Animals

There are, even in the twenty-first century, new discoveries and observations to be made – Dr. Salvatore Cerchio of the New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and an international team of whale biologists have just released images and detailed descriptions on the first scientific observations in the wild ever of Omura’s whales,…

Animals, Good Ideas, Technology

Kangaroo-Avoidance Technology

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/02/2015 • Comments

Only a matter of time — Stateside, as large mammals go, deer are probably the single biggest threat to cars traveling the highways. Now, imagine a smaller, “very unpredictable” deer that hops on two legs: that’s the hell of driving in Australia, where some 20,000 kangaroo collisions are said to happen annually…. There’s no word…

Animals

Seal Gets On Board

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/29/2015 • Comments

What happens when a seal jumps on a boat? At least once in the history of boating, this is what transpires –

Animals

NYC Park Goes to the Dogs for Halloween Parade

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/28/2015 • Comments

Hundreds of costumed dogs descended on a New York City park Saturday for what was billed as the nation’s largest Halloween dog parade. Thousands of spectators mingled with about 300 four-legged contestants in Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park. (Oct. 25) Via Associated Press.

Animals, Nature

The Halloween Crab

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/26/2015 • Comments

Lauren Goode of the Verge writes about an encounter in Costa Rica with a crustacean called the Halloween Crab: Only later, once I was able to connect to WiFi, did I learn that we had just had our first encounter with Gecarcinus quadratus de Saussure, otherwise known as the Halloween crab. And only later, in…

Animals, Science/Nature

Human v. Horse Marathon

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/21/2015 • Comments

Many animals are faster than humans at short distances, but are they faster than humans over long distances?