What turtles can tell us about our planet — Ever since I can remember, turtles have been one of my favourite animals. When I was young and living in a suburban town on Long Island, NY, we often had box turtles wandering in our street or our back yards. It was fun to tap their shells, watch them pull…

The problem here isn't so much the age of the people; it's the whole structure of our society. …

Yup! Right on target, Shannon! People hate to change ANYTHING about their lives. Especially in Western cultures. It's all about feeling good in the moment and the hell with anything or anybody else. They don't have enough to eat? Not my problem. They can't afford a house? Not my problem. They can't afford to get treated for an illness? Not my problem. And let's not even talk about education! They went to college, took all those courses about how to teach kids. So what!~ These are MY kids and they aren't teaching them what I want them to know and they're teaching about stuff I don't want them to know. Doesn't matter what's best for our society and other people. Me, me, me, mine.

Hogfish can choose which colour they change into — Camouflage is a necessary survival strategy for a variety of living beings including people. Like hunters and soldiers. Many of the animals that employ camouflage, do it to prevent being preyed upon and taken for some other animal’s dinner! Or use it to prevent prey from detecting them before they…

New data has comb jellies replacing sponges as the closest known living relative of the very first animals that appeared on Earth. — There is a long-standing paradigm which contends that evolution progressed stepwise; from simple to more complex, less sentient to more sentient, and so forth. And for the most part, this is what we observe. But not always. One question that evolutionary scientists have sought to answer is what creatures alive…

As always, spot on, umair! I'm Canadian and I feel it, too. Pre-COVID, a 5# box of blueberries cost me $10. Now it's $20! And my mortgage just increased $800 a month when the Bank of Canada raised it's rates last month! This is not an easy, pleasant time to live in, economically. Yes, I know Trump and his MAGAs are NOT the answer but the Dems are not giving much hope either! At least not in the short term.

As Jewish person who is only 1 generation down from World War II (my father was a radio operator on a bomber in the war), this is just too close for comfort. It is so hard to believe that the whole effort of tracking down and trying Nazi criminals at…

Not in the popular media, you won't! And certainly in the crazy Far Right GOP. Because none of those traits will garner power and wealth. And that seems to be all that matters to "the stupids" in America and around the world today. Those positive attributes all require that you…

This sounds like solutions to me, @TomWright. Whatever happened to philanthropy and anti-trust legislation?! Well, we know what happened and this is the result. A bunch of self-centred, self-righteous egotistical bullies who only care about how much money and power they can obtain and wield. And everyone else can go f@#%k themselves. Sad. Very. Sad.