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
Back to the bottomland outing! It was a good morning for the slime molds so far! Darwinâs Fear Was Unjustified: New Study Confirms Evolution Despite Fossil Gaps We May Have Found Where Modern Humans And Neanderthals Became One See the Wonders of Bird Engineering in These Photos of Intricate Nests Keep looking! The more you…
Continuing on with the hunt for fungi! Onward we rambled! The Big City Is Vibrant. Birds There Might Be Getting Less So. A Distant Spacecraft Has Confirmed That Earth Is Habitable Survival of the Smartest: Cognitive Skills Linked to Longer Lifespan in Chickadees Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the…
On September 10th, Jeanne joined up with me for a “fun gals” outing. I still had an itch for fungi (fun-guy). đ Off we headed! Indeed the fun-gals and fungi (fun-guy) were off to a good start! Scientists Discover Strange Ancient Creature That Resembles a Durian Fruit Do Marine Animals Need Wildlife Bridges, Too? Keep…
Now it was time to circle back towards the car. So it pays to get down close to find some really cool insects! Donât Miss Septemberâs Sky Show: The Harvest Moon Eclipse Famed Pacific islandâs population âcrashâ debunked by ancient DNA Ig Nobel prize: Scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their anuses receive award…
Continuing on with for my search for fungi in the woodland bottom! More tomorrow from the woodland bottom! Rock Used as Doorstop For Decades Turns Out to Be Worth Over $1 Million Underwater spy: How herring fish farts caused confusion during Cold War These Fish Transformed Their Dorsal Fins Into Taste Buds Keep looking! The…
More from the woodland bottom that is, from the LBJ NG. Still searching for fungus. Love the fungi! Meet The Worldâs Oldest FishâPresumed Extinct For 60 Million Years, Then Rediscovered In A Small Fishing Town Yukon gold miners are unearthing mummified ancient creatures and truckloads of fossils from the Ice Age. Take a look. Which…
So a couple of days ago I found a bumblebee. No big news there right? Well, this one was different than I had ever noticed before! But wait you are asking? What is the breaking news? Here it comes! But wait there is more! Having the above one on the 9th, I wondered if I…
Sometimes it just doesn’t work in your favor. However that is what makes it so fun, never knowing if you will get the target or not. It was fairly small. And it was slightly smaller than the usual Daddy Shortlegs. It belongs in the suborder of Armoured Harvestmen (Laniatores) and the family of Pied Harvestman (Cosmetidae). There…
Continuing on with Sunday’s outing. Breaking Cognitive Boundaries: Groundbreaking Study Finds Monkeys Use âNamesâ To Communicate Taxonomy research in Australia reveals 750 unique species in 2023 ‘Ice bucket challenge’ reveals that bacteria can anticipate the seasons Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know