Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding

Hibernation is one of the more effective strategies temperate animals have developed to survive winter's cold temperatures and lack of food resources. Many birds, bats and even insects opt instead for seasonal migration, exploiting distant habitats during...

In honor of National Reptile Awareness Day, I'm recycling this old post, "A SERPENT'S TAIL," from January of 2008:
Those of us from certain parts of North America tend to take rattlesnakes for granted, rarely bothering to appreciate how fantastic they really are. They comprise about 50 species, in two unique American pitviper genera, all with tails that are tipped...

Today is the 37th birthday of one of the world's most interesting and important National Parks, Komodo National Park in Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Archipelago. In North America, much has been made lately of the importance of our national park system in...

We've heard a lot lately about regulation, and unless I miss my guess, we can expect to hear a lot more over the next year. With that in mind, it's probably a good idea to think about what exactly we mean by regulation and its various benefits and liabilities...