environment, genetics, migration, monarch butterflies, natural selection

Unveiling Nature’s Mysteries: The Intriguing Role of White Spots in Migrating Monarch Butterflies

Imagine yourself standing in a meadow, gazing up at the sky as thousands of butterflies flutter in perfect harmony, venturing on a journey to their annual migration. Among these vibrant orange and black monarch butterflies, you might notice some with an intriguing feature: white spots adorning their wings.  These white-spotted monarchs have long fascinated researchers ...

Viena Abdon

A monarch butterfly sitting on a juniper bush.

Drone Cam: 64,000 Green Sea Turtles Migrating

Drone footage of 64,000 green sea turtles migrating en masse to Raine Island in Australia is captivating internet users around the world. The video is part of a research project aimed at conducting a population survey of the turtles. Raine Island is the largest green sea turtle rookery in the world. The migration of green sea ...

Jessica Kneipp

A green sea turtle on a beach.

Humans Migrated to Mongolia Much Earlier Than Previously Believed

Stone tools uncovered in Mongolia by an international team of archaeologists indicate that modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago, according to a new University of California, Davis, study. The date is about 10,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously believed that humans migrated to Mongolia. The site also points to a ...

Troy Oakes

Mongolia's Tolbor Valley.

German Migration: How Frankfurt Natives Learned to Adjust

A few years back, Frankfurt in East Germany was a quiet little town with little to no foreigners. Thus. immigration was not an issue. After Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to allow refugees to come into the country in 2015, the city saw a massive influx of migrants. Today, the natives of Frankfurt and the new ...

Armin Auctor

A migrant to Germany.

Los Angeles’s Mass Lynching of Chinese Men and Boys in 1871

October 24, 1871, is the date of Los Angeles’s mass lynching, one of its greatest unsolved murders. During a cool fall night, a violent lynch mob of around 500 people entered Chinatown to attack, rob, and murder at least 18 Chinese men and boys. The events of that night made it the largest mass lynching in American history. ...

Troy Oakes

On October 24, 1871, a violent lynch mob of around 500 entered Chinatown to attack, rob, and murder at least 18 Chinese men and boys.