Things that look like caterpillars
Kathy first wrote to Ask a Naturalist® with remarkably generous concern for a bryozoan colony that...
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Jan 16, 2024 | 2024, Animals, Evolution, Musings About Nature | 1 |
Kathy first wrote to Ask a Naturalist® with remarkably generous concern for a bryozoan colony that...
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Jan 16, 2024 | 2024, Animals, Musings About Nature | 0 |
I was doing one of my favorite things this morning, watching a BBC David Attenborough-narrated...
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Apr 3, 2019 | 2019, Animals, correspondence, Musings About Nature, Tom | 1 |
This is such a cool video. It’s called Becoming, and it’s by Jan van Ijken. If you have six minutes to watch something amazing, you’ll see a timelapse video of a salamander egg (alpine newt – Ichthyosaura alpestris) turning into...
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Nov 3, 2015 | Animals, Evolution, Musings About Nature, Questions and Answers, Uncategorized | 5 |
The Question: Hello, I can’t believe I’m even asking you this, but can an animal evolve shape-shifting abilities or is it completely fantasy? Submitted by: Alexander, England (click on photos and graphics to expand)...
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Mar 20, 2015 | Animals, Musings About Nature, Uncategorized | 2 |
It has been a while since I posted answers to questions, and I apologize for that. I’m hoping to get back into the swing of things over the next couple of weeks. And I thought I’d start with a quick review of a...
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Apr 16, 2014 | Animals, birds, Musings About Nature, Plants, Questions and Answers, Uncategorized | 14 |
The Question: I found these holes in a single tree, amidst dense forest. They were freshly made, with no sign of human footprints (there was snow), but no animal tracks either. They look very man-made, but could not have been....
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Dec 4, 2013 | Animals, Musings About Nature, Uncategorized | 3 |
This is the coolest! Wildlife photographers put a camera on a remote control car and drove it into a pride of lions. The lions broke the car — no surprise there — but the resulting pictures are very cool. And for...
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Jul 19, 2013 | Musings About Nature, Uncategorized | 1 |
I just read Peter Allison’s book Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, and greatly enjoyed it. The stories of Allison’s days as an African safari guide are often funny, sometimes...
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Jul 17, 2013 | Animals, Musings About Nature, Uncategorized | 0 |
I made up my own question today because I had a very cool experience this morning and I want to share it. As I was eating my breakfast at the small lake in central Massachusetts where I am fortunate enough to live during the...
Read Moreby Tom of AskaNaturalist.com | Jul 11, 2010 | Animals, Environmental, Musings About Nature | 3 |
I was snorkeling in shallow water in a small lake in central Massachusetts today, and saw an interesting creature. What caught my eye was that a small section of the sandy gravel on the lake bottom was moving. It scooted forward...
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