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The Shoulder Bone's Connected to the Ear Bone…October 15, 2008 – [10/16/08 Correction appended: see end of post] When our ancestors moved ashore some 360 million years ago, they underwent a lot of changes as they evolved from ocean-swimming fish to land-walking tetrapods. For one thing, they needed feet instead of fins. Paleontologists have discovered a series of fossils that document the early evolution of limb […]
Repost: Twisting the cuttlefishJune 04, 2010 – The “common cuttle-fish.” From Mysteries of the Ocean. About three decades before On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection would forever change biological science, the aspiring young naturalists Pierre-Stanislas Meyranx and Laurencet submitted a paper on mollusks to France’s prestigious Academie des Sciences. For weeks they waited for a patron from within […]
Surveying the Kid-Friendly CruisesApril 02, 2010 – Rainer Jenss surveys the field of cruise ships offering packages for families. I probably caught the wanderlust bug the moment I stepped on the S.S. Michelangelo, a classic Italian Line ocean liner that relocated my family and me to the United States in 1970. I was only six years old back then, but I remember…
Pacific Islands and Oceania ToursApril 20, 2010 – See our roundup of the best guided expeditions in the Pacific and Oceania.
Best Tours in the Pacific Islands and OceaniaApril 20, 2010 – See our roundup of the best guided expeditions in Pacific Islands and Oceania.
Climate Change Myths: Sorting Fact from FictionDecember 21, 2010 – There’s no consensus on global warming. Climate models are inaccurate. Temperature records are unreliable. Earth’s climate has changed before. Oceans are cooling. Human CO2 emissions represent a tiny percentage of overall CO2. Water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas. And so on, and so on. We’ve heard them all. Climate change is one of…
