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Rattlesnakes Around the World: Evolution, Adaptation, and Their Global Relatives
Do you hear that sound? That faint, eerie rattling coming from somewhere at your feet?…
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How Fruit Bats Support Tropical Forest Regrowth
When we think of bats, our collective unconscious conjures images of squeaking, flapping masses of…
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The Life Cycle of Cicadas: 17 Years Underground
If you hail from a certain part of the United States, every so often, you're…
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Grizzly Bears: Ecosystem Engineers of North America
Many of us had teddy bears as children. These stuffed animals, named by famed conservationist/hunter,…
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How Beavers Transform Landscapes and Create Wetlands
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it,…
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Pangolins: The Most Trafficked Mammal in the World
When I was a kid, animals were my jam. I had animal bedsheets, figurines, plushies,…
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Fennec Foxes: Desert Survivalists with Iconic Ears
Over the past several weeks, we've discussed animals that dwell in some of the coldest…
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The Great Migration: How Caribou Cross the Arctic Tundra
Each year, children all over the world wait up on Christmas Eve to hear the…
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Tenacious Tundra: How Wolverines Thrive in the Arctic Wilderness
In the X-Men comic books, they say that the superhero/anti-hero Wolverine is "the best there…
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The Pampas: Grasslands of Life and Wind
Our last sojourn to wild lands took us to the teeming swamps of the Everglades,…
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The Everglades: A Living Treasure of Animals and Plants
Our weekly trip on the True Investigator World Tour takes us back to the continental…