This is the Footballer Coral Trout, named after its resemblance to a football player’s uniform. Coral Trout is one of the most delicious tasting and beautiful reef fish of Australia This Coral Trout has two distinct colour phases: the “footballer phase” which is whitish with black saddles, a yellow caudal peduncle and yellow fins, and a …
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Humpie from Hell
Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)aka Humpies Humpies from hell. Apparently, the term arose with Ray Troll but I first saw it as a story in the above. It was a phrase that stuck with me. This fish has the most exaggerated hump I have ever seen. If it is real and not AI it is something. The hump serves …
Chilcotin
Not the huge flash flood feared but still plenty impressive. prior post
Greenland was Green.
My alma mater does good. I mentioned thus before that Greenland was a lot warmer two million years ago. In 1993, drillers at the summit completed the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 ice core, or GISP2, nicknamed the two-mile time machine. The seeds, twigs and spores we found came from a few inches of soil …
Sci-Fi couldn’t outdo it.
It looks like a sand mushroom but it is actually a rare desert plant native to specific areas, in the Sonoran Desert. This plant is also parasitic, which has negative connotations but studies have shown that this plant can actually share water with other plants in times of drought. The plant is commonly known as …
Bookworm
A bookworm sign outside a Dutch bookshop. BTW, the French term is “library rat” and the Greek “book eater”. Irena Karafilly I thought you all may appreciate this beaut. Charise’s Pieces Possible AI or a law library as claimed. Not the largest but nice. The Old Cincinnati Library before being demolished, 1874-1955. Built in 1874, …
Big ‘But
This halibut was caught in a salmon seine in the early 1950’s in Chignik, AK. It was 11 foot, 3 inches long and Alaska Fish & Game estimated it to weigh near 900 lbs. They didn’t have a scale large enough to weigh this fish. It was caught by Emmitt Wood and Simeon Petticoft “after …
Bearly Advice?
Misleading the public to feed bears? You have to accept risk with wild predator animals.
Lost Worlds
Good News, Bad News
The number of breeding pairs of peregrine falcons, the world’s fastest animal, has doubled during a 15-year-long collaborative recovery plan involving climbers, the National Park Service and Yosemite Conservancy, the park announced on July 31. This spring, there were 17 breeding pairs in the Park, up from only eight pairs in 2009. A total of …