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Fall’s Parasitic Wasps
These are some of the big and bold ones, around an inch long. Plenty are rather smaller…
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Theropods
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte is a good introduction to recent dinosaur discoveries. Mining their own bones for calcium for eggs is another dinosaur trick you find in birds today. Something I didn’t know is that dinosaur (and bird) lungs are quite different from most other types of lungs. We…
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Once there was a leaf that dreamed of the Moon
For eyes trained to notice small things in the air, this is a season of many darting glances.