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Pacific Salmon

Pacific salmon
Photo credit: Milton Love, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation

Three main things must occur for the young salmon, called a smolt, to prepare for life in the salty ocean. Read More ›
Living Waters
Image source: Living Waters, via Illustra Media.

Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry

The ability to smell is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and sifting a torrent of input data quickly. Read More ›
Monarch butterfly

Marvelous Migrations at All Scales

Living things are on the move everywhere. Why do some of them go to great lengths to migrate, while others stay put? Read More ›
Blattoidae_-_Fossil

A Smell Test for Design v. Evolutionary Explanations

One of the reasons cockroaches are so successful is their keen sense of smell. Read More ›

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