Why Evolution Is True – Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.

Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “twist,” is labeled as “

Here’s the second part of “duck doings” (first part here), this part recounting the attempt to capture Vashti and her brood before it got to the pond, where it would harassed out by the resid...

Voilà: my last batch of photos, this time a small selection from Norm Gilinsky, including two species we have in Botany Pond.  Norm’s captions are indented, and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them.

All of these photos were taken with an ordinary iPhone on June 1 on the eastern shore of

Welcome to Friday, June 12, 2026 and it’s National Loving Day, celebrating both romantic bonding but, more important, celebrating the day when

. . . the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving vs. Virginia. This decision struck down all ant...

I believe I’ve mentioned before that we’ve lost two broods of ducklings in Botany Pond this year: Vashti’s brood of 7 and then an unnamed duck’s brood of 12.  I was in Savannah, Georgia when Vashti’s brood came down on Sunday, April 19, and several people fed her and her brood, though of course the brood doesn’t each much at first because they’re still going on residual ...