Tag Archives: reptiles
unlikely friendships
My former National Geographic colleague Jennifer Holland has a new book. It’s the #9 book on Amazon right now. The book, Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom, is about animals that are buddies. There’s a monkey that … Continue reading
animal art
Today I happened to be talking to someone about bonobos and wondered later if I could see any at my local zoo. I can’t – the only great apes they have there are western lowland gorillas and orangutans. There aren’t … Continue reading
museum tourist: KU natural history
This weekend I was in Lawrence, Kansas, where my dad grew up, and stopped by the University of Kansas Natural History Museum. It’s in a great old building atop a hill on the KU campus. In olden times (the Cretaceous, … Continue reading
tortoise/hare
I like how the tortoise (in Boston’s Copley Square last weekend) is dressed up for the holidays. Do you think the decoration would help him win the race? Or create drag and slow him down? Or motivate the bunny to … Continue reading
turtles taste like chicken
Yesterday I wrote about turtles. Turtles are awesome. Their shell is made of bone. Bone! Ok, the part you actually touch, the outside, is made of – guess what – tortoiseshell. It’s something like horn. But under that, the hard … Continue reading
ssssssssssssssnakes
Monday I wrote a story for ScienceNOW about how snakes move. They only run one picture, which meant we couldn’t use this awesome shot of a snake sewn into a little cloth jacket. Doesn’t the snake look perky? It’s all, … Continue reading
pterosaur flight
Hey, lookit – I wrote this. Things I know now that I did not know 38 hours ago: 1. Pterosaurs were not dinosaurs. They were reptiles like dinosaurs, and they lived with the dinosaurs and went extinct with the dinosaurs, … Continue reading