This episode explores new research, which has found that the wing length of the monarch butterfly has evolved in response to migration habits.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘of a butterfly in el barrio or a stranger in paradise’ by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Episode 271: Painting Petals
Episode 270: Lost in the Night Light
Episode 269: Monster Galaxies
Episode 268: Under Wandering Light
Episode 267: Echoes in the Earth
Episode 266: The Nature of the Selfie
Episode 265: The Earth Rises to Meet the Sea
Episode 264: Chromatic Change
Episode 263: Renewal in Green
Episode 262: At the Edge of the Lakes
Episode 261: Cool Roofs in the City
Episode 260: The Red Crater Clock
Episode 259: The Blackest Wind
Episode 258: Rats and Restoration
Episode 257: A Promise of Lavender
Episode 256: Wated Mussels
Episode 255: Wobbling Stars and Super Earths
Episode 254: Shadows in the Sea
Episode 253: Seismic Snow
Episode 252: The Weakening Pulse of Life
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