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Vanessa Czeszynski and Reid Brown, graduate students in Jim Cotner's lab, paddle to the monitoring station in…
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Picture a wolverine. Shrink it to half its size — a nd there you have a fisher. Fishers are closely related…
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The College of Biological Sciences recently announced its 2024 award winners for the John S. Anderson…
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In the summer of 2020, Yaniv Brandvain often found himself awake at 2 a.m., writing and recording videos in…
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Biologists are, by definition, keen observers of the natural world. They are students of life after all and…
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Believe it or not, fish can hear you. “Sound actually amplifies underwater if it breaks through the water’s…
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Wading in fish-free ponds is not for the faint of heart. Predaceous insects lurk under water lilies,…
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Victoria Simons is a Bemidji State University alumna who went on to graduate from Colorado State University…
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Taking a field biology course is an immersive experience. Wading into lakes, maneuvering through bogs and…