What color is it?

A long time ago, I was leading a group of college students on a field trip to the Mojave Desert...

Animal Science

August 5, 2020

More on “What is natural habitat?”

Picking up where we left off in last month’s Research Blog, in considering so-called natural habitats, I thought I would...

Animal Science

June 25, 2020

What is natural habitat?

Habitat conversion is, inarguably, the most devastating impact that humans have upon the natural world. Directly witnessing the effects of...

Animal Science

January 24, 2020

Chasing new species

I spend a large proportion of my scientific career tracking down and formally naming species that are new to science....

Animal Science

December 12, 2019

Another productive year for science

Wrapping up another productive year of research here at Zoo Atlanta, I’d thought I’d share with you the fruits of...

Animal Science

October 24, 2019

Dialing back the clock with new perspectives

In our last Research Blog, we discussed the sad reality of the contemporary extinctions we are facing—the appropriately named Sixth...

Animal Science

October 9, 2019

Contemporary mass extinctions?

In 2008, my close colleagues, herpetologists David Wake and Vance Vredenburg, used the amphibian crisis to support their invocation of...

Animal Science

August 21, 2019

Tackling novel threats to biodiversity

We do not usually think of cancers as being infectious because cancers themselves are generally not pathogens. As in all...

Animal Science

July 29, 2019

Genome of the dragon

The story behind the science Longtime Zoo friends will remember Slasher, our huge and wonderfully tempered Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)....

Animal Science

May 29, 2019

For the love of coffee

Who loves coffee? I do, I do! Coffee, as we know it, is cultivated as varietals of two species of...

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