Every night in America, there are heroes patrolling our streets, keeping them safe and clean. They don’t do it for the fame or the glory. They don’t even do it for the soft, internal glow of altruism. They just do it because they’re Opossums and they’re hungry. As the only […]
If you ever need to pick a fight with a bunch of 17th and 18th century European nerds, I suggest asking them where they think babies come from. That’s almost guaranteed to get them all riled up. People around the world had been documenting their observations of and theories about […]
Douglas Russell, curator of avian eggs and nests at London’s Natural History Museum, was shuffling through an old file one day in 2011 or 2012 (the exact date is lost in the annals of time) when he happened upon a pamphlet stamped “NOT FOR PUBLICATION.” He immediately consumed this titillating, […]
