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Newsroom: Yakety yak, Twain talked back. Interactive playback experiments and...
Many wonder what goes on behind the eyes (and in the minds) of animals. In fact, the aspiring Doctor Dolittle’s of the world may go as far as to wish they could communicate with animals and understand...
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Sunday Sketch: Tabanidae Family of Flies
Tabanidae is a family that contains insects commonly known as horse flies, deer flies, or gadflies. Tabanids are large and conspicuous insects. While the males are mostly harmless, females have...
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Field Notes: My Time with Titis
The worst part is all the sweat bees. The mosquitos can be repelled, but nothing stops the sweat bees. The ants don’t want to mess with you. They’ll defend themselves and their homes. They’ll attack...
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Sunday Sketch: Blackbelly Triggerfish
Rhinecanthus verrucosus, also known as triggerfish, are durophagous, which means that they eat hard shelled and tough prey like snails or clams. To accommodate this diet, they possess extremely strong...
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Sunday Sketch: Pacific Hagfish
The Pacific Hagfish is often referred to as the slimiest fish in the sea due to its slime pores that produce copious amounts of colorless slime. This slime serves as a defense mechanism against...
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Sunday Sketch: Coffin Fly
Phoridae is a family that contains insects, commonly known as coffin flies. They are referred to as ‘coffin flies’ due to their abundance in decaying corpses. Phorid flies are characteristically...
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Creature Feature: Jackalope
For fifteen years, I’d been searching for it: the most elusive creature known to humankind. They all told me I was completely off my rocker to try to do a PhD on the behavior of jackalopes. “Jacbob,”...
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Sunday Sketch: Opossum
The opossum, the only marsupial in the United States, often has thirteen nipples. It has so many because it can give birth to up to twenty young at once, and only those that receive milk survive. Art...
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Newsroom: Winging it Alone and Flying Solo — The Effects of Single Parenthood...
Across the animal kingdom, being a parent is hard. But being a single parent is harder! From animal model systems like rodents [1] to humans [2], it is recognized that when there are commonly supposed...
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Sunday Sketch: Peacock Spider
In peacock spiders, to initiate reproduction, male spiders perform a mating dance for the females, wiggling around and displaying vibrant colors on their bodies during the dance. In response, females...
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Arts & Crafts: An Early Bird Breakfast
What colorful bird could this be? That’s up to you! There are so many amazing birds you can see in local nature areas or right in your own backyard, so get out there and see how many you can name or...
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Field Frame Friday: Panda Personas
Did you know that despite sharing a common name, giant pandas and red pandas are not closely related? They were both given the name panda simply because both specialize on eating bamboo, and the word...
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Sunday Sketch: Freckled Hawkfish
The freckled hawkfish, also known as Paracirrhites forsteri, belongs to the Cirrhitidae family. It is the most abundant type of hawkfish found in the Red Sea, which is the saltiest and warmest sea on...
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Sunday Sketch: Banded Alder Borer
The Banded Alder Borer, scientifically known as Rosalia funebris, is native to the Pacific Northwest. These insects feed on Alder, Ash, and other hardwood trees, and they are sometimes attracted to...
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Sunday Sketch: Stratiomyidae Family of Flies
Stratiomyidae is a family of flies that exhibits incredible diversity in shape, size, and color, including numerous species that mimic wasps. Art and fact by Allen Chew, Instagram & Twitter...
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Field Frame Friday: Tern Time
Researcher Kay Garlick-Ott sets up GoPro cameras at a breeding colony of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) on Stratton Island in the Gulf of Main. Kay is recording the birds’ behavior to learn about the...
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Sunday Sketch: California Mantis Shrimp
The California mantis shrimp, despite its name, isn’t a true shrimp. Using their antennal scale, it communicates with other mantis shrimp. Art and fact by @Squidtoons [Edited by Nicole Rodrigues]...
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Creature Feature: Tentacled Snake
Let’s be honest, the tentacled snake (Erpeton tentaculatum) is not the flashiest reptile in the jungle. These snakes blend in with their native habitat of freshwater or brackish lakes, ditches, and...
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Throwback Field Notes: California Plants and Pollinators
Allergies are on the rise for many Californians as spring has sprung. But while our eyes may be itchy, the pollinators are loving it! Many species are closely tied to the sneeze-bringing flowers that...
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Arts & Crafts: Keeping Corals Cool!
Even though corals look like a combination of rocks and plants, they are actually part of the animal kingdom [1]! Sadly, these amazing animals are in danger due to warmer ocean water and other threats...
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