Drawn primarily from histories written by the Aztec people, this book shares their perspectives from before, during and after the Spanish invasion © by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Mastodon | Post.News | CounterSocial | Twitter As a child, I was endlessly fascinated by the most dominant aboriginal civilizations of the…

Humans and all other living beings that occupy the planet today are the products of 4.6 billion years of evolution on Earth © by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Mastodon | Post.News | CounterSocial | Twitter Where did we come from? This is a big question that has kept philosophers, thinkers…

Let’s indulge our inner child and ask the question we’ve all asked when we were small © by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Mastodon | Post.News | CounterSocial | Twitter Now that the holidays and the huge variety of food overindulgences that accompany them are rapidly approaching, I thought I’d talk…

More conservation good news: a macaw species once thought to be Extinct-In-The-Wild is now recovering its numbers, thanks to intensive conservation efforts © by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Mastodon | Post.News | CounterSocial | Twitter I’ve recently shared several stories about Critically Endangered macaw species and the intensive conservation efforts…

Microparticles recovered from the guts of some seabirds living in Monterey Bay exhibited estrogen-like effects that have the potential to disrupt normal hormone functions © by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Mastodon | Post.News | CounterSocial | Twitter Microplastic pollution is widespread in the waters of California’s Monterey Bay, according to…

An important reminder that the ecology of the past, even the recent past, can be very different from what we see today © by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Mastodon | Post.News | CounterSocial | Twitter Ancient parrot bones are relatively common finds in archaeological sites in the American Southwest. Many…

The shocking behind-the-scenes story of climate deniers’ fight to discredit climate change science over the past twenty-five years, told by one of the world’s foremost climate scientists who lived it © by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Mastodon | Post.News | CounterSocial | Twitter Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future. Tomato…

This adventurous video documents the variety of techniques and tools used to count wild wolves in Washington state’s annual wolf census © by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Mastodon | Post.News | CounterSocial | Twitter At the end of every year, wildlife officials in Washington state count its wild wolves. This…

Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America © by GrrlScientist for Forbes | Mastodon | Post.News | CounterSocial | Twitter Black wolves are among the most iconic animals at Yellowstone National Park. People…