Sure, Halloween has its spooky skeletons—but have you ever wondered what 5.5 million species of bugs have? Exoskeletons! Other animals have exoskeletons, including crabs and lobsters. Bug exoskeletons come in all sorts of creepy and cool shapes, sizes, colors, and materials. Join this month’s Junior Ranger Program to learn about these... Read more »

It will be a month since the September equinox, and the nights will have grown longer than the days, inviting the spirits of old to revisit us. Drawing from ancient European traditions, the annual rites of Halloween are near. Here at China Camp State Park, Native American communities observed the movements... Read more »

For October’s selection, we’ll take a deep dive into David Mendell’s fascinating book, The Network of Life. Mindell, a senior researcher at U.C. Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, presents a new perspective on evolution and its implications for life on Earth. While evolution has traditionally been viewed as a branching... Read more »