What Does a Marmot Sound Like?
What happens when squirrels invade the tundra? Well, in one case, they got chubby, fluffy, flappy-tailed, and occasionally kinda cranky, sorta like a hydrophobic alpine beaver.
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How Mosses Have Sex in Spite of Their Swimming-Challenged Sperm
Last summer I was hiking in the tundra near Gray's and Torrey's Peaks when I came upon a moss that looked strange. It had little flattened discs that looked something like this: Polytrichum piliferum...
A Final Fern Tribute, the Witch's Hat Lichen, and an Unidentified Gelatinous Blob
It's about time to get back to your regularly scheduled blogging. But before we leave the Southern Hemisphere entirely, let's have one last Best of the Rest Post.
The Amoeba Collective
Dear Readers — As you are probably well aware by now, today is the Sci Am Blog network’s One Year Anniversary! So, in honor of that fact, we are asking our readers to come forward and identify themselves...
Proteas: The Most Beautiful and Abundant Flowers You've Probably Never Heard Of
It's Independence Day here in the United States, and in celebration, today I bring you a short post about some flowers that grow nowhere in the wild in America -- but beautifully resemble certain patriotic displays that are currently banned nearly everywhere here in Colorado due to extreme fire danger...
The Lost Valley of the Wollemi Pine
In 1994, New South Wales National Parks & Wildlife Service Officer David Noble stumbled on some trees in a canyon in an inaccessible part of Wollemi National Park.
In Search of Wild Colorado Mushrooms -- And Rain
Want to learn how to identify some of this stuff? See me. Each summer I teach a course about wild mushrooms for the Boulder County Nature Association.
An Echidna Snuggles in for a Snooze
After nearly two months of wandering the Southern Hemisphere and a few weeks of recovery post-return, it's time to get back into the blogging here at the Artful Amoeba.
The Overlooked Joy of the Christmas Tree Worm
Put your gills in the air like you just don't care . . . Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchia giganteus. Creative Commons Nick Hobgood. Click image for link to image and license.
The Glowing Spider-Worms of New Zealand
Imagine you are a tiny caddisfly pupa. When you emerge from your pupal case, it is dark, but not pitch black, and high above you, you see the faint glow of a starry sky.
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