Storming of the Locusts
You’ve seen the funny little grasshopper. He has big eyes, long feelers called antennae, and legs that are kind of bent backwards allowing him to jump fairly long …
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Puma, Cougar, Mountain Lion: Nature Encroaching Into New Areas
There is a cat with many names. Depending on where you live, it may be referred to as a: cougar, mountain lion, panther, catamount, puma …
Walking Sticks and Other Camouflaged Insects
It’s a jungle out there. Entomology professor Julie Peterson says there’s an estimated 10 quintillion insects on earth’s globe. If you have …
Going Against the Grain: All About Salmon Spawning
It might not seem important to think about salmon and muse over their history or ponder what their life is like today. But it’s a vital …
The Octopus and Soft Robotics
Octopuses are cool. Part of the Cephalopoda class (pronounced sef-uh-luh-pod), which is any member of the phylum Mollusca, a small group of …
Are Snakes Shifty or Maligned?
By all account’s snakes are shy, nervous and fast. There are more than 3,500 species and twenty percent of the snakes of the world are …
Tracking Animal Migrations
Finding Their Way Think about this: would you be able to find your way out of unfamiliar woods? Obviously, animals don’t have maps or a GPS …
Box (and Sea) Turtles Know Home
In the 1960s baby aquatic turtles called hatchlings were all the rage. You could order them from catalogs and mail order, where they were …
Tardigrades, Water Bears or Micro Bears: What Are These Creatures?
TARDIS. No, you won’t see “Doctor Who” in the background and it isn’t a new movie, jacket, cell phone or pastry. It’s a mission. Tardigrades …
Toenail Fungus: What Causes It and How to Get Rid of It
One day while you are drying your feet, pulling off your socks or slipping into flipflops, you notice your toes. Not good. A couple nails …
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