Wasps (Family Vespidae) have a bad rap, but their benefits actually outweigh their painful sting—although many would disagree!

Research continues regarding complex and amazing microbiomes found on or within a variety of creatures.¹ The microbiome is a microbial community occupying a specific habitat, such as bacteria (diptheroids) living on the surface of your skin, coliforms in your large intestine and possibly Corynebacterium mastitidis (C. mast) your eye.²

Now this is exciting: “Geologists have found the fossil of the earliest known animal predator. The 560-million-year-old specimen is the first of its kind, but it is related to a group of animals that includes corals, jellyfish and [sea] anemones living on the planet today.”¹

Plant scientists have known for decades that plants aren’t just static entities. The half-million or more species of plants in the world display incredible design features and complex interactions with other plants.

Once again, a recent and remarkable fossil discovery has been made challenging evolutionary theory. A strange arthropod (i.e. a radiodont) has been found in the Cambrian strata of the geologic column.