AI but I was unaware of most of what it said.
Art: Kuhn, Wardle, Sheppard
Source “The Warning Shadow” by William Robinson Leigh An outstanding use of moonlight. A painting by Arthur Wardle. You never know what’s lurking in the shadows. Wishing you a spooky, safe, and happy Halloween from all of us at the National Museum of Wildlife Art! Arthur Wardle (United Kingdom, 1864 – 1949), Silent Watchers, 1928. Oil …
Cartwheeling Dwarf Reed Snake
Per Wiki A 2023 study recorded a dwarf reed snake “cartwheeling” to escape when startled.[5] The rolling motion is four times faster than the snake’s normal slither,[7] reaching speeds of around 9 miles per hour (14 km/h),[8] and requires a great deal of energy, limiting its use to emergencies such as an immediate threat.[9] The authors …
An Odd Shotgun Design
Sulun Auslof The Sulun Arms Auslof is a 12-gauge break-action repeating shotgun based on the 1924 Herman Alofs reloading system. I never heard of it before.
A First-Ever Discovery For Carnivores
Terrestrial predators like leopards and wolves maul, kill and devour their prey using sharp claws and canine teeth. The idea that some of them would pause to soak their food, the way we might soak lentils or chia seeds, may seem strange. That’s why, when a camera trap in Spain recorded a wild female Iberian …
Pucker Time, Nov 3 2026
I had a startle with a Great White Shark on November 3rd, 2026. We were diving at Birchy Head, down about 14m, when I noticed, in the distance (~40-foot vis and 10°C), a large shape heading fast towards me. When it was about 30-25 feet away, I realized it was a White. It had its …
Rendezvous with Rama: The Aliens Who Never Noticed Us
I am not a huge fan of AI imagery but it was put to good use here. A movie is supposed to be being made but it may not happen. In the meantime, this is a good substitute. I remembered the gist of the story but a lot of it I was hazy on. …
Welcome to the Zeptoverse
The Zeptoverse is an informal scientific term for the realm of nature explored at the scale of a zeptometre (10⁻²¹ metres, or a billionth of a trillionth of a metre), roughly 100 billion times smaller than an atom. [1, 2] Key Details of the Discovery The Breakthrough: In November 2026, researchers working on the upgraded …
How do people figure stuff like this out?
Just amazing.
The beginnning of the end?
AI is already used to write books and magazine articles. AI is replacing me. Ever since Google started using AI in its search engine, the number of daily views of my blog have been cut in half. Yes, that sounds ominous. The Google search engine has a new feature that creates images based on any …