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He found Giants then the Government Found Him | What really happened to Andrew Dawson? Andrew started his TikTok account…

Tweet At 2700 m above sea-level on the northern slopes of an un-named mountain. This elfin forest is very humid…

AI is a double-edged sword, equal parts threat and opportunity. The ethical dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence must be addressed. Martha…

Picture this: a 43-year-old bonobo watches as a researcher tips an empty pitcher over two empty cups, miming the gesture…

 MICHELIA CHAMPACA L.Systematic Position:  Division: Phanerogams     Sub-div.: Angiosperms         Class: Dicotyledons              Sub-class: Polypetalae                    Series: Thalamiflorae                        Order:…

The ISMPP European Meeting is a specialized annual conference focused on standards of medical publications and scientific communication. It is…

 I was invited by the fine folks in Digital Marketing at DreamWorks Animation to create a drawing of my choice…

Hymenocallis is a genus of plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. Containing over 60 species, they are native to the…

And now for something completely different – such is the scope of Earthlearningideas. ‘How many sand grains are there in…

The Buddhists say grief is the price we pay for love. On Friday night the wounds I had just managed…

 On Monday 2nd January at 11am and until 1pm there will be a 5k fun run around the paths of…

AbstractTwo species of Stigmatodactylus have recently been observed in the Arfak Mountains of West Papua Province, Indonesian New Guinea. One of these…

Who knows what mysterious creatures might walk out of the jungles of southeast Asia? Rumours abound of…

Enchanter’s-Nightshade, Circaea alpina (Onagraceae). 🌸🍀 Circaea is named after the Greek Goddess Circe, an enchantress. Interestingly, though the specific epithet…

Essay by Eric Worrall If we don’t act quickly, the tropical city of Belém in the Amazon Jungle might become…

What’s the bare minimum needed for life? Scientists may have just found the answer in a tiny archaeon named Candidatus…

Photo by Scott Ruether, CC BY 2.0 When making up alien creatures, imagination has no bounds. Alien characters in sci-fi stories…

An international team of scientists led by the University of Bath has developed a new catalyst – a substance that…

For previous TetZoo articles on birthdays and other landmarks, see…Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part I), January 2007Happy first birthday…

Looking out at the ocean from the balcony of a Celebrity cruise shipWe took a cruise this month, and we…

I am an American citizen, and I don’t look like someone you would stop if you were on the street…

Last week I gave you this bony structure to identify: I didn’t think this one would prove too difficult, since…

Head over to our site Gather and Sow for the March 2026 newsletter. “Light Iris” by Georgia O’Keefe (1924). You…

Earlier today, the Journal of Science Policy & Governance (JSPG) announced the appointment of Laurie Zabala as its fifth Chief Executive Officer…

Figure 1: A) Trunk-dwelling Cyrtodactylus consobrinus © L. Grismer. Its subdigital scales (the scales below the digits, where toepads might…

Opening Night: Thursday, June 234:30 to 5:30 pm: Stop by our table in the Concourse Hotel lobby, to pick up…

Toddlers are the daredevils of the chimp world. Those 2 to 5 years old are more likely than older chimps…

Co-authors: Louise Giovannelli and Irina Rotenko From mid-August to the end of October, we closely monitored the wolf families that…

Our back yard transformation began with the demolition of our +30-year-old cedar shed and construction of a big, beautiful new Urban…

Fatima Cody Stanford, Obesity medicine physician-scientist, educator and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Courtesy of…

Procreating with a relative is taboo in most human societies for many reasons, but they all stem from avoiding one…

 Santa Fe Botanic emailed me recently and asked how to define and categorize some plants into their database, which I…

Research journeyBeing born and brought up in a remote village of Haryana, my family and neighbors had no background in pursuing…

Hello again from Serena camp! As you may have seen from our last two posts on North and Happy Zebra clan,…

Any way you want to slice it our gardens are suffering through a drought. Areas that would be called “lawn”…

On a wooded hilltop in eastern Ohio, a massive sandstone boulder bears more than a hundred ancient tracks whose origins…

Red-backed Flameback – Tissamaharama area, Mar 23, 2025 White-naped Woodpecker – Tissamaharama, Mar 20, 2025 Yellow-crowned Woodpecker – Yala NP,…

I had a mild panic attack the first time I bought a washing machine. I was twenty-eight and a housemate…

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At this point, it should be obvious that for this species to persist, its habitat needs to be maintain via…

LiCata, V. et al After years of high attrition rates in its prestigious Molecular Biology program, Fartlek University has begun…

Research published in Nature Communications on Thursday 15 January 2026, co-authored by Dr Joseph Millard of our Agroecology Research Group, provides new…

Puccinia urticata on Urtica dioicaIt’s hard to walk by banks covered in common nettle without noticing this fiery and gruesome…

The dental crown Tundra received. Image credits: Lake Superior Zoo/Instagram An unexpected glint now catches the light whenever Tundra opens…

Do you study (marine) biology at the University of Bergen? Are you interested in a 1-month funded internship in Brazil,…

This week’s plant will be familiar to anyone who has a garden with a herbaceous border. We are at a…

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) are drawing attention to a powerful and preventable factor in cardiovascular disease. Their…

Drawing of Tuataras by Mary Edith Durham (1863-1944) for Hans Gadow’s volume Amphibia and Reptilesin the Cambridge Natural History series of…

They are beautiful flowers Fuchsia magellanica flowersFuchsias are a group of some 105 species, native mostly to South America, in the…

Researchers at the University of Granada have revealed that the Nutri-Score labeling system, commonly used in Europe to assess food…

 Yours truly in front of a life-sized model of a giant prehistoric scorpion, on exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum…

If you were the vicar of a rural parish in the early 20th century, what would you get up to?…

This week, I had to fix some equipment. It wasn’t a big fix; a lever had fallen out of alignment…

Wale, C.H., McConnell, S., van Leeuwen, S., Cowan, M.A., Spencer, P.B.S., How, R.A. and Schmitt, L.H. (2025). Disruption and irruption…

 Amos crossing a bridge on the Chuck Keiper TrailWhat a joy it was to walk, simply walk, following a singular…

A former coal-mining village on Vancouver Island is exploring an unexpected path to clean energy: using the water pooled in…

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Bird (male House Finch) flapping wings to startle insects out of the flowers of an Australian Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata) Iris…

In the summers of 2016 and 2017, a small research team endured harsh conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet to…

Pac-Man was always such a harmless soul, lost in the labyrinth of his own mind, chased by ghostly memories of…

Hello all,Long time no see ;-)On February 2025, I had the chance to climb the fabled Mount Roraima in Venezuela to explore…

In 1856, American scientist Eunice Foote made history by publishing the first academic paper demonstrating that carbon dioxide traps heat from the…

• Definition: The process of maturation and differentiation of PGC to oogonia, primary oocytes, secondary oocytes and to mature ova…

For the last three years, we have launched our autumn membership special offer by saying that ‘in a rapidly changing world, our…

This illustration shows a spacetime grid where the grid is being dragged due to rotation, but where expansion farther out…

I have been, very kindly, nominated to take part in the Sunshine Blogger Award by Kannan Raja, the author of…

Allan Trott’s (mistake-free?) knot garden at Ashburton in Aotearoa/New ZealandWhen I asked my wife what she thought of my most…

Could you give us an example where you have piloted such an approach and extended it?In the legacy products space,…

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Prunella vulgaris can be found all over the place. It has also been used to treat just about everything. What…

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Some creatures make a living by pretending to be something they’re not. (Like Halloween, every day!) In one high-flying example, zone-tailed…

You should make kombucha (чайный гриб or chayniy grib) at home to drink and for your children to drink.  It is…

Credit: franganillo/Pixabay Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming central to environmental decision-making. But unless women’s voices, labor and lived realities are…

The TCD Botany-Zoology Postgraduate Symposium made its annual return this month on the 7th and 8th of March for its…

  March is a tricky month for predicting flowers. The weather prognosticators have gotten a little better over the years, but predicting more…

Currently, RIKEN is a national research institute in Japan, but it was originally founded as a private research foundation in…

Malay tapirs are glorious. These adorable animals spend their time innocently wandering around the rainforests of Southeast Asia, blissfully grazing on…

The Tropical Stream Garden transports you into a tropical rainforest with a gurgling stream. The towering palms, banyans, bananas, and…

Modern scientific publishing is often portrayed as a neutral system advancing knowledge through merit and debate, but in practice it…

 The Gonzo Daily: Sunday Okay, boys and girls, this is all going to get a bit complicated. As you may…

Today we celebrate Dydd Gŵyl Dewi, though the day of the second most famous Welsh saint is actually tomorrow. It’s…

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Incidentally, as I was doing all this deep diving on the red-bellied woodpecker tonight, I noted that All About Birds…

California Trees: A Field Guide to the Native Species Review by Brett Hall California’s native trees have always invited curiosity.…

This post provided live reentry prediction updates (newer ones at the top) from ESA’s Space Debris Office on the atmospheric…

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on February 2nd, 2023 Return of the Dodo? Scientists launch project to bring back the extinct…

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It’s been about 8 months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the…

In 1952, a Japanese ecologist named Kinji Imanishi wrote something that would take 72 years to reach most of the…

Jayyvon isn’t doing anything bizarre that needs explanation like 1332 Alexis Gabrielle Sherrington or 1715 Tyler Linoleum; I’m giving him…

A Night of Beer, Light & Discovery – Sept 17th Sept 17 PyroFarms is coming to Michi Brew Co. for…

It’s that time of year again! Here’s this year’s contact sheet of goofy jack-o-lantern pumpkin designs:(click to enlarge)It seems like…

Economic aspects of applied anatomy: Economic Aspects of Applied Anatomy There Are Occasions When Herbarium Botanists Find That It Is…

Hmm, well it’s not just climate science they dislike, they, or more exactly, their fundamentalist/evangelical component, which seem to have…

My amazing mother who is now 80, came to celebrate my 50th birthday. I should already be dead. I am…

This winter has been the perfect testament to the climate change our state (and the whole planet) is experiencing. In…

Photo: PexelsOne tracks heartbeats through algorithms, while the other catches them with a steady hand. Artificial intelligence (AI) may master…

When Roger Met Patty by William Munns (2014), Createspace Independent Publishing, Platform, 510 pp, paperback and Kindle. In October 1967…