Author: Carol Duff

Wildlife: For Their Sake, Leave Them Alone! The more food bears obtain from humans, the more likely they are to lose their natural fear of us Source: VTT

Jehol Biota’s Last Meal Reveals New Species of Lizard The lizard is a piece of a complex ancient food web being pieced together in northeast China Source: VTT

Advice to Would Be Anglophiles Here’s how never to mess up your realms, kingdoms and empires again Source: VTT

Helping Dogs and Humans With Cancer Dogs can develop many of the same types of cancer as humans, such as brain, lung, skin, and bone cancer. Source: VTT

A 16 Million Year-Old Sequoia Tells Tales To explain the exceedingly long life of the planet, the Smithsonian’s new fossil hall designers began with this arboreal wonder Source: VTT

Politicization of Ancient DNA What responsibility do archaeologists have when their research about prehistoric finds is appropriated to make 21st-century arguments about ethnicity? Source: VTT

Biomimicry Leads to New Inventions From cat tongues to dandelions seeds, engineers often look in peculiar places for inspiration Source: VTT

Giant Pythons Are Eating Florida Bounty hunters and biologists wade deep into the Everglades to wrestle with the invasion of giant pythons threatening the state’s wetlands Source: VTT

New Discovery: Eighth Lava Lake Volcano Satellite data located the persistent pool of liquid rock on top of Mt. Michael on Saunders Island, part of the South Sandwich Islands Source: VTT

Shakespeare’s Phrases: We Use Them All the Time Most popular Shakespearean phrases Source: VTT