News stories tagged with "natural-selections"

(05/03/12) Curt Stager and Martha Foley do some imaginary spelunking and talk about the peculiar variations of animal life in caves.

(04/19/12) Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss the varieties and habits of American robins. There are half a dozen different kinds, including albinos. How do they arrive so early in the spring? Sometimes it's because they never leave.

(10/13/11) Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about eye shine, and why some animals' eyes reflect light and others' don't.

(07/23/09) Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about the Emerald Ash Borer, the insect behind those purple traps we're seeing hanging from trees all over the North Country.

(06/04/09) Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about trout biology and habitat in the Adirondacks.

(01/01/09) Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager look at climate change today, and in centuries past.

(06/14/07) Snapping turtles aren't really that vicious, unless they are provoked. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about their peculiar anatomy, safe ways (for turtle and human) to help them across highways, and more.

(12/21/06) The merlin, or pigeon hawk, has long been absent from the North Country. But nesting pairs began to be discovered again beginning in the 1990s. Curt Stager recounts an encounter with the returning hunter to Martha Foley.

(04/29/04) After a dip in bird populations, Curt Stager reports that numbers have increased, and in addition to birds that you'd expect to find in the city, some newcomers have moved into New York City's Central Park in the last few years, such as the peregrine falcon.

(04/22/04) Dr. Curt Stager talks with Martha Foley about another invasive species in the Great Lakes; the fishhook waterflea, named for its long, hooked tail. Cercopagis pengoi was first identified by Canadian scientists in early August of 1998. The waterflea breeds rapidly and competes with larval fish for their primary food source, zooplankton.