Monthly Archives: March 2021

Signs of Spring 4: New Research on Spiders!

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) I haven’t done a blog about spiders in a couple of years. The last one, I think, was in August 2018 when I wrote about the electrical properties of … Continue reading

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Signs of Spring 3: The Cache la Poudre River!

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) The Cache la Poudre River (also just called the “Poudre River”) got its unusual name from French trappers who, in the winter of 1820 during a severe snowstorm, were … Continue reading

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Signs of Spring 2: Dogs, Dogs and Dire Wolves!

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) Last week we talked about some very recent scientific papers that discussed and described the evolutionary origins of dogs. Dogs probably began to associate with humans in very casual … Continue reading

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Signs of Spring 1: Where Did Dogs Come From?

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) So where did dogs come from, and when did they begin to co-evolve with humans? These questions have been occupying the attention of a wide range of researchers around … Continue reading

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