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Haida Gwaii: Birthing Wrangellia
“When the tide is out, the table is set.” This wisdom from those who call Haida Gwaii home is still true today. The enormous difference between high and low tide in Haida Gwaii – up to twenty three...
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Graptolites: Our Oldest Relatives
This fellow is the graptolite, Isograptus cf. maximus, from the Piranha Formation, Middle Ordovician (Dapingian), Bolivia.read more
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Hunting Neutrinos & Dark Matter In North America's Deepest Mine
Deep inside the largest and deepest gold mine in North America scientists are looking for dark matter particles and neutrinos instead of precious metals. read more
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Ancient Archipelago: Haadala Gwaii-ai
A wreck with tales to tell at Naikoon in Haida Gwaii. The islands have gone by many names. To the people who call the islands home, Haida Gwaii means “island of the people,” it is a shortened version...
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Coahuilaceratops Of Northern Mexico
Coahuilaceratops or "Coahuila Horn Face," is a relatively new genus of Ornithischia Ceratopsidae, a herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur who lived during the Upper Cretaceous (late Campanian) near the...
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A New Species Of Edrioasteroid From The Kinzers Formation
This beautiful specimen is Protoaster Haefneri, a new species of edrioasteroid, an extinct lower Cambrian genus of echinoderm from the Kinzers Formation of York County, Pennsylvania. The specimen was...
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Restoring Electrical Conductivity In Pancreatic Islet Cells: A Cure For Type...
We've known for some time that the islet is sensitive to a glucose demand in secreting insulin and uses gap junctions as a tuning parameter in this adaptation.read more
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First Nation Middens: History In The Bones
Many First Nations sites were inhabited continually for centuries. These sites were both home, providing continuity and community and also formed a spiritual connection to the landscape. The day to day...
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Horseshoe Crabs: Xiphosura Arthropods
Horseshoe crabs are classic living fossils. These marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura are slowly evolving, conservative taxa.read more
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McAbee Fossil Beds Re-Open To The Public
The McAbee fossil beds are known for their incredible abundance, diversity and quality of fossils including lovely plant, insect and fish species that lived in an old lake bed setting 52 million years...
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Sexual Dimorphism: Pliensbachian Apoderoceras
This stunning specimen with her regal ridges (and small anomaly) is an Apoderoceras ammonite, an extinct genus of cephalopod and active predatory mollusk belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea.read more
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Cenomanian-Turonian Impact On Marine Reptiles
During the early Triassic period, ichthyosaurs evolved from a group of unidentified land reptiles that returned to the sea. They were particularly abundant in the later Triassic and early Jurassic...
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Nuclear Fusion: Electromagnetic Sunlight
Have you ever wondered about the colors you see in these moments? What sunlight actually is? Yes, it's light from the Sun but so much more than that. Sunlight is both light and energy. Once it reaches...
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Solar Winds: The Magnetosphere
The Earth has a magnetic field with north and south poles. The magnetic field of the Earth is surrounded by the magnetosphere that keeps most of the particles from the Sun from hitting the Earth.read more
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Tetralophodon Of North Africa
Quintus Sertorius, a Roman statesman come general, grew up in Umbria, the green heart of what is now central Italy.Born into a world at war just two years before the Romans sacked Corinth to bring...
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Rhinoceras Fossil Preserved In Pillow Basalt
The Miocene pillow basalts from the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area of central Washington hold an unlikely fossil mold of a small rhinoceros, preserved by sheer chance as it's bloated carcass...
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Sloths: A Habitat For Algae, Fungi & Insects
Ever wonder why the slow moving sloth has a slightly greenish hue? Ever consider the sloth at all? Well, perhaps not. Location, location, location, is the mantra for many of us in our macro world, but...
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Microcurrents In The Management Of Hypertension, Diabetes And Chronic Wounds
When there are more free radicals present than can be kept in balance by antioxidants, the free radicals can start doing damage to fatty tissue, DNA, and proteins in your body.read more
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