Check out this incredibly cool research on the evolution of avian mobility. With rad xray videos to boot!

Today we mourn the loss of our friend and colleague Dave Johnson, Curator of Fishes. Dave was a world-renowned comparative morphologist and ichthyologist who joined our Fish Division's curatorial staff in 1983.  He was by nature a collaborator and had many co-authors worldwide.

The BLM is getting ready to sign the Record of Decision for the Western Solar Plan. Very unpopular plan will weaken regulations for solar developers who never care about the resources they damage.

BLM seeks input on proposed lithium exploration project | Bureau of Land Management blm.gov/announcement/b…

Anybody who thinks it's ok to put a solar farm in a place like this 'for the greater good' has bumped their head.

#GarWeek must be gaining traction. There were 14,500 people who completed in the Gar Quiz. Now that's gar-gantuan! Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation GarLab 📷sabrinazoarium

Landscapes we thought would always be there are now on the chopping block, This is the east side of Bare Mountain leading into Crater Flat, Nevada. NV Energy is planning on building the Greenlink West Transmission line here with 180 foot towers every 1/8th mile.

My wonderful friend, Emma Greig, tragically passed on Christmas Eve after a cancer battle. Emma was the Project Leader of Project FeederWatch at Cornell Lab. She was also a prolific field ornithologist, and I was lucky to work with her on many fairywren projects. 1/2

Last year we raised $2800 to create a scholarship for girls, women, and gender non conforming people interested in herpetology. I'm so honored to introduce you to our awardees.

And so it begins. The survey stakes go up for Greedlink West Transmission Project, a needless giant remote high-voltage line to carry natural gas generation to AI and data centers in Nevada. Intact wild basins like the Amargosa will be carved up. A prairie falcon flew over.

Another result of the stupid decision of so many. Not that this was funding/would be funding many scientists’ (including our team’s) research. SMH. “National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders” npr.org/sections/shots…

As solar farms sprout up in Southern Nevada, concern for desert tortoises grows - Las Vegas Sun News lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jan/…

With the Trump admin deleting critical data from health agency websites, there are many independent efforts to archive the data. Maggie Koerth is putting together a guide to help locate where all the data is being backed up. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Avian Flu is increasingly in the news, and we wanted to remind folks that the Cornell Lab has an Avian Flu web page that they update periodically with the latest information about this disease and the birds that are impacted by it. 1/7

Electric Eels (Electrophorus sp.) aren’t actually eels at all - they belong to the order Gymnotiformes and are a species of knifefish. They use their strong electrical discharges for stunning prey, in defense, and for communication between individuals.

If you’re a scientist and choose to abide by this you are not a scientist, you are a propagandist.

On Data Purge Eve, many people stayed up late to save the CDC website. Charles Gaba ✡️ downloaded the whole thing. 👑 A group of us are working to make these preserved data an accessible & publicly available resource. More to come, but get started here 👇🏻 acasignups.net/25/02/02/llink…

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These stories are heartbreaking. And also make me furious. Putting people and our wild heritage at risk.