If you’re in New York, spend an evening with the authors of Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex at the American Museum of Natural History on October 21st at 7pm. …
Read More >In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World, by Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff, is a finalist for the Twelfth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one …
Read More >It’s a safe bet that Mark Moffett, aka “The Indiana Jones of Entomology”, has some good travel stories up his sleeve. Moffett, author of Adventures Among Ants, has been at the scene …
Read More >For 65 million years, Tyrannosaurus rex lay petrified under the earth, until Barnum Brown—fossil collector, oil consultant, onetime spy, and world-famous paleontologist with immaculate style—uncovered them at Montana’s Hell Creek Formation in …
Read More >On June 25, the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War, David and Janet Carle visited Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), on the 38th parallel. The Carles are following the 38th …
Read More >Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie, co-editor of Ardipithecus kadabba and member of the team that discovered the hominid “Ardi”, is the leader of a team that has just announced another major discovery in human …
Read More >Tapeworms, head lice, roundworms, and bedbugs don’t have a very good reputation. They are parasites, living on or in other organisms, embedded or attached, feeding off their hosts, causing painful bites and …
Read More >Janet and David Carle have completed their travels through Europe and Turkey, investigating water issues on the 38th parallel. Their last two stops in Turkey were the vast, alkaline Lake Van, and …
Read More >Since our last update, David and Janet Carle have followed the 38th parallel from Greece to Turkey. On the island of Samos they visited the Samos Ecological Society, watched for endangered monk …
Read More >Since our last update with David and Janet Carle, the 38th-parallel adventurers have traveled from Portugal to Spain and Sicily. A friend guided them through Spain’s marshes, where they saw spoonbills, flamingos, …
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