First skeeter bite of the year: April 11. 😩

Throwback to when I was cuddling coyote pups near Chicago, part of my urban wildlife reporting. #toocute

Don't miss this fabulous lede in Dina Fine Maron's story about bacon bugs as a protein source in Madagascar! nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

Editing the list of countries I've visited and was totally psyched to see Holy See counts! #geographynerd

Not news for us moms, but interesting nonetheless! By Elizabeth Anne Brown for National Geographic
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how is it possible that this man only received a $250 fine?

this horrific story is, unfortunately, the natural end point to longstanding mass vilification of large carnivore species.

Thanks to JAWS (and tbh, everyone else out there) for your support. Ha, journalists cover meetings so you don't have to go!
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Meet the van Gogh gecko, named for its starry coloration. Story by Carrie Arnold for National Geographic nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

Recently, we were one of the first national outlets to report on the dozens of fish species mysteriously spinning and dying in the #FloridaKeys . Today, Bethany Augliere wrote a follow-up about an unprecedented rescue of rare smalltooth sawfish for National Geographic. nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

Beyond psyched that the National Geographic feature on Asian elephants, part of the Secrets of the Elephants project, is nominated in the Best Editorial Writing category of the The Webby Awards! The fabulous Srinath wrote the story and I edited. Woot! nationalgeographic.com/premium/graphi…

Sharing this information is risky for us but we feel the public should be aware of this, even if it comes at the expense of our project. Last summer, we captured the first observations of a cougar with kittens—the first evidence of a breeding population in Minnesota or the…

The spinning fish phenomenon continues...

EVERYONE still calls it Twitter.

(we tweet, not X-crete)

I grew up eating Easter ham. It's been a lot of years since I ate pigs (or cows or chickens) and never, never again. How could I study animal love and animal grief and eat animals? Always the phrase is in my mind: 'They want to live as much as I do.' #plantbased #Easter #animals

So interesting that Sweden also had witch trials in the 1600s, similar to Salem. And now I know what troll butter is! nationalgeographic.com/premium/articl…

This story inspired me to finally download the Merlin app—though I'm aware it's not always totally accurate. Read Kiley Price's excellent deep dive into how AI is informing bird apps—and helping conserve avians! National Geographic
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Why did the chrysotile asbestos ban take so long? I had no idea the mineral causes 40,000 U.S. deaths annually. nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…

Accurate.

I, for one, welcome our orca overlords. Melanie Haiken has the story on a potentially new population of oceanic killer whales off California and Oregon for National Geographic nationalgeographic.com/premium/articl…

The abnormal behavior has been seen in at least 44 species. The videos are sad to watch. nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl… National Geographic