People have been reporting sightings of mountain lions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for years and the Game Commission has always denied that they exist. Well, here we have, from Facebook, a photo taken 10/27 at Claysburg, PA, at southern end of Blair County. Officially, the last wild mountain lion in Pennsylvania was killed near …
Mauser Re-cocking
Much clearer video on Meta He does it with the stock on. I had no clue about this.
Meteor Crater History
AI but I was unaware of most of what it said.
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.