HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I love these kind of bio quest stories. The blog is a good one on west coast BC nature, hikes, etc.
First Day of Fall
A park site pic The Aspy valley in Northern Cape Breton in a few weeks. I was at this spot in the spring, a few years ago. It would be good to be there now. Source There are some good moose up there. This is one from this month. Forty years ago budworm set back …
Who? What?
Snap! Richards memes are everywhere now but they are good for a laugh. Fifteen years ago, a buddy saw a concert and was very impressed with Jagger’s vitality at his age. Richards, however, “was the resuscitated corpse I expected.” I laughed and it was well before the flood of memes, lately. Of course, this …
The Deccan Traps post update
The Deccan Traps post Source of the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous They claim clear evidence that it was not the Deccan Traps but a meteor. We will see. These things can be refuted for years.
Ancient-native-americans-were-among-world-s-first-coppersmiths
native-americans-were-among-world-s-first-coppersmiths I saw the article above and laughed. It reminded me of this TV psuedo doc, Great Lakes Copper Heist. The premise was that since copper was mined by First Nations peoples they were trading it to ancient Greeks, who were rowing across the Atlantic and into the Great Lakes for it. Natives were not …
complete-birds-of-the-world
Book : complete-birds-of-the-world An ambitious book.
Cougar Origins
Cougars (Puma concolor) Control Feral Horse (Equus caballus) Populations in Some Environments “Incidentally, the Pleistocene cougars that lived in North America were not directly ancestral to cougars that live on this continent now. They were an extinct ecomorph that grew slightly larger than modern cougars and may have had spotted fur. According to genetic evidence, …
Life-sized camel carvings
Pic Source life-sized-camel-northern-arabia “the data indicates that the sculptures were made with stone tools during the 6th millennium BCE.” The camel thing is interesting as is this superb giraffe rock art. From facebook but I forget the context . West african? Ancient?
DNA Advances
DNA Advance This technique is about a hundred times faster than current state-of-the-art approaches and uses one-fifth the resources. Scientists are vacuuming eDNA from the air Analyzing DNA in soil could be an effective way of tracking animals I quess, you could see these coming but it is still remarkable. It reminds me of Gattaca, …
Ranch Land Eco Innovations
Pic for attention. Ranch Land Eco Innovations A really good update on it. Despite the title, not much to do with bison.