February 2012
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Feb 28th
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Female-female Albatross pairings
ethanology: Figure is taken from Young et al 2008 (full citation at bottom of post). I came across this paper looking for something to read in my ornithology class tomorrow. Albatross populations, along with many other oceanic bird species, are threatened by a number of compounding factors, most of which are anthropogenic - including long-line fishing, nest predation from invasive mammalian...
Feb 27th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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A very biology Valentine's Day
My boyfriend did this for me for Valentine’s day since I am a biology nerd. Just thought you’d appreciate it! :) http://imgur.com/3TCLq
Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Edge.org asked 191 famous thinkers "What is Your... →
climateadaptation: “I was told some years ago that the reason why some species of sea turtles migrate all the way across the South Atlantic to lay their eggs on the east coast of South America after mating on the west coast of Africa is that when the behavior started, Gondwanaland was just beginning to break apart (that would be between 130 and 110 million years ago), and these turtles...
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Also looking for someone to do a custom theme for...
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Exciting things coming up!
Woo tshirts! I know someone who designs shirts. We’re working on a few designs and building a store. I was thinking after we design a few to go along with this blog, we can have a voting contest, and which ever shirt gets the most votes becomes available in the store. What do you think? Would you buy one?
Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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celadonlonghorn asked: I found your blog while searching through Scinerds' archive--and I immediately followed. As someone trying to accumulate as many ideas for alien organisms as possible (and someone completely obsessed with biology), I love everything you have here. Thanks so much for that! :D
Feb 5th
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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WatchWatch
visual-sarcasm: loveyourchaos: fuck. listen to this. This dude is awesome Take a break, kids. - nerd.
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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“There is grandeur in this view of life that, whilst this planet has gone cycling...”
– Charles Darwin (The Origin of Species)
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