Earth dog work in Iceland? The blower was an unexpected twist. 🇮🇸Taking care of invasive mink in Iceland Facebook video A better short video.
Month: June 2025
2,500 lightning strikes
June 1, 2025 An anomalous weather system hit the Southern Los Padres last night generating over 2,500 lightning strikes & 4 small fires on the southwestern end of the Mount Pinos Ranger District. In country accessibile only by foot, Los Padres firefighters tooled up and hiked in to the fires arriving around 10pm. The 8-acre …
Novel Sounds
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Swordfish Swimming
Mesmerizing. Another on Facebook. William Goadby Lawrence 1950’s Broadbil Swordfish
Tigers are back in Kazakhstan after 70 years!
Tigers are back in Kazakhstan after 70 years! Thanks to #NaturesHeroes in Ile-Balkhash, Bodhana and Kuma, made their journey to a new home last year, marking the start of an ambitious conservation project. Communities are rewilding ecosystems, restoring species and organising eco-tourism to support their reintroduction. Wereld Natuur Fonds – WWF Steve was there …
Badass Bear
The King of the Khutzeymateen – Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Reacher, the single largest grizzly bear I have ever seen. Stay tuned for more photos of this reverse-mohawk giant that we guessed was 10+ feet tall (the sedge grass where he’s standing is almost 2 feet tall) and might weigh close to …
The Creepy World of Animal Cloning
More than 80 percent of Americans consider human cloning “morally wrong,” although 12 percent now approve of it—a number that has ticked up over the past two decades. The Creepy World of Animal Cloning Creepy is right. I hardly know where to begin. There was so much shocking info in this article. I had no idea cloning …
Chadwick Ram
The Chadwick Ram has legendary status among sheep hunters. It is often touted as the finest trophy ever taken in North America. That is sheep hunter bias but it is exceptional in how much more impressive it is vs the ones under it. In my perspective, it is rare because of that. It is an outlier for sure and …
eDNA from the air
A simple air filter running for hours, days or weeks can pick up signs of nearly every species that grows or wanders nearby. “When we started, it seemed like it would be hard to get intact large fragments of DNA from the air. But that’s not the case. We’re actually finding a lot of informative …
Lovecraft Elephant
Seeing this without the other end looks so Lovecraft. Ross Featherston My first thought as well.