I’ve decided to start a weekly series highlighting interesting, strange, or just plain cool evolutionary adaptations. If any of you have suggestions for adaptations that you find particularly interesting, I would be happy to include them.
I’m gonna start off with a species that is dear to my heart, the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus). Back in [...]
Jan
20
2009
20
2009
Adaptation of the Week – Timber Rattlesnake Camouflage
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Adaptation of the Week, Creatures, Evolution, Reptiles
Tags: Adaptation, Adaptation of the Week, Biology, Evolution, snake, Timber Rattlesnake
Irradiatus in Categories:
Adaptation of the Week, Creatures, Evolution, Reptiles
Tags: Adaptation, Adaptation of the Week, Biology, Evolution, snake, Timber Rattlesnake
Aug
22
2008
22
2008
A Small Example of the Ignorance of (Some) Rednecks
Today, once again, I witnessed a not-too-uncommon display of ignorance and primitive barbarism in the rural south.
I was driving along a small country back road near my home in North Carolina, listening to a book on CD (no it’s too embarrassing to tell…OK, fine – it was “Twilight” the first novel by Stephenie Meyer about [...]
