been itching to name something after Cthulhu since he started grad school, and you don't get to name new species often these days. This is, however, the first time I have ever heard mention of Cthylla . Maybe I'm not so well versed in the mythos as I would like to think (although she is one of Lumley's, and Source Original Paper .

A  sunfish  has been found washed up on the banks of the Saint Lawrence river near Sainte Flavie, Quebec. This tropical fish was far from its normal habitat. Claude Nozères, a biologist from the region stated, « C’est un poisson que l’on retrouve aux États-Unis. Il a dû suivre le courant chaud, et avec les températures plus élevées de l’été dernier, il s’est approché du golfe Saint-Laurent » " It is a fish found in the United States . It had to follow the warm currents, and with higher temperatures of   last summer,   it made it to the Gulf of St. Lawrence" Of course, once the fish reached the colder water of the St. Lawrence, it was unable to survive. He added, « Il aurait pu rester longtemps sur les berges sans être mangé par les goélands. C’est un poisson qui ne se mange pas. Lui-même se nourrit de méduses » "It could have stayed long on the banks without being eaten by gulls. This is a fish that can not be eaten .  They feed on ...