Northern Gannet North Bay, Ingonish After my gannet post last month this is a good follow up pic. Prior gannett mentions.
Can I kill all humans with this?
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an AI scientist capable of generating scientific hypotheses, designing experiments and interpreting results. Making new biological discoveries with minimal human intervention is an important advance in self-driving laboratories. AI scientist autonomously generates and validates new biological discoveries
A fishing moment to remember.
When you get a visual take like that from something that big and hard to catch it is an event.
Nice Aerial Work
Cottonmouth!
Still the single most impressive Cottonmouth, we have ever seen! This snake was unbelievable in size, I really think part of the reason it’s so big it was likely heavily predating on small invasive pythons, given the area we found it in the Everglades. While we’ve seen thousands of cottonmouths and many big ones, …
Steens Mountain Slop
Steens Mountain rises fifty miles across southeastern Oregon’s high desert, a single tilted block of ancient lava that lifts almost a mile above the flat basin at its feet. Geologists count more than forty separate lava flows in its cliffs, laid down between fourteen and seventeen million years ago, with some layers over a thousand feet …
Nut Lore
Tree nuts are in season and falling. I am in gathering mode. They present this as a nut but technically it is not. Its history, however, is fascinating. I had no clue it existed.
Something for moose ticks?
USDA researchers in South Texas built a battery-powered sprayer, hid it at a fence crossing where wild nilgai antelope squeeze through the wire, and loaded the tank with billions of microscopic parasitic worms suspended in water. When an antelope walked through the gap, an ultrasonic sensor detected its movement, an onboard computer started the pump, …
The War on Wildlife Continues.
It has come to this already.
Thomas Henry Kelly, Jr., May 15, 1927- Oct 2, 2026
His site with a memorial from his daughter. On October 2, we lost one of the greatest of the Greatest Generation. Tom Kelly. The Colonel. Daddy to me. And ’Ol Tom to his grandchildren. It is impossible to capture 99 years or what he meant to our family, his friends, his troops and his loyal …