Tag: aquatic
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Meet the orca
March is Women’s History month in the United States, and this past Wednesday (March 8) was International Women’s Day. So to celebrate, I want to introduce you to a fantastic animal mother: the orca (also known as the killer whale). Orcas (Orcinus orca) are one of the most widespread species of animals and the most…
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Meet some Daphnia
I’ve been collaborating with another scientist to finish up some of my graduate school work. However, unlike me, he doesn’t work with voles. He works with Daphnia. What are Daphnia, you ask? Daphnia are a genus of small crustaceans that are surprisingly cute. Also called water fleas because of their flea-like movement, there are more than 200 species of Daphnia that…
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Meet the platypus
Ah, the platypus. One of nature’s weirdest mammals, if I do say so myself. These small, roughly cat-sized mammals have a lot going on in their body: a duck-bill, a beaver-tail, and otter-feet. They honestly look like someone just taped a bunch of different animals together. And the first European scientists thought so too. Native…