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July-August 2008	Back to top
“How Dogs Came to Run the World”
Xiaoming Wang’s page on canid evolution Origin and Evolution of Canidae Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History (Columbia University Press link) Order Carnivora (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology) Order Carnivora (an enthusiast’s site) “Horse, Mollusks, and the Evolution of Bigness” (article by John Noble Wilford on Cope’s Rule) “The Costs of Carnivory” (article by Chris Carbone et al. on why larger carnivores must hunt prey larger than themselves)
“Birds of a Different Feather”
Eben Goodale home page Birdwing Nature Holidays Drongo Videos (The Internet Bird Collection)

June 2008	Back to top
“Sex and the Single Schistosome”
CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases WHO Fact Sheet Hardin Meta Directory Medical Pictures Tufts Molecular Helminthology Laboratory
“Burmese Motorcycle Diaries”
The Snake Charmer, Jamie James’s biography of Joe Slowinski Frank Kingdon-Ward Biography and Bibliography American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Center for North American Herpetology Herpetological Literature

May 2008	Back to top
“Hoofprints”
International Museum of the Horse Kentucky Derby Museum Florida Museum of Natural History Fossil Horse Cybermuseum Foundation for the Preservation and Protection of the Przewalski Horse Havemeyer Equine Behavior Lab, Penn Veterinary Medicine HorseWorldData Cybersteed
“Mental Mirrors”
Mirror Neurons (PBS NOVA ScienceNOW Marco Iacoboni Home Page Mirroring People Official Book Site (Macmillan) Mirroring People (Amazon.com)
“Garden on the Rocks”
McLaughlin Reserve (UC Davis Natural Reserve System) Sedgwick Reserve (University of California Natural Reserve System) Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (Stanford University) Siskiyou Field Institute, Oregon Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, Maryland North American Serpentine Flora (Smithsonian Institution) Serpentine Ecology Conference, June 16–23, 2008 (College of the Atlantic, Maine) Susan Harrison Home page (UC Davis)

April 2008	Back to top
“Sweet Dreams”
AntWeb John Conway’s Homepage Detail on the honey ant Myrmecocystus mexicanus A taxonomy of honey ants of the world
“Around Their Necks”
International League of Conservation Photographers Birdlife International’s Save the Albatross Campaign Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels Tui De Roy Albatross Photographs at Minden Pictures (Search: Albatross Tui De Roy)
“Invisibility”
Michio Kaku home page Physics of the Impossible, by Michio Kaku (Amazon.com) “James Clerk Maxwell: a force for physics” “Metamaterials hold key to cloak of invisibility” Ray Optics, Snell’s Law “Novel Semiconductor Structure Bends Light ‘Wrong’ Way — Exciting Application Potential” “Red light debut for exotic ‘metamaterial’” “The metamaterials space race”

March 2008	Back to top
“That Great Beast of a Town”
Eighteenth-Century London: The Urban Contexts of Crimes Tried at the Old Bailey Eighteenth Century London: Its Daily Life and Hazards The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century Travellers in Eighteenth-Century England: London The Electric Eel Curiosity Cabinets Explained Dr. Samuel Johnson Parodies Eighteenth-Century Amateur Naturalists Review of The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery George Stubbs and the National Gallery’s Exhibition “Stubbs and the Horse” Slate: The Genius of George Stubbs “On Animal Electricity,” by Alessandro Volta
“Art for the Ages”
William Stout Charles R. Knight San Diego Natural History Museum
“No Taming the Shrew”
“Water Shrews Detect Movement, Shape, and Smell to Find Prey Underwater” How Water Shrews Find Prey in the Dark

February 2008	Back to top
“Fish Out of Water”
Dept. of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Neil Shubin Tiktaalik’s Virtual Home: Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish from the Canadian Arctic Devonian Times: “Fishapod” from the North! University of New South Wales Embryology The Tree of Life Web Project National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Education
“A Change in the Weather”
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC): Arctic Sea Ice News Fall 2007 NSIDC: When the Weather is Uggianaqtuq: Inuit Observations of Environmental Change Canada’s Arctic Nunavut Inuit Circumpolar Council Arctic Circle (to stimulate greater interest in the peoples and environment of the Arctic and Subarctic region) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Institute of Arctic Studies Arctic Council Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) Greenland National TV documentary: click the link “Inuit isaannit silaannaq” (Language: Greenlandic Inuktitut, some English) CBC Video: The Big Melt Shari Gearheard home page
“Far from the Forests of the Night”
Big Cat Rescue Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition Broken Screens: The Regulation of Live Animal Imports in the United States Captive Wildlife Safety Act (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) Tiger Mountain Refuge

December 2007–January 2008	Back to top
“At a Loss for Words”
Language Log Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee The People’s Center Review of The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Montana State Travel Information: The Flathead Reservation Flathead Reservation Historical Society Endangered Languages (Wikipedia) Safeguarding Endangered Languages (UNESCO) Linguistic Society of America Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation
“Traces in the Sand” Libya
Lepcis Magna: The Roman Empire in Africa Libya Rock Art Perseus Digital Library Classics Colection
“Baboon Heaven”
Centre for Animal Rehabilitation & Education (C.A.R.E.) Animal Planet Chimp Haven Jane Goodhall Institute Great Ape Trust Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre
Also in the December-January Issue:
“Life Zone: Hiber Nation”
Ground Squirrel Hibernation How Black Bears Stay Fit During Hibernation Extended Life Through Reduced Body Temperature
“Biomechanics: Skating Through the Ages”
A History of Ice Skating A History of Ice Skates (from bone to steel)

November 2007	Back to top
“Blue Planet Blues” and “Sold Down the River”
The American Museum of Natural History’s “Water: H2O = Life” Exhibition World Conservation Monitoring Center: "Freshwater Biodiversity: A Preliminary Global Assessment" IUCN (World Conservation Union) Red List of Threatened Species IUCN Water Programme World Resources Institute: Freshwater Systems—Biodiversity World Resources Institute’s EarthTrends Environmental Information Portal:  Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems Global Invasive Species Database Ramsar: Convention on Wetlands Global International Waters Assessment (Including the Mekong River) Millennium Ecosystem Assessment World Commission on Dams World Wildlife Fund Freshwater Conservation World Wildlife Fund Freshwater Science
“A Special Brew”
Christopher J. Mundy’s home page Shawn M. Kathmann’s home page Gregory K. Schenter’s home page
“Water in the Wild”
Mojave Desert: Animal Adaptations
“Dangerous Waters”
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH) Center for a Livable Future JHBSPH Center for Water and Health Johns Hopkins University Engineers Without Borders USA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Water UNICEF: Water, Environment and Sanitation World Health Organization: Water, Sanitation and Health
“When the Seas Come Marching In”
The New York Times:“A Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Still at Risk” US Army Corps of Engineers Risk Assessment US Geological Survey (USGS): Satellite Images and Aerial Photographs of the Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Coastal Louisiana USGS National Wetlands Research Center: Louisiana Coastal Land Loss Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development: Team Louisiana Report (Federal Levee System Failure)
“Hydro Tech”
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: “Design for the Other 90%—Water”
“Water at War”
Nature Iraq Eden Again New Eden Project Canada Iraq Marshlands Initiative United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Iraqi Marshlands Project UNEP: "The Mesopotamian Marshlands: Demise of an Ecosystem" (PDF) Wetlands International: Iraq Human Rights Watch: The Iraqi Government Assualt on the Marsh Arabs National Climate Data Center: Climate of Iraq (2004) UNESCO: Water Resources in Iraq (2003)
“Sharing the River Out of Eden”
Friends of the Earth Middle East Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection: Water Columbia University Libraries, Middle East & Jewish Studies: Water in the Middle East Oregon State University: Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database

October 2007	Back to top
“Deep Trouble”
Deep-sea Corals Exploration with Remotely Operated Vehicles Deep Sea Conservation Coalition Greenpeace World Wildlife Fund Marine Conservation Biology Institute NOAA—Corals NOAA—Ocean Exploration UK Deep-Sea Conservation European Deep-Sea Research
“Vampire Slayers of Lake Victoria”
The Arachnology Home Page Jumping Spiders American Arachnology Society Brown Recluse and Other Spider Myths The Tree of Life (Videos)

September 2007	Back to top
“Dark Matter”
Dark Matter (Martin White, Berkeley Astronomy Department, University of California) Cosmos in a Computer (National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois) Gravitational Lenses (Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liege, Belgium)
“Altruism among Amoebas”
The Strassman and Queller Group, Rice University “The Evolution of Altruism,” by Eric Strong Game Theory Play "Prisoner’s Dilemma"

July-August 2007	Back to top
“Space, Time, and Timbuktu”
World Heritage Site UNESCO Shindouk and his community (in French) Timbuktu Manuscripts Project (IHER-AB) Timbuktu Educational Foundation Archaeology of West African Empires (PDF)
“How Now, Little Cow?”
Vaquita conservation (World Wildlife Fund) Natural Resources Defense Council “BioGem” San Felipe, Baja, Mexico Conservation International Whales Alive! (Cetacean Society International) Robert Pitman on the Yangtze River dolphin www.vaquita.org

June 2007	Back to top
“Bones from the Tar Pits”
George C. Page Museum / La Brea Tar Pits Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Rancho La Brea Department The Pleistocene Natural Oil and Gas Seeps in California Paleontology Portal
“Survival of the Rarest”
Atlantic Coastal Forest Project Conservation International Biodiversity Hotspot UNESCO’s World Heritage Reserves Wm. Wayt Thomas profile
“Darwin in Court”
The Skeptics Society (Michael Shermer) Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School District trial transcript TalkOrigins Archive on Creation/Evolution Scopes Monkey Trial National Center for Science Education Barbara Forrest and Creationism’s Trojan Horse Flock of Dodos History of the Galápagos Charles Darwin Correspondence Project Intelligent Design?

May 2007	Back to top
“Tracking the Elusive Jaguar”
Belize Zoo San Diego Zoo University of Michigan Museum of Zoology U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources World Wildlife Fund Corcovado National Park
“Hidden Tombs of Ancient Syria”
Tell Um el-marra Tell Mozan (ancient Urkesh) Tell Leilan (ancient Shubat-Enlil)
“Pregnancy Reconceived”
“Miraculous Birth,” an article by Sobia Sarmast Immunology Tutorial

April 2007	Back to top
“Meerkats at Play”
Kalahari Meerkat Project Meerkat Learning
“The Sauropod Chronicles”
Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries DinoMorph™ models Fossil Halls at the American Museum of Natural History Diplodocus carnegii. “Dippy”—Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s First Dinosaur The O.C. Marsh Story “A Fossil Comes to Life,” from Natural History, May 1939
“Vulcan’s Masonry”
Vitruvius: On Architecture Illustrated History of The Rome Empire Ancient Roman Architecture Marie D. Jackson Web page