You see it for a second in the headlights. A pale, pointed face, a gray body, a long bare tail sliding under the fence. Someone in the car says “possum,” someone else says “opossum,” and then a friend from Melbourne says that is not a possum at all. All three of you are a little…
The Lake Titicaca frog wears its lungs on the outside. Why its baggy skin is brilliant design, how it breathes with push-ups, why it is endangered, and who is helping.
African rain frog is not one frog. Meet the desert, black, and bushveld rain frogs, and learn why they are so round, why one squeaks, and why they stay wild.
Goblincore is the aesthetic of loving the parts of nature that nobody puts on a postcard. Moss on a damp garden wall. A snail crossing a sidewalk at its own unhurried pace. A cluster of small brown mushrooms pushing up through leaf litter after rain. A coat pocket holding one acorn, one flat grey pebble,…
A guide to the five cute aesthetics worth knowing by name, the four variables that separate them, and how to work out which one is actually yours.
