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This is the eighth of eight posts on evolutionary research to celebrate Darwin's bicentennial. In Virginia, USA, sits a facility called the American Type Culture Collection. Within its four walls lie hundreds of freezers containing a variety of frozen biological samples and among these, are 99…
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) was likely behind the slaughter of three Amur Tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) , an adult female and two cubs, involving two separate incidents in Chongqing, China during the past week. Last Thursday an adult female tiger was found by park officials, the…
Happy Earth Day, everyone. I doubt my own ability to come up with something especially meaningful and poignant today, so instead I will refer you to two of my favorite quites from Carl Sagan and Aldo Leopold. It is a century now since Darwin gave us the first glimpse of the origin of species. We…
There are limits to even my capacity to cope with The Stupid, and this video reaches them. It's interesting in a historical sense, in that it seems to be an old recording — familiar faces look so young, and the whole thing has the clumsy style of a bad 1970s documentary—but it's a whole half-hour…