Sharon Oosthoek
YES Magazine: The Science Magazine for Adventurous Minds
Tasmanian Tiger: Lessons from the Past
YES Mag: The science magazine for adventurous mind, November/December 2011 by Sharon Oosthoek Aboriginal rock paintings show that thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, once lived all over Australia and on the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. At the time, they were the largest meat-eating marsupials in the world. But then humans hunted them to extinction. [...]
Painful Plants
YES Mag: The science magazine for adventurous minds, July/August, 2011 by Sharon Oosthoek What plant is so menacing it’s an outlaw in the United Kingdom? If you move it across state borders in the United States without a permit, you’re in trouble? The answer is giant hogweed. The rock band Genesis even wrote a song [...]
The Search for Shipwrecks
YES Mag: The science magazine for adventurous minds, December, 2010 by Sharon Oosthoek Over three thousand years ago, a cargo ship sunk off the coast of Turkey while carrying tin, copper, glass, and ivory hippopotamus teeth — likely gifts from one king to another. The boat rested on the sea floor for 3300 years before [...]
Screaming Tadpoles!
YES Mag: The science magazine for adventurous minds, Sept/Oct 2010 by Sharon Oosthoek If attacked, humans scream. So do chimps — ditto for lots of animals. And guess what? Tadpoles scream, too. The discovery surprised Argentinian frog expert Guillermo Natale, who thinks he may be the first to record tadpole screams. While biologists knew [...]
Wasp Detectives
YES Mag: The Science Magazine for Adventurous Minds, July/August, 2010 Wasp Detectives by Sharon Oosthoek A tiny black-winged wasp is about to become a detective in the case of the emerald ash borer, a beetle that has killed millions of ash trees in Canada and the United States. The shiny green beetles hitched a ride [...]
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