Many of you had questions after we shared our decade-long study on King Cobras.We have created a simple habitat distribution map with visuals to help explain our groundbreaking work in simple terms.Our research has led to significant taxonomic revisions within the Ophiophagus genus:1. We have redefined Ophiophagus hannah, limiting it to populations from eastern Pakistan, …
Army & Navy
Army & Navy A&D 12/65, 30″ 1898 (Webley&Scott) Morten Sundkøien A friend has one. It was the most dynamic shotgun I ever had I my hands on. A friend of his was a great shot and wanted to use it in Scotland because, “I never miss with it.”
Should be Handy
Making an invisible electric wire: Guiding electricity with sound by University of Helsinki
Public Art Gator
Mural in Atlanta, Georgia by street artist “ROA.” “ROA works directly on the building, foregoing sketches and projections, and uses the architecture to inform the ways he paints birds, rodents, and other native creatures. Captivated by anatomy, the artist attempts to animate his paintings, giving energy and life to species often disregarded by humans. “Exploration …
Dogs sniff oil under ice.
Meet Poppy, an oil spill-sniffing springer spaniel More Heard this on the radio Tuesday. Pretty cool.
Driftless
The Driftless Area refers to the hilly landscape topography of southwestern Wisconsin. This area was left untouched by the last glacier that covered most of Wisconsin, resulting in its hillier and more rugged features. It is without the “drift” left by glaciers so it is “driftless.”About 15,000 years ago, and several times during preceding …
Dog Button Boards
The first I have heard of this.
Fish Wallets
Some of my leather wallets made entirely by hand, without the use of machines. Kamil Lukasczyk These are nice and a wallet being with me all the time it is justifiable vs a lot of other things.
Don’t tell RFK Jr
Before refrigerators existed, people would preserve products that needed to be kept cold, such as milk, by putting frogs in them. In the past, each community had its own method of preservation. The ancient Russian and Finnish communities found a magnificent and very clever solution to this milk preservation: Throwing brown frogs called ‘Rana temporaria’ …
A Nice Piece.
Wolves attacking a polar bear, carved from a 24-inch whale vertebra by an unidentified Inuit artist. James Hutcheson Dogs are more likely than wolves. Bob Kuhn 1920 – 2007 Polar Bear with Sled Dogs acrylic on board 16.5 × 23.25 inches signed lower left