These mini hoodoos form on Sable Island when wet sand freezes, then strong winds erode away the drier sand. The beautiful sand sculptures don’t last long. In a few hours or days, they’re eroded by airborne sand, or they collapse. Sable Island National Park Reserve Learn more about Sable Island: https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ns/sable S. Medill Speaking of Sable, …
Mysterious Kestrel decline
North America’s smallest falcon, the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), has declined across the continent since the 1970s, yet the causes continue to stump raptor biologists. A new study published in the Journal of Raptor Research adds a piece to the puzzle with the discovery that in the Northeast, where declines are most alarming, fledglings demonstrate a relatively high survival …
Dire Wolves?
OMG it happened! The Direwolf is back. Two beautiful and healthy white Direwolves called Reamus and Romulus were born in October 2024 after being De-Extincted by Colossal Biosciences who are the most exciting company on the forefront of conservation and the restoration of animals that us humans have destroyed. The two boys are currently living …
Meet Peter the Spanish Pigeon!
Meet Peter the Spanish Pigeon! A week ago, as Kristina from Parks Canada was wandering in Sable Island National Park Reserve, she came across a pigeon. You may not think that a pigeon is an unusual thing for a park employee to find, but there were two things that were unusual about this pigeon. First, …
Dry in NM, TX Ranches
America’s Drunkest & Driest Counties Based On Excessive Drinking The Bible Belt and Mormon Utah I get but NM is less clear. The Biggest Private Ranches in Texas The Largest is twice the size of London. About 1300 square miles. Not as big in relation to TX as I thought but still huge.
Walmart? University of Mexico?
I bet you didn’t know that the University of Mexico was the largest employer. Hahaha! Credit: Eric Pallidini Member of New Mexico History/Albuquerque Reminiscin
The Tintignac Carnyx
Echoes of the Iron Age: The Tintignac Carnyx—A Snarling Boar’s Call to Battle.” In 2004, archaeologists made a remarkable discovery at the ancient site of Tintignac in France: a nearly complete carnyx, a ceremonial war horn used by the Iron Age Celts. Dating back to the 1st century BCE, this intricately crafted instrument, shaped like …
Reading is in Trouble?
Most of our students are functionally illiterate. This is not a joke. By “functionally illiterate” I mean “unable to read and comprehend adult novels by people like Barbara Kingsolver, Colson Whitehead, and Richard Powers.” I picked those three authors because they are all recent Pulitzer Prize winners, an objective standard of “serious adult novel.” Furthermore, …
Pigeons and High End Math
When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement — and its inverse — have deep connections to many areas of math and computer science. They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but for computer scientists, two birds in a hole are better still. That’s …
Bee species diversity in each of the six bee families found in Utah.
Utah State University biologists provide a bee species checklist for Utah, an area predicted to have some of the highest bee species richness in the United States. Our findings document 1167 described bee species in the state of Utah, the richest state bee fauna yet documented in North America. MDPI: Insects https://tinyurl.com/5n8ubakx Hymenoptera Research I was amazed …