Published July 5, 2015 Madagascar labradorite This is from Madagascar. This mineral is iridescent. It has its own mineral term named for the shimmering blues and greens – […]
Published November 3, 2015 Wild and Woolly Winter In 1948 Dr. Curran, then curator of insects at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, began a tradition of traveling […]
Published October 13, 2015 Burning bush A native of Asia, Euonymus alatus was introduced as a garden plant around 1860 to the U.S. One of the main reasons […]