Scientists are using isotopes to answer a surprising variety of questions about the world, according to University of Cincinnati Professor Brooke Crowley. Isotopes are different forms of the same ...

Scientists are using isotopes to answer a surprising variety of questions about the world, according to University of Cincinnati Professor Brooke Crowley. Isotopes are different forms of the same ...

Reader Todd Mackinaw recently admired how the great horned owl can thrive from the Brooks Range in Alaska all ... bones, fur and other parts of their meals. Scientists and schoolkids pick those ...

bones, and all. “What is an owl pellet,” Brundige asked the youngsters, as Santos prepared and set up the dissection project. “It’s barf,” yelled out a participant, to excited giggles. “Yes. So, what ...

One of the most common is the Barred owl. This owl is easily identifiable with a song that sounds like it is saying “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all ... pellets and used a bone ...

Owl Pellet dissections ... and external fish anatomy. Educators explore scale type, digestive and respiratory systems and ecological adaptations such as fin shape and caudle peduncle. Students remove ...

They spent part of the class picking apart and looking closely at something called owl pellets ... be hidden in their pellets. Things like small "skulls, pelvises, leg bones and a bunch of ...

The pellets are indigestible food parts that are regurgitated by owls and consist mostly of hair and bone. In the center is her cousin, Winston Ruffini, 4, who closely watches. (Tania Barricklo ...

squeezing all the remaining contents tightly together into a hard pellet. This mass of undigested parts often contains fur, bones, insect exoskeletons, feathers, claws and teeth. The owl then ...

Sometimes learning can be downright stinky, and when the lesson of the day is dissecting owl pellets, you can take ... expel their prey’s indigestible bones, hair and feathers in the opposite ...

“The kids would get to dissect one of his pellets because owls can’t digest all the bones and the fur when they eat,” Tekiela explained. “They regurgitate these pellets, which we then collect, ...

The bones come from owl pellets that are regularly examined as ... but the difference between a deer or house mouse isn’t all that clear because they’re so similar in size and shape.