Thomas Henry Kelly, Jr. was born May 15, 1927 in Mobile, Alabama. Tom Kelly has turned 99. I thought it was a 100 but either way he has had a long remarkable life and his hunting books are still some of the best.
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M-44 cyanide poison traps return?
The Trump administration has quietly opened the door to the resumed use of so-called “cyanide bombs” on Bureau of Land Management parcels across the country, according to an internal April 2026 memo. The memo shows that BLM has effectively abrogated a Biden-era ban on the deployment of the controversial devices on the agency’s land. M-44s, …
China in North America
It’s so bizarre as to how a piece of history gets marginalized and then forgotten. To early European explorers in North America it was a known fact that the Chinese had colonized the Pacific North Coast all the way to northern California. The Chinese called this territory Fushang and it was well supplied for …
A perfect story for legend. LOL
The fastest man-made objects ever created Speed isn’t just about racing cars—it’s about pushing the limits of physics itself The Parker Solar Probe leads the pack at an incredible 692,000 km/h (430,000 mph) as it dives closer to the Sun than any object in history Other mind-blowing speeds: Juno Spacecraft – 265,000 km/h Helios 2 …
Study uses microphones to eavesdrop on the secret lives of birds
The team used BirdNet, a machine learning tool, to identify birds in the recordings and verified recordings of American goshawks to understand how birds respond when a goshawk calls. According to the study, birds called and sang less after an American goshawk called, but where along the roughly 420-mile span of the Sierra Nevada the birds …
Caribou Struggles.
Big game species like ungulates have captured the imaginations of humans for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years. From the artists of the Lascaux Caves to modern hunters and naturalists, humans are drawn to their beauty, spectacle, and thrill of the chase. In North America, caribou stand apart as one of the continent’s …
The ancient bond between pigeons and people
Examination of pigeon bones from Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus indicates they were already semi-domesticated as early as c. 1400 BCE, pushing back direct evidence for pigeon domestication almost 1,000 years and challenging perceptions of the birds as opportunistic urban pests. Importantly, the earliest direct evidence for domesticated pigeons had previously come from …
Mystery Solved?
On a narrow island in eastern Canada battered by freezing winds, hundreds of gray seal pups lie dead every breeding season, bearing massive, oddly shaped wounds. The injuries start at their mouth and corkscrew down to their chest, tearing down to the bone but leaving the rest of the body intact. For years, scientists …
“(Smilodon and Homotherium) are believed to have coexisted with humans”
Folks been sending me a photo of a petroglyph (rock art) apparently found in Bahia, Brazil; it shows what at first glance could be interpreted as some sort of mammal with what might be long fangs or tusks pointing downwards, short pointed ears (?), a short tail, and what may or may not be …
The Três Picos State Park
I have not heard of this Three Peaks State Park in Brazil before but it is impressive. Another example of a world bigger than we imagine and so much of it you never hear of.