Ecology & Zoology

Bathynomus Vaderi: The Sea Bug Of Your New 'Star Wars' Nightmare

If a giant bọ biển (“sea bug”) in Vietnam hasn't been 'named' by an academic in a journal, does it really exist? Yes, because they are impossible to miss. Isopods of the genus Bathynomus are 10 inches long so they are hard to miss, but disco ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 15 2025 - 2:49pm

Use DEET: Half Of Adult Ticks Carry Lyme Disease Bacteria

If you want to avoid ticks in the woods, wear long clothing or use a scientifically-proven repellent like DEET,  IR3535, or picaridin. Forget products claiming they are 'green' or have citronella, there is a reason that people who buy alternative ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2025 - 10:57am

In Finland, Farmers Are Now Forced To Yell At Geese To Try And Keep Crops From Being Ruined

While talking to farmers in Illinois on September 25th, 1956 who were concerned about increased government encroachment and regulations brought on by the descendants of eugenicists who had founded "environmental" groups like Sierra Club to promot ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 4 2025 - 11:51am

Yellowstone Wolves: Good For Urban Environmentalists, Bad For Everyone Else

A new analysis claims that crown volume of stream-side shrubs is a key metric for evaluating trophic cascade strength and they attribute the 1,500% increase in a small number of sites to increased numbers of wolves. The data they used were collected from 2 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 6 2025 - 4:30pm

As Hunting Declines, So Do Conservation Efforts

President Obama recently got some ridicule for hastily claiming he loved skeet shooting and therefore was not against sportsmen when he wanted to tell Americans they couldn't be trusted to decide how many bullets to buy for their guns. That he was si ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 7 2025 - 10:13am

Being Friends With A Gorilla Isn't Easy

You can't really be friends with a gorilla, but it's still easier than beating one in a fight, even if you are the 100th person trying. They are all really tough whereas an alarming number of human males buy organic beard cream but one thing they ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2025 - 4:29pm

You Can't Spell Replanted Rainforest Without T-E-R-M-I-T-E

Nature is out to kill everything, it is the circle of life, and that is why replanting rainforest without including some termites is counter-intuitively bad, finds a new paper. The balance of nature doesn't exist and believing that plant diversity alo ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2025 - 12:57pm

The 'Still Explosions' Of Lichens On Stone

Lichens on stone, those “still explosions” as the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop named them, remain unseen to most, which is remarkable when you consider how commonplace they are. It seems these ecologically and culturally significant whatever-they- ...

Article - The Conversation - May 24 2025 - 4:00am

The Real Risks Of A 'Natural' Dog Diet

Just as many people are trying to eat less processed food to improve their health, some dog owners are turning away from conventional pet food. Instead they’re trying to get back to what they see as a more traditional “butcher’s dog” diet of raw meat, alb ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 15 2025 - 9:28am

The Cranberry Scare Of 2025 Is Not New, It's Been A Thanksgiving Tradition Since 1959

People are concerned about cranberries again this November, but it isn't a new phenomenon. Cranberries were actually the first modern chemophobia scare, when anti-science activists got government to first do what they have since done to weedkillers, t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 7 2025 - 12:25pm