• Urban Observation of the Week: So Many Plants

    Urban Observation of the Week: So Many Plants

    Often when we see plants in the city they fall into one of two categories, weed or decorative. It is rare that we find plants that haven’t been purposefully planted that aren’t weeds. Here are some of the natural flora…

  • Moving to the City: Morphology and Performance in Introduced Urban Lizards

    Moving to the City: Morphology and Performance in Introduced Urban Lizards

    Making the best of a difficult year With a group of other students here at Ohio Wesleyan University, I had successfully written a grant to research the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) in the south of France for the summer…

  • Urban Observation of the Week: Dumpster Diving Bear

    As cities continue to encroach on natural landscapes, bear sightings have become more frequent. If you’ve ever been camping where there’s bears, you know that they have to design special trash bins to keep bears out. So what do we…

  • Urban Observation of the Week: Beaver’s Going Places

    Beavers are excellent builders. Similar to humans, they modify their environment to suit their needs, chomping down wood to build dams. Recently, this beaver was spotted at a subway station. Let’s hope it didn’t get lost on the subway line!…

  • Evolution 2021! Day 5

    Evolution 2021! Day 5

    The annual Evolution meeting (ASN, SSE, SSB) officially kicked off Monday (virtually)! If you are presenting, consider writing a short summary of your talk for the blog (as we have done in the past for in-person conferences). And if you’re…

  • Evolution 2021! Day 4

    Evolution 2021! Day 4

    The annual Evolution meeting (ASN, SSE, SSB) officially kicked off Monday (virtually)! If you are presenting, consider writing a short summary of your talk for the blog (as we have done in the past for in-person conferences). And if you’re…

  • Evolution 2021! Day 3

    Evolution 2021! Day 3

    The annual Evolution meeting (ASN, SSE, SSB) officially kicked off Monday (virtually)! If you are presenting, consider writing a short summary of your talk for the blog (as we have done in the past for in-person conferences). And if you’re…

  • Urban Observation of the Week: Garden Echidna

    Australia is well known for its wild animals, they are so different than what we non-Aussies are used to seeing. This week, we found an echidna in a garden! These egg-laying mammals are found everywhere in Australia, so it seems…

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