Blonde By Nature

Dear Department of Fisheries and Oceans,
Canada is watching you…do not disappoint us.

UPDATE: Looks like good ol’fashion Canadian free will saved these dolphins!
Although the Mayor asked for the Fisheries Department to send an icebreaker, the department said that there were none available and their “experts” claimed that the icebreakers would stress the dolphins out too much. [...]

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AWWWWWW!!!
One of the cutest animals on this planet, the pygmy tarsier (Tarsius pumilus) was classified as extinct. However, in 2000 an Indonesian scientists trapped and killed a precious tarsier by accident while catching rats – that was the first sign of their presence in 80 years!
It is with great excitement that I announce that these [...]

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With the help of 30 international labs, research biologist Linda Holland has solved the sequence of the amphioxus genome (aka lancelet). Although it’s not a well-known marine animal, the worm-like creature has stolen the scientific spotlight since it is the closest invertebrate relative to vertebrates, despite the genetic split from vertebrates over 520 million years [...]

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Everything in the natural world is connected and the indicator of our successes and failures is apparent in the fragile balance of ecosystems. Ultimately, an ecosystem is “a community of living and non-living things that work together in harmony and balance” and if it becomes corrupt, frogs are the first to effectively communicate the ailments [...]

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There is some exciting news around one of the most well known men in history.
(Excuse me while I geek out for a minute)
The son of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood, Charles Robert Darwin was born in The Mount located in Shrewsbury, England two days before Valentines Day in 1809. He developed a keen interest [...]

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