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Bringing back the “king” of American forests
(Flickr: Yuichi Tokutomi) The American chestnut used to be one of the most common trees in North American hardwood forests, providing enormous crops of nuts that supported birds and other wildlife, and...
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Monarch butterflies aren’t quite extinct yet!
(Flickr: Ken Slade) The New York Times reports that monarch butterflies migrating from North America to central Mexico appear to be doing better than last year, when the over-wintering colony occupied...
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An artichoke with legs: the pangolin
Some days I just need a pick me up. While others take to the internet and fine photos of kittens telling them to hang in there, I seek the adorable face of the pangolin. Also known as the spiny...
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The Pregnant T-rex
It’s often hard to determine the sex of fossils (most of our parts that determine such things are not… fossilizable). But researchers from North Carolina State University and North Carolina Museum of...
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Snails are going extinct
Given that I studied an abundant snail during my PhD (actually, Potamopyrgus antipodarum is invasive throughout most of the world), this headline was alarming to me. But like many uncharismatic...
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A Race to Document Rare Plants Before These Cliffs Are Ground to Dust
Not figurative dust. Literal dust. Cambodia’s limestone karsts exist nowhere else and are home to a host of endemic species. These environments are being pulverized for cement and scientists are racing...
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The Woolly Mammoth’s Last Stand
Woolly mammoths once flourished from northern Europe to Siberia. As the last ice age drew to a close some 10,000 years ago, the mainland population perished, victims of climate change and human...
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The most important (transitional) fossil you’ve never heard of
I LOVE ME SOME TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS! But this one is particularly interesting, as it fills a crucial hole in the fossil record and demonstrates how four-limbed creatures became established on land....
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The impact of the border wall on wildlife
Sadly, the people who want the border wall, likely will not care that it will drastically impact wildlife along the border. But over at Vox, an excellent piece by Eliza Barclay and Sarah Frostenson...
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Holding a whole species in your hand
FromDavid Sischo on facebook (with accompanying photo): “Have you ever held an entire species in your hand? Its hard to describe how this makes one feel. Exhilarated, filled with deep sadness at the...
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