Gaines: CSI Natural History Museum

Gaines: CSI Natural History Museum

Writing in The Atlantic and Undark, James Gaines tracks the fate of contraband taxidermied animals. Some have an educational function at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. Others are used in basic research. A few end up in court—on the side of law enforcement, of course....

Frischman: Snakes on a Blog

Python eggs are bigger than meatballs, and Carol Frischman shows ’em off on her blog, This Wild Life A World of Pets, Nature & Science. The pictures come with a thoroughly reported, well-referenced, thoughtful piece on what to do, if anything, about invasive...