Salmon Young Take the Plunge in May

In May, hundreds of salmon fry are experiencing their own version of “live-streaming,” according to a report from Maine Audubon’s Molly Woodring.

John Walton’s Twisted Views on Disease and Suffering

John Walton is an influential Old Testament theologian at Wheaton College with an unorthodox and non-literal view of Genesis.1 He is also an ardent promotor of molecules-to-man evolution and even serves on the advisory council of the theistic evolutionary organization BioLogos.2 Walton recently participated in a BioLogos video interview related to the coronavirus pandemic


Whale and Ship Collisions in Chesapeake Bay

A recent study, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, reports on the recurring problem of humpback whales colliding with large estuary-trafficking ships.1


Do Shrinking Shrews Cheat Evolution?

Common shrews are uniquely engineered creatures that have a high metabolism—very different from your average mammal. And now biologists have just discovered the shrew’s built-in adaptive secret to over-wintering that is utterly defying the standard evolutionary paradigms.1


Still Trying to Explain the Great Unconformity

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has again tried to explain a global erosional surface known as the Great Unconformity.1 This boundary surface marks a major gap in the rock record between Precambrian rocks below and younger sedimentary rocks above.

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