Visit The EDGE of Evolution and Existence
Jan 28th, 2008 by director
Forget all those ridiculous advertisements for sodas pops that claim to have edge. Nobody’s got the edge on EDGE, a new biodiversity information resources put online by the Zoological Society of London. EDGE stands for Evolutionarily Distinct Globally Endangered, and exists at EdgeOfExistence.Org
None of the human posers you see pouting their way across your TV screen like Zoolander have anything close to the edge of the animals profiled on the EDGE website. EDGE animals are far out, both in terms of their evolutionary adaptations and in terms of being far out on a limb. They’re all in danger of extinction.
Consider the Aye Aye, the skanky lemur that issues a blood-curdling scream in the night, and uses one extremely long, kinky finger to probe for its meals. Or, how about the long-beaked echidna, a mammal that lays eggs? Would a giant salamander as long as a human being interest you?
Check it out, and then get involved, because these animals are too close to the edge for their own good. With climate change on a rampage their little niches may soon be gone forever.
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