Author: Sea Run

Beagles redeemed for the prior post.    

  Source facebook Lots of unexpected things here. The harpy holds its own with griz. The raven was a surprise.  

Tree Height Map Source The accuracy is not perfect but it may be interesting. At some point, this tech is going to be able to monitor every tree in the world. Roughly 3 trillion trees.  

Beagle, for sale, going cheap.

  Source Our boy in the middle. Meg at the top.   Source   I am seeing Livyatan everywhere lately. I first heard of it in a tv doc years ago when its fossils were new in Peru. Since then it appears it has become an extreme apex predator badass symbol for the public. It …

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  East meets West This being a western site I imagine there is interest in elk. What is different here is this is an elk in PA. Coal mines stripped off the tops of mountains and grass was encouraged. Elk were added later  for better or worse reasons. I knew it was a thing there …

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the Deccan Traps would be a firecracker in comparison   But that future tectonic divorce seems insignificant when you consider the catastrophe that may befall the continent’s southern tip. The team estimates that, in tens of millions of years, a blob of nightmarishly gargantuan proportions will pinch off from the central cusp and rise to …

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Grassland Griz The general trend of grizzly populations across Alberta is considered stable to increasing, so the expansion of bears eastward is not surprising. Andrea Morehouse, the Waterton Biosphere Reserve Carnivores and Communities Program Science Lead, has been monitoring these bears. When asked if the bears are establishing territories in the grasslands or just wandering …

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  I am almost juiced enough to want to go over there for those. As far as I know, PEI and NS have the only true sea run rainbows in the east.

Source Titanis walleri, a genus of flightless bird from early Pliocene to early Pleistocene North America. They had an estimated length of about 2 m. by Jaime Chirinos  I am going to have to control my weakness for posting these guys.