by Shawn Radcliffe | Apr 24, 2012 | Science
“There she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” By now, Captain Ahab is stirring in his grave at reports of a white killer whale—or orca—spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia. But this isn’t the fictitious white sperm whale of...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Apr 16, 2012 | Science
The discovery of a new species of leopard tree frog in New York City is hardly surprising (see “A New Species in New York Was Croaking in Plain Sight,” New York Times 13 March 2012). We are taught as children that nature is something “out...
