DNA evidence for Yukon woolly mammoths and horses 5,000 years ago The analysis reveals that mammoths and horses were already in steep decline prior to the climatic instability, but they did not immediately disappear due to human overhunting as previously thought. In fact, the DNA evidence shows that both the woolly mammoth and North American horse persisted …
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Utah Considers a Ban on Wireless Trail Cams During Hunting Season
Utah Considers a Ban on Wireless Trail Cams During Hunting Season I sent this around and Steve thought it was worth blogging. My friends have cell cams and they dominate the market having replaced other trail cams very quickly. arizona-trail-camera-ban There has been lots of abuse, especially in the southwest, around water holes. I have …
Cheatgrass, Pterosaurs
Invasive annual grasses have increased eightfold in area in the Great Basin region since 1990, the team found. Smith and colleagues estimate that areas dominated by the grasses have grown more than 2,300 square kilometers annually, a rate of take-over proportionally greater than recent deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Invasive grasses are taking over the …
Saw Whets are Sweeties
northern-saw-whet-owl-migration-research I was coming home about an hour after dark when something whitish flashed up and hit the side of the car. I almost didn’t go back but it looked odd to me and I was curious. Going back I could see a small object in the middle of the lane that looked dead. Walking up it was a live saw whet …
The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain (Goodreads Reviews) I knew of it for decades but for some reason seemed always on the periphery of reading it. I downloaded a digital copy from a library site on whim, not expecting much. I read a couple of chapters in the middle and was surprised by the luxury of …
Fossil News
Superlative Vulture Fossil from the Late Pleistocene Imagine if it had been an ancient human. HT
Moa Guts?
Bald Haast’s eagle feasted on moa guts This new research supports the predator theory. Haast’s eagle talons were similar to those of today’s eagles, in particular Australia’s Wedge-tailed eagle, although they were much larger and more powerful. These similarities suggest that, like other eagles, Haast’s eagle used its talons to hunt. They still come down on the …
Cloudscape
“Riders of the Coyote Moon” 24 x 30 in Mark Maggiori I never heard of him before. He seems to have made a career out of these cloudscape pix. I like moon scenes but there is lots of artistic license in it. He is an imitator of others but that is nothing new in art.
The Horde
Why do Genghis Khan and nomads, more generally, so deeply upset the supporters of nation-states? First, the history of the Mongol Empire is a shared legacy that does not fit into narratives centred on monolingual, monoethnic and monoreligious communities. Second, nationalists have yet to accept that civilization is not necessarily a product of urban and …
Bird of Prey Shoes
Bird of Prey Shoes