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• BARNACLES: K'WITA'A — Ever wondered how barnacles stick to rocks and ship hulls? You'll find barnacle glue decoded here, with the enzyme trick
• BLUE JAY: KWASK'WAS — Did you know the blue in jay feathers is light scattering, not pigment? In this post I explain Blue Jay facts and identi
• HUMPBACK WHALES: MEGAPTERA NOVAENGLIAE — Meet the humpback whose knowing eye stopped me. In this post I tell the story of Megaptera novaeangliae, from baleen fee
• GRAY WHALES: ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS — Surrounded by kelp a young gray whale with barnacles and its baleen peeking out stopped me in my tracks. I tell the natu
• DANCERS OF THE DEEP: JELLYFISH — A graceful ocean dancer in watercolor, long tentacles and ruffled oral arms. Through personal anecdotes I trace jellyfis
• BEAR LOVE: CANADA'S GREAT BEARS — Watch a mamma bear gently wash her cub as I tell the story of black bear maternal care, bear hibernation in Canada and s
• GOAT: CAPRA AEGACRUS HIRCUS — Did you know goats were domesticated in Iran about 10,000 years ago? In this post I trace Capra aegagrus hircus origins,
• HERMIT CRAB: REAL ESTATE TYCOONS OF THE FORESHORE — Want to meet the foreshore's tiniest real estate tycoons? In this post I watch Grainyhand hermit crabs on Vancouver Isla
• MOON DANCERS: POETRY UNDER THE SEA — Under moonlit water, moon jellyfish drift like glass sculptures. As the Fossil Huntress I trace Aurelia aurita distribut
• DANCING BUMBLEBEES — Meet a busy bumblebee of Bombus sp, up close in gardens and wildflowers. I blend bumblebee facts and First Nation lore,
• OWLS: MASTERS OF THE HUNT — Silent hunters of the night, owls move as if stitched into shadows. I trace their fossil record from Paleocene Ogygoptyn
• MEET THE NIGER RIVER'S TOP PREDATOR: SUCHOMINUS — A crocodile-snouted terror of the Niger River, Suchomimus tenerensis prowled Early Cretaceous floodplains. In this post
• CLALLAM BAY FOSSIL HEIST — Sunshine, tides and a comic fossil heist made for a memorable Clallam Bay fossil hunt with my mom. We explored the Clall
• FOSSIL FISHAPODS FROM THE CANADIAN ARCTIC — What if a fishapod went back to the water? Here I tell the story of Qikiqtania wakei, a Tiktaalik relative and new entry
• An "Extinct" Fish Finds Life Again in a Parched Desert: The Saga of the Shoshone Pupfish — What if a fish declared extinct turned up in an irrigation ditch? On a trip to Shoshone east of Death Valley I tell the