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Field Notes

The Cooposaurus Rex New King t-shirt in black heather, from the Atomic Critters Coop collection

Oct 25, 2026

Why T. rex arms were so short, and how strong they were
T. rex arms ran about three feet on a forty-five-foot animal, they were strong enough to be puzzling, and the newest hypothesis is that short arms kept them clear of other tyrannosaurs at a crowded carcass.

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The Slug Cat Natural women's t-shirt in heather true royal, from the Atomic Critters Slug Cat collection

Oct 24, 2026

What a mackerel tabby cat is, and how to spot one
Mackerel is the striped one of the four tabby coat patterns, and a single gene separates the striped coats from the swirled ones.

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Belli Journey unisex tee in heather natural, printed with a honey badger walking a dirt road past a Welcome to Colorful Colorado sign

Oct 23, 2026

Honey badger vs lion? Why the badger usually walks away
A male lion outweighs a honey badger more than fifteen times over, but the badger's thick loose hide makes it hard to grip and hard to kill, so lions take mostly the old and weak ones.

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Murder Otter, a red-eyed river otter, surfacing in a sunlit woodland creek

Oct 22, 2026

River otter vs sea otter? Watch how the animal floats
Sea otters are two to three times the size of river otters, float on their backs and spend their lives at sea, while river otters swim belly down and travel overland between waterways.

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The Atomic Heart Engine Tech Schematic desk mat, a dark blueprint print with a blue exploded engine, a glowing orange core and equations across a grid

Oct 21, 2026

Desk mat vs mouse pad: which one your desk needs
A mouse pad gives your mouse a surface, a desk mat gives the keyboard and both forearms the same one, and that difference is what decides the buy.

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Cheeseball, the fennec fox from Atomic Critters, sitting upright with her oversized ears raised, drawn against a black background

Oct 20, 2026

What do foxes eat? Voles, beetles and autumn apples
Red foxes live mostly on small mammals, filling in with birds, eggs, invertebrates, carrion and autumn fruit, while a desert fox like the fennec runs on insects and takes its water from its food.

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The opening panel of the Atomic Critters graphic novel: a koi pond with a wooden footbridge and boardwalk on the sanctuary grounds in early light

Oct 19, 2026

What is a graphic novel? One story, told in panels
A graphic novel is one complete story told in comics form and bound as a book, which is what separates it from a single comic issue that arrives as one instalment of a serial.

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The Otto Frozen design on a black heather t-shirt, showing a shaggy pale mammoth hybrid with small curved tusks above iced OTTO lettering

Oct 18, 2026

When did the woolly mammoth go extinct? Three dates
Woolly mammoths have three extinction dates, and the last herd of them was still alive on a Siberian island long after the Great Pyramid went up.

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Belli Badger, the honey badger from Atomic Critters, in character portrait

Oct 17, 2026

Honey badger vs wolverine: size, bite, and who wins
A wolverine is the bigger animal with the stronger bite, but the two live on opposite sides of the world, and the honey badger's loose, armoured hide makes catching it more trouble than it is worth.

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Murder Otter, the red-eyed river otter from Atomic Critters, in character portrait

Oct 16, 2026

Do otters hold hands? Yes, but kelp does the real work
Sea otters do hold paws while resting, but a wild otter more often anchors itself in kelp, and the reason comes down to a coat that only works while it stays clean.

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