The natural world observed and explained.
Nature
February 12, 2025 If you want to understand nature (and have a bit of fun), you need to learn about taxonomy. If you paid attention in high school biology, you might already know what's coming, but stick with the rest of us while I explain—it's
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Many birds can sleep with one half of their brain while the other half remains awake.
Nature
February 8, 2025 In the midst of winter with snow in the forecast one spring flower has already appeared. Skunk cabbage is the first of the 'spring ephemerals' - woodland wildflowers that take advantage of spring sunlight reaching the forest floor before the trees leaf out. In our
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Beeches, oaks and hornbeams hold on to their leaves through most of the winter - a phenomena called marcescence.
Nature
At first, it's hard to believe that such a big, loud, and demanding prescence calls our woods home.