“The evolutionary story here couldn’t be clearer,” Moore said. “Our data indicate that the SPD only evolves in birds that soar, and did so at least seven times independently across distantly related soaring lineages. So, whether you’re looking at a Western gull, a turkey vulture, a sooty shearwater, a bald eagle, or a brown pelican, …

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IMAGE: Photographer, @almcglashan, captures the moment a giant mako shark attacks a blue marlin that was being released boat-side⁠.⁠ Pelagic The Old Man and the Sea relived? William Faulkner’s 1952 Review of The Old Man and the Sea “Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us.” In the midcentury …

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This was taken in 2017 at Crescent Beach, Florida. It’s an Osprey with a hard head catfish with a fish. I called it the food chain. Anyway, I will post a mix of new and old. Greg Jowers is with Jay Valentine. More pix under the link.

  A dog chases a squirrel carrying a peanut at Ashbridges Bay Park on a sunny day in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 15, 2024.  Mert Alper Dervis / Anadolu / Getty Bond together by evolution.

  100 mph duck   Another fast duck.  

The best compliment I’ve received as a writer: “Suffused with the tang of sagebrush and the hush of snowy east coast woods, it reads like some wondrous hybrid of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff and Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac.” Helen Macdonald

   where the sun was positioned two million years in the past—and, with it, the heliosphere, and the rest of the solar system. They also mapped the path of the Local Ribbon of Cold Clouds system, a string of large, dense, very cold clouds mostly made of hydrogen atoms. Their simulations showed that one of the clouds …

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