Sharks & Skulls, What’s Not To Like?
My, What A Lovely Skull You Have As I mentioned in my Year in Review post, I’ve started writing occasional pieces for the The Week. My first article takes us to the office of a forensic anthropologist,...
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Bittel Me Lately: Vicious Starfish, Barbary Sheep, & Weaponized Wabbits
Never miss another bangarang again! How Do You Weaponize a Rabbit? | “There are four major infectious agents that officials fear terrorists will turn into potent bioweapons. The first three you know —...
View ArticleBangarang Science & The Double Awesome Opossum
Welcome Readers of TheDodo.com! If you’ve just read the comic Adam Wilson and I made for TheDodo.com and want to learn more about the opossum, then you’ve come to the right place. (If you have no idea...
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Hello, Nat Geo
Hey, you guyyyys. After yet another long radio silence on this crumbling blog, I return with good news. I’ve started doing some stuff for National Geographic’s Newswatch and Weird & Wild blogs. Oh...
View ArticleHamster Cannibalism & Butterfly Bombs!
4 New Stories, For Your Reading Pleasure Bombs for Butterflies: There’s one really easy way to save the monarch butterfly migration, and it involves guerrilla warfare. OnEarth Polar Bears… FROM SPACE:...
View ArticleSquirrels Make Mushroom Jerky
Squirrels might be the most boring animals in the world. They live in parks and universities and backyards, they eat acorns and pilfer bird feeders. Hell, you probably don’t even brake if you see one...
View ArticleLeeches For Halloween!
LEECHES! Roughly half of my stories could be classified as Halloween-y, but I thought I’d share this one in particular. Everybody thinks they know what leeches are about, what with the sucking and the...
View ArticleBMT on Nat Geo News: Sea Monsters
We’re gonna need a bigger boat Thanks to Jurassic Park, we all know dinosaurs were the name of the game during the Jurassic Period. But at sea, it was the Age of the Ichthyosaurs. What the blazes is...
View ArticleBMT on onEarth: Anacondas
The Anaconda and the Damage Done In case you missed it, Discovery Channel recently aired a “documentary” that promised to show an anaconda “eating” a man “alive.” If you can’t tell by all those...
View ArticleBMT on Nat Geo News: Animal Mimicry
Masters of disguise Animal mimicry may be one of my favorite things. I mean, a bird that pretends to be a caterpillar? An octopus that impersonates a sea snake? A praying mantis that looks like a...
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