In a study that tracked the movement of beef cattle over two grazing seasons using virtual fencing, cattle wearing the specialized GPS collars stayed within set boundaries more than 99% of the time. High-tech collars keep cattle from straying Getting rid of fences would be a bonus.
Author: Sea Run
AZ and NM vegetation pictures needed.
Non-meme Sunday: If you live in the southwestern USA, my research team needs your help! (tldr; send me pictures of plants in Arizona and New Mexico, esp. from 1990–2005) Hi! My name is Caroline, and I’m a 4th year PhD student in the Ecology and Evolution program at the University of Montana. I study zoonotic …
Armored Catfish and the Amazon river
When a species gets tooled up like that it is living in a tough neighbour. Wade and Booth said the same thing about fish in the Congo River in their iconic book Somewhere Down the Crazy River. A superb map. The Mississippi River boasts over 130 bridges, and the Nile has around nine. But the …
What is real? What isn’t?
It’s a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization’s supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically proven this isn’t just unlikely—it’s impossible. Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation There is some relief in that. Being stuck …
10,000 BC
The map above shows a very rough estimate of the population of each continent in 10,000 BC. The numbers come form Our World In Data, which uses HYDE version 3.3. I would dearly love to know what the biosphere was like then. So much lost since.
Dogs and Humans
“It’s an amazing, enduring partnership and shows the sheer flexibility of the role dogs can play in our societies, far more than with any other domestic species.” Paleogenomics study shows humans and dogs spread across Eurasia together By applying cutting-edge shape analysis to hundreds of archaeological specimens spanning tens of thousands of years, researchers have …
Dodo Head.
I never heard of this before. Other dodo posts. I thought there were more and that Steve had a thing for them since they were pigeons. There is lots of hype online that I haven’t looked at that they are being cloned.
Morse Code?
Bees learn to read simple ‘Morse code’
A 40 pound maitake
Source Harvesting the largest mushroom of my life! A 40 pound maitake, also known as hen of the woods! Thank you Earth and thank you to my fellow forager Jeff, who took me to this joyous land of mushrooms. Steve would likely be into it since he posted about ‘shroom hunting before.
Spicomellus
Imagine a dinosaur that looked like a walking medieval weapon rack. That’s basically Spicomellus afer, the oldest-known ankylosaur ever discovered, recently unearthed in Morocco. And trust me, this guy makes every other armored dinosaur look underdressed for battle. Dating back over 165 million years, Spicomellus wasn’t some towering T. rex rival. Instead, it was a …