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 71: Better than Earth
Episode 70: Zombie Fires
Episode 69: Wild Offerings
Episode 68: Symbiotics Senses
Episode 67: Rediscovered Frogs
Episode 66: At Loggerheads with the Storm
Episode 65: An Outbreak of Flooding
Episode 64: The Tragedy of the Bees
Episode 63: Artificial Galaxies
Episode 62: The Quiet Sun
Episode 61: The Mortality of Trees
Episode 60: Forecasting Drought
Episode 59: Roadside Pollination
Episode 58: Plastic Lobsters
Episode 57: Gnawing the Permafrost
Episode 56: Lost in the Glow
Episode 55: Trees of (Urban) Life
Episode 54: Unearthing the Clay House
Episode 53: A Snake in the Wetlands
Episode 52: Celestial Cloudscapes
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