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Blood-Filled Mosquito Find
46 million years ago, in what we today call Montana, an unlucky mosquito bit the dust just after gorging itself on a meal of animal blood. Two weeks ago, a team of researchers published a paper...
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Foods You Wouldn’t Want To Put In Your Mouth
Full disclosure: I was uninspired this week, so I sat down the night before my draft was due and decided I’d just whip out 500 words about an interesting animal, because I can do that in about 20...
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The Secret Importance Of Bees
I like to reiterate, in a lot of my columns, how interconnected Earth’s living things are. We are part of one huge system and in many ways we rely heavily on the smallest of organisms without even...
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A Big Step For Manta Ray Conservationists
I stumbled across some awesome news today on the internet, and couldn’t help but share it with my readers this week. Just Saturday, Thursday 20th, the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and...
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How Horseshoe Crabs Are Saving Human Lives
I spent spring break down at Slaughter Beach, Delaware. Away from the board-walk, outlet mall, bar-heavy Rehoboth, Slaughter is a little bit in-the-middle-of-nowhere for some people’s taste. While it...
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What I’ve Been Up To Lately
You may have noticed that it has been weeks (dare I say months?) since I last posted anything to DTS. While my aim was for one post a week, my average has been about one a month, but I managed to keep...
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Don’t Fear the Cicada Killer
My favorite posts to do are the ones that make people stop, think, and change their minds about something. Last week, my dog and I had an interesting encounter with a GIANT wasp, and after I stopped...
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The Theory of Self Domestication
[First off, I know it’s been a while. Life took a few unexpected turns, as life is wont to do, and blogging slipped way down my priority list. But I miss it, and I miss you guys, and somehow I...
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