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Blog: Marine Mammals of Rhode Island, Part 16, All About Pinnipeds

  By David Gregg October 21, 2022 December 19, 2022 Animals, Biodiversity, Education

by Robert D. Kenney Three of the previous installments in this Marine Mammals of Rhode Island series have been about seals that occur in our region—harbor seals, harp seals, and gray seals. Gray seals were also the subject of an article in the Fall 2022… Continue reading

Blog: Possible plesiosaur in Barrington River

  By David Gregg April 14, 2022 April 14, 2022 Animals, Invasives

On April 1, scientists from the Natural History Survey traveled to the Barrington River to investigate a possible Plesiosaur sighting. “We’ve wondered why reptiles like diamondback terrapins thrived in 100 Acre Cove but nowhere else…now maybe we know,” said URI herpetologist Jauncy Farakker. If the… Continue reading

REVIEW: Amphibians of Rhode Island by Christoper J. Raithel

  By David Gregg March 10, 2020 November 11, 2020 Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Natives, Naturalists, Resources

By Scott Buchanan, Ph.D., Herpetologist, RIDEM Division of Fish & Wildlife … As I neared my home about midnight, there was virtually no amphibian activity, and so a stout frog sitting in the road near an area of unpromising oak woodland could not help but… Continue reading

Marine Mammals of Rhode Island, Part 14, Gray Seal

  By David Gregg January 14, 2020 November 11, 2020 Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Education

by Robert D. Kenney Gray seals (“grey” seals in Canada and Europe) are the second most likely seal species to be encountered in Rhode Island, after harbor seals (harbor seals are covered in installment 5 in this series). Unlike harbor seals, which are found in… Continue reading

Marine Mammals of Rhode Island, Part 13, Gray Whale

  By David Gregg December 11, 2019 November 11, 2020 Animals, Conservation, Education

by Robert D. Kenney I know what you’re saying—“He’s really gone off the deep end now! There are no gray whales in the Atlantic.” That’s sort of true (take your pick about which part), but not entirely. In May of 2010 marine biologists conducting a… Continue reading

Where Rhode Island Excels: the Natural History of Rhode Island State Symbols

  By David Gregg February 20, 2019 November 11, 2020 Animals, Biodiversity, Education, Historical, Plants

by Stephen Hale Every state has a list of official state symbols, but Rhode Island is unique in having an official state appetizer. At least seventeen of Rhode Island’s state symbols relate to plants and animals and rocks (see table and images). Relative to the… Continue reading

Marine Mammals of Rhode Island, Part 12, Humpback Whale

  By David Gregg January 22, 2019 November 11, 2020 Animals, Conservation, Education

by Robert D. Kenney Humpback whales were not scheduled to be the next installment in this series, but a lot of things have been happening recently, so it seemed like a timely idea to let them cut in line. [Editor’s Note: this was sent to… Continue reading

Kiss Your Ash Goodbye…No, Really!

  By David Gregg July 25, 2018 September 28, 2022 Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Invasives, Plants

Way back in 2009 I wrote a blog about Emerald Ash Borer at a time when it was becoming clear it would indeed break out of attempted containment areas in the Mid-west and spread across the east. Well, since then we’ve watched it move inexorably… Continue reading

Marine Mammals of Rhode Island, Part 11, Common Dolphin

  By David Gregg December 14, 2017 December 19, 2022 Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Education

by Robert Kenney Mother Nature is never quite as neat as we’d like her to be. Common dolphins are a good case in point; over the years they have given me quite a headache. Although I first learned as a graduate student that there was… Continue reading

Lone Star Ticks vs. Chiggers

  By David Gregg March 15, 2017 November 11, 2020 Animals, Climate, Education

by David Gregg The $5 term for the ticks and mosquitoes, no-see-ums, deer flies, horse flies, and all that literally bug us while we’re enjoying our outdoors pursuits, collectively, is “haematophagous arthropods.” Mites are in the Acari, a sub-class of the Arachnida (spiders and kin)… Continue reading

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