Ecology & Zoology

Why Some Female Whales Live So Long: Menopause

Humans and five whale species are the only mammals known to go through menopause. Why is unclear but a new study sought answers. Scientists found that females of short-finned pilot whales, false killer whales, killer whales, narwhals and beluga whales and ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2024 - 2:16pm

First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters

One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida, (Carpenter, 1864). While rare today, these are British Columbia’s only native oyster.  Had you been dining on their brethren in the 1800s or earlier, it w ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Mar 24 2024 - 10:40pm

Study: Fish With A Mirror Check Their Body Size Before Fights With Bigger Opponents

Researchers in Scientific Reports are claiming the first non-human instance of an animal possessing some mental states (e.g., mental body image, standards, intentions, goals), which are elements of private self-awareness. They show that Labroides dimidiatu ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2024 - 9:32am

Honeybees Are Boutique Agriculture: Here's What Keepers Want Almond Farmers To Do

Despite nearly two decades of marketing campaigns insisting bees are in decline and science is to blame, the data show otherwise. Bees are not entirely irrelevant in the food supply, and do valuable pollination work in nature, but there are 25,000 other sp ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 13 2025 - 2:46pm

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