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I have finally realized that for anything you are curious about, you can find more information than you want.

Consider the Pear.

I love pears, having grown up with a bartlett pear tree in our side yard and memories of the coming of fall, heralded by my mom trying frantically to can the pears that filled buckets, [...]

I completed 5 dives this weekend for my advanced scuba diving certification. The adventure dives I completed included a deep dive, navigation dive, search and recovery, naturalist and a night dive.
The night dive was the one I was the most apprehensive about and it was the coolest dive I did. There is so much more [...]

Well, in terms of the psychology experiment, I definitely was correct in my previous post regarding the argumentative factor of the Echinoderms Vs. Mollusks.
In fact, there is even a blog response by Kevin at Deep Sea News regarding my cavalier attitude on the coolness of snails. After he mentions Endosymbiotic bacteria, I must admit, [...]

A horse goes “neigh”…. The cat goes “meow”. Pig goes ‘oink’.  The plant goes….
Wait…. The plant?
Apparently, plants can now be identified by the sound they make. According to ScienceNOW, ” Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that can identify some plant species according to their unique sonar echoes.”
The research started as a [...]

Okay, well, personally I felt it was already getting to be spring… most of the time I assume that as soon as its March, its spring.
So why is there a specific date for the start of Spring? It has to do with Astronomy, which really isn’t my forte, but Spring begins on the vernal equinox. [...]

If you ever study animal behavior or ethology, you’re taught not to read human emotion into animal reactions and behavior.

But why?

The answer is that these are animals and we’re looking for reasons for actions rather than saying an animal hid because it was embarrassed. Animals arn’t humans! they don’t even come CLOSE! Right…?

Perhaps it isn’t as inaccurate as all that to believe that some animals are as complex in emotion as humans.

Biophilia is a term coined by Biologist Edward O. Wilson. It means ‘love of life’, or an affinity for wildlife and wild ecosystems.
What a beautiful word!
My textbook for ecology gives an example of the triumph of Biophilia over Technophilia in a tour of the space center at Cape Canaveral. Most of the people on the [...]

One of the sea creatures we saw the most of were sea stars. I found most interesting the Sunflower sea star, or Pycnopodia helianthoides. Perhaps this isn’t the legendary Pisaster, but the Sunflower sea star is the largest sea star I have ever seen.