Rare species

Dear Senator/Representative, My name is Shae Bauchens, and I am writing regarding my deep concern about how the destruction of coral reefs is eventually going to affect our every day lives as human beings, and how creating laws to stop overfishing will eliminate this issue all together. I did not grow up on a beach town, but my family and I love spending time in the sea. I love the ocean, and could not imagine what my life would be without it. It has played a huge role in my life since I was…

The Scorpion The Scorpion, being one of the most deadly animals in the US, is an animal that most people don’t like to think about. The Scorpion, at first look, can be terrifying or frightening for some people, others just think they are disgusting. What those people don’t see is the beauty inside the scorpion, instead they judge it by the outside. The meaning can be a little stern at times, but a scorpion isn’t always the sweetest animal. Sometimes you just have to dig a little deeper to see…

“Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me.” ~Anthony Douglas Williams (qtd. in “apna talks”). Despite facing humans animals are still surviving us today and continue to live on. One animal that has proven to survive the human race is the sea turtles. According to the (Washington Post) more than half of the sea turtles on earth have swallowed some type of plastic. The article goes on to say that sea turtles get the plastic confused with jellyfish. They get it…

What kind of Food they eat and what eats them. Also about their habitat and other animals around them. To start with , a Komodo Dragon is the strongest animal in its own ecosystem. They don't really interact with there own species. They don't interact with there own species unless they need to breed. Sometimes they will eat together but not often. Komodo Dragons are more of isolated animals they don't really care for their…

branch of science, because evolution itself is inevitable as organisms are constantly changing and adapting to their surroundings. Variation is a given variable, but the way these organisms change is determined on the amount of success a particular species has in reproducing and passing on their genes, over time the surviving genes become the dominant or favourable traits. There are two well-known theories in relation to…

Anne Fadiman’s “Odd Shelf” is filled with books about polar explorations, both successful and non-successful, whose “subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library.” To disperse the books throughout her larger collection, into the memoir section, or the science section, would be wrong. I have an “Odd Shelf” too. They are filled with books on topics that seem to have nothing to do with the rest of my collection. These books represent a lifelong interest of mine, and so they…

An article in the Smithsonian describes how scientists in a Chinese genomics institute used a common gene editing enzyme called TALENs to create micropigs, which weigh about 33 pounds at maturity. These micropigs were first created to study the human stomach bacteria and new medications, which can help answer questions about the human body itself. By using an enzyme to stop the pigs from growing, the researchers altered their DNA, which would then be passed down to their offspring. This is…

Pycnopodia Helianthoides, which is known as the sunflower seastar, is an extraordinary star fish found in the northeast Pacific. It is one of the largest sea stars in the world, and has a maximum arm-span of 1m (Lambert, 2001). This intertidal organism has many amazing traits that most other sea stars do not possess. I will discuss these unique characteristics throughout my essay. Sunflower seastars have 16 to 24 limbs and are radially symmetrical. It is also the heaviest known sea star on the…

Humans have naturally formed settlements to survive since they have been on the earth. As humankind has progressed society have become more advanced and organized. Within advanced society there has to be leadership, government laws and law enforcers. Family is the structure and core of all societies. In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver normal human life is transformed to fit into the new society where everybody is the same. Lois Lowry’s experience with her father's old age and dementia helps to…

For many years scientists have been trying to discover new evidence that we humans are the common ancestors of homosapians from the past. Scientists went from researching and studying artifacts to examining ancient fossils. So far the evidence that has been uncovered highly support the fact that we are related to the “humans” of the past. Homosapians have evolved rapidly over the past three million years to what we are now, modern humans. It can be proven from primary sources that have been…