Episode 8 of #EvolutionEvents bears similarities to our last article and may answer some questions you might have had! Now, many of us probably know that whales, dolphins and porpoises are mammals. Marine mammals! This means they originated, a long time ago, from the same ancestors as other mammals, like us! To discover why cetaceans are […]
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#EvolutionEvents Episode 7 brings us to an amazing phenomenon of evolution, that sometimes sounds wilder than fiction! First we introduce a term called “convergent evolution“. The principle is what it sounds like; evolution of different species moving towards a similar place and “converging”. One of the most widely known and talked about examples of this […]
For #EvolutionEvents Episode 6, we turn to birds and dinosaurs! Birds, seabirds and otherwise, are critical to healthy ecosystems in the Salish Sea. A famous species in the Salish Sea is pictured here (right image), the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Many of you may already know that today’s birds are “modern dinosaurs”, sharing high relation […]
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! At Five Star we are proud of the many women we had the privilege to work with over the years. These amazing women contribute to science and research plus provide inspiration to the next generation of female scientists. Today we want to thank all our […]
Welcome to episode 5 of Evolution Events! Who can guess what our subject is today? Today we look at the interesting species that is the gray whale, and their classification in the modern animal kingdom. A gray whale (left image) is a baleen whale, just like the humpback whale (right image) and other species such […]