The Wild Life

This past August as I sat below an old oak tree while drinking my morning cup of coffee and looking out on a glassy Lake Darling in Alexandria, Minnesota, something fell from the sky and landed at my feet. Small and curled up like a slightly puff green and yellow sour gummy worm. It’s face made it look like a Pokémon, or like one of those smiley face antenna toppers. Two hours later, another fell in the same exact spot. If I didn’t already know what it was, I would think it was a caterpillar of some sort.

Read more and see bonus visuals here: https://thewildlife.blog/2019/08/14/is-it-a-worm-is-it-a-wasp-no-its-the-elm-sawfly/

In the skies across Minnesota (and much of the eastern US and southeastern Canada, for that matter), roams a fierce and agile predator, capable of taking down prey you would never imagine—and some many wouldn’t dare to try at themselves.

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Read the transcript of this episode, see some art, and awesome videos at https://thewildlife.blog/2019/07/11/the-dragonhunter/

This is circle of life—or at least an ugly, albeit necessary, curve of it. This is the life of the American Carrion Beetle.

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Read the transcript of this episode at https://thewildlife.blog/2018/08/03/carrion-my-wayward-beetle/

In this episode, Devon and Richard talk snow, Frozen 2, whether or not water has memory (and if it's good or bad), the Big Bang, the formation of planets, the secret role of bacteria, why snowflakes are intricately symmetrical, and more!

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Music heard on this episode:

Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=deliberate+thought

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We Always Thought the Future Would Be Kind of Fun by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/darkglow/

Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

We’ve all heard of snakes on a plane, but this time of year, snakes are slipping their way into all sorts of unexpected places—like basements of the unsuspecting.

Read the blog version and find the links mentioned in the episode here: https://thewildlife.blog/2019/11/30/snakes-in-the-basement/

Don’t let their cute little face fool you. The carnivorous Least Weasel is fierce, eating up to 60% of its body weight in food per day.

Weasel vs Seagull

Weasel War Dance

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https://thewildlife.blog/2018/02/24/the-least-weasel-is-the-most-extra/

In our first episode back in over a month, we are revamping our Phylum series by focusing in on another tier of classification: Class.

Welcome to our new miniseries.

Chitons belong to the Phylum Mollusca, along with bivalves, gastropods, and cephalopods.

They may seem simple, but there is a beautiful complexity in their story and existence if you know where to look.

Welcome to Class.

Happy Halloween! In this super special, unexpected, and therefore super last minute holiday treat (and trick), Devon reads a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's famous short story, A Tell Tale Heart, that you undoubtedly were coerced into reading in high school. In our somewhat modernized version, we get a different, more wildlife oriented ending that turns out to be the most opposite from horror as you can get.

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While we're on a brief hiatus, we wanted to take a trip back in time to revisit our Season 2 premier from February 2019.

In this episode, Devon and Richard attempt to settle an age old argument between them by enlisting the help of renowned biochemist, professor, and author, Dr Nick Lane of the University College of London.

The debate: is there complex alien life somewhere out there, or is it improbable that there is anything more than cellular life. We look to the improbable origins of complex life on earth in search of answers.