Janaki Lenin

She is the author of My Husband and Other Animals. She lives in a forest with snake-man Rom Whitaker and tweets at @janakilenin.

A black turtle-headed seasnake sloughing its skin. Credit: Claire Goiran

The Dark Price That a Seasnake Paid to Live in a Polluted World

Janaki Lenin 27/08/2017

This is the first and only evidence of a...

Crucian carp. Credit: Göran Erik Nilsson

Goldfish Survive Without Oxygen by Making Booze

Janaki Lenin 20/08/2017

Although the fish may not be intoxicated, it's likely...

A mere four nanograms of clothianidin, one of the neonics, is enough to kill half of all the honeybees that feed on it. Credit: image4you/pixabay

Are Pesticides Called Neonics to Blame for the World’s Bees Crisis?

Janaki Lenin 14/08/2017

Neonicotinoids, popularly called neonics, came on the scene when...

A yellow seasnake. Credit: Brooke Bessesen

The Many Unique Features of the Yellow Seasnake – Such as Its Hunt

Janaki Lenin 14/08/2017

“This is a very distinct snake, in size, colouration,...

A sea spider. Credit: Timothy R. Dwyer (PolarTREC 2016), Courtesy of ARCUS

An Insect’s Ab Workout, Bird-Eating Bugs and the Plant That Schemes Against Caterpillars

Janaki Lenin 03/08/2017

A quick review of interesting research on living things...

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What Decapitated Worms Can Tell Us About Seeing Without Eyes

Janaki Lenin 01/08/2017

The researchers cut off the heads of a group...

A male mosquitofish. Credit: NOZO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Why Too High a Sex Drive Puts off These Female Fish – and What They Do About It

Janaki Lenin 25/07/2017

Poeciliids, a group of fish to which the eastern...