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  • (Brocken Inaglory, Wikimedia Commons)
    Turtle Moms And Their Decoy Nests
    Walker Rhea
    Every summer, scores of trained volunteers scan coastal beaches, looking for sea turtle nests. When found, the nests are marked and watched, preventing predators or curious humans from finding the eggs.
  • Detail from the title page of Species Plantarum, 1753, by Carl Linnaeus.
    Nomenclature
    LuAnn Johnson
    Common names of plants vary greatly, but officially, each plant has two Latin names.