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 91: Unlocking Letters
Episode 90: Fishy Traits
Episode 89: Seismic Sounds
Episode 88: Ancient Shell Sounds
Episode 87: Foraging Fungi
Episode 86: Plastic Seagrass
Episode 85: Elephants from Space
Episode 84: Melting Lakes
Episode 83: When the Mangroves Disappeared
Episode 82: Lunar Flow
Episode 81: Damming Loss
Episode 80: The Smell of Coral
Episode 79: A Complexity of Life
Episode 78: Mercury Sinking
Episode 77: Lunatic Engine
Episode 76: A Rolling Wind Gathers the Moss
Episode 74: Tidal Evolution
Episode 73: Bellwether Beetles
Episode 72: Circles Beneath the Sea
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