Welcome to my nature blog! I love sharing my photos of North Texas! I will keep looking out and hope you do too.
Comments welcome. Thank you, Mary
So I will start off with last night’s bat survey. Then concluding at Hart’s Creek. Now switching to today, back at home. Moving on again. And this is that for today! We Thought These Animals Were Silent. Scientists Just Found Their Voices 125-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers Reveal Traces of Ancient Proteins Drier savannas, grasslands store more…
The sale of the Garnett Preserve is set to close this Thursday. So Jeanne and I made one last visit on Friday (Sept. 29th). Sigh. 🙁 By noon we were getting hot and hungry. I will let you guess where we headed next. 😉 DNA traces found in 6 million-year-old sea turtle fossil Crocodiles Seen…
Here is the conclusion of last Thursday’s (21st) outing. Why Do Some Bees Dig? Thanks Jeanne! Octopuses could get the same protections as mice and monkeys thanks to a growing body of evidence that suggests they feel pain Ghostly Footage of a Dumbo Octopus Captured 8,000 Feet Below The Ocean Keep looking! The more you…
Two bridges down. The third bridge/creek was pretty great too! Just a few more photos tomorrow will conclude this outing. So I hope the cooler weather is close behind! Uniquely preserved gut contents illuminate trilobite palaeophysiology Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
We had three bridges to check. Today will be the second bridge we investigated. If earthworms were a country, they’d be the world’s fourth largest producer of grain Curious Canine in Brazil Turns Out to Be a First-of-Its-Kind Hybrid Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the…
Our hopes were high that we would find good stuff up the creek. And of course you know we did. 🙂 This was the first bridge finds. So yes, more creeks/bridges tomorrow. Stunning New Species of Tarantula Shimmers Like an Electric-Blue Jewel Biden Administration Commits $200 Million to Help Reintroduce Salmon in Columbia River Flowers…
For years I have drove over these bridges. Always thinking I should investigate these creeks. Well, the day had come! Jeanne found a safe place for us to park off the road. And let the exploring begin! Indeed we were just getting started! Thus tomorrow’s post will continue down the creek. Leonardo da Vinci Was…
The next stop was one of Shirley’s monitoring locations. Stealing information from host plants: How the parasitic dodder plant flowers Parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh—it’s also an extreme example of genome shrinkage Wild Elephants Seem to Have Been Domesticated, But Not by Humans Keep looking! The more you know, the…