A tale of two tails
The armoured glyptodonts and ankylosaurs are one of my favourite examples of convergent evolution, the evolutionary phenomenon in which distantly related animals evolve […]
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Auto Detailing by Maaco? No, Mako.
Last summer my wife and I bought a new car – it is less than a year old and has already transported quite […]
Mighty Mouth
Museums contain the commonplace, normal, typical specimens as well as the specimens we call TYPES which serve as the golden standard when doing […]
Frost-Free Footwear
When reptiles and amphibians take shelter from the cold, they seek refuge above freezing, but not too warm – maybe 2 to 4°C. […]
Odonata of Canada
Robert A. Cannings¹ 1 Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville St, Victoria, BC, V8W 9W2, Canada Abstract Since Corbet’s thorough 1979 overview of […]
Diptera of Canada
Jade Savage¹, Art Borkent³, Fenja Brodo¹¹, Jeffey M. Cumming², Gregory Curler⁴, Douglas C. Currie⁵, Jeremy R. deWaard⁶, Joel F. Gibson³, Martin Hauser⁷, Louis Laplante⁸, Owen […]