Stories by Madeline McCurry-Schmidt

Madeline McCurry-Schmidt is a UC Davis graduate dedicated to writing about the biological sciences. She writes for the American Society of Animal Science and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment and blogs at How Animals Do It in her free time. She also enjoys Googling images of unicorn cows. Follow on Twitter @mad_ellen. Follow Madeline McCurry-Schmidt on Twitter @mad_ellen

Evolution

How to Catch a Shark

Researcher Eugenie Clark is 90 years old. Her office shelves are lined with gaping shark jaws. One is from a tiger shark. It bit her once—the only shark bite of her life.She was driving to talk to a student group, and the shark jaw sat on the passenger seat...

September 12, 2012 — Madeline McCurry-Schmidt

Evolution

Dr. Dove's Unicorns

Dr. W. Franklin Dove spent years of his career creating unicorns. Unicorn goats, unicorn cows. Even tri-horned animals roamed Dove’s barns.Dove created these strangely-horned animals by removing immature “horn buds” from the heads of young animals and implanting the horn buds to a different location on the skull...

November 29, 2011 — Madeline McCurry-Schmidt