Forward!

 culling out the slow
cursorial predators
Darwin's deputies

old wisdom

stubborn apple tree

not trusting that frost is past

ignores Spring sunshine

niche

artiodactyls
evolved on Africa's veldt
learned plankton's green, too

outstanding

unlike the vagus
nine of ten cranial nerves
are all in your head

pond

pond surface reflects
eiders in breeding plumage
looking to get down

dentition

ambush predators
can deploy heavy weapons
cheetahs can't afford

container for the thing contained

if cell membranes were
ATP-permeable
Darwin would patch them 

aquaculture II

filter-feeding clams
nourish massive walruses
 baleen-by-proxy

aquaculture

filter-feeding clams
nourish massive walruses
who've farmed out baleen

correlation

startling new paper

shows research causes cancer

in lab animals

checkpoint

CTLA4
sets killer-T cells at ease
"These are not the droids..."

amphibious assault

marauding mollusc
chomped my tomato seedlings
by cover of night

impoverished diet

ship-worms, like termites
rely on their symbiotes
to fix nitrogen

amphibious

marauding molluscs
chomped my tomato seedlings
by cover of night

don't just pick

T. rex, cajoling

his hatchling to dig right in
urges: "Eat Prey, Love"

bonus

immune amnesia
after measles infection
boosts mortality

crown of creation

we're latecomers here
multicellularity
needs free oxygen

self-regard

beautiful species
between apes and the angels
fractal at our core

pro-biotic

to drive early life
self-assembling vesicles
sustained gradients

unindicted co-conspirators

methanogenic
symbiotes in ungulates
stoke up the Greenhouse