I never heard of this thing before. Maybe Steve has. Tons more video on the channel.
Raccoons as Pets? Some cons.
The greater risk lies in its interpretation. “People hear what they think is a scientific justification for having this animal as a pet,” O’Neil said. “People are not going to do enough digging to realize, Oh my God, this is a really bad idea.” I did not quite understand what she meant until I spoke with …
The Mystery of Scent
New University of Colorado Boulder research reveals that the wind itself plays an important role. As an odor travels, turbulent air changes the timing of odor whiffs in systematic ways, creating patterns that may be useful to animals navigating toward an odor source. The findings are part of the international Odor2Action research network, which brings together an …
Local Great Whites
Hello there Contender! One of the biggest great whites being tracked in the North Atlantic just pinged off Ingonish Beach in Cape Breton. Contender is a massive 13.8-foot roughly 1,653-pound male who has travelled more than 7,000 miles along the U.S. East Coast and Canada. Looks like he’s making his summer rounds through Atlantic Canada. …
Dumb as a Dodo?
But new research shows this image is misleading. The dodo was likely no less intelligent than any modern bird. It may also have possessed a rare and overlooked ecological trait: an adaptation to life in low light. Dodos probably weren’t that stupid Other Dodo posts.
An Arthur Allan
My Arthur Allan, signed 3 West Nile St, a shop I remember but was mostly fishing tackle and air guns in the 70’s and 80’s. Resleeved but a super job and handles superbly. Delightful gun and still used regularly. Not a name I know but a nice looking Scottish Gun.
FISHERS ON ‘SHROOMS
Researchers studying a forest predator known for killing porcupines discovered that nearly half its summer diet was mushrooms. The fisher, an animal famous for dismantling porcupines face-first and pulling muskrats from beaver lodges, was spending its Sierra Nevada summers eating fungi. The paper that documented it called the fisher an unexpected mycophagist. In plain language: …
A game changer if it pans out.
Life on Earth is thought to have emerged from the primordial ooze some four billion years ago. Now a provocative new study argues that this miraculous transition from chemistry to biology happened not once but twice. According to the study, bacteria and archaea, the first two branches of the tree of life, each sprung separately. …
Jade Teeth
More than a thousand years ago, Maya dental specialists were creating decorative tooth inlays with a level of precision that still impresses researchers today. They carefully drilled small cavities into living teeth and fitted pieces of jade, turquoise, pyrite, and other minerals into the openings. The work was not simply a rough attempt to push …
The History of Fieldstone Walls, New England
A very good video. While this topic has been covered at nauseam in other media this video does a very good job of presenting it in a clear concise manner. I was really surprised by the AI imagery. It looks surprisingly convincing even though you can tell it is AI. While in Massachusetts, I saw …