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Today would have been Shirley’s one hundredth birthday! Family and friends gathered at the Thomsen Foundation to celebrate her. If you are not familiar with the late Shirley Lusk, read about her in the BRIT journal. Indeed Shirley was mentor to many of us. Furthermore you will find her name mentioned ten times in the…
Today I was checking nest boxes for Jeanne. Goodness was it a good morning! What a grand morning! Thanks Jeanne! NOAA Forecasts a Busy Hurricane Season For 2025. What’s Fueling It? Volcanoes Send Secret Signals Through Trees And NASA Satellites Can See Them NSF plan to slash ‘indirect’ science funding: will it stick? June 14,…
On the way home I made a quick stop at the LBJ NG to check on my friends. Indeed it was mite-y fine quick stop! Humpback Whales Can’t See as Well as Scientists Thought, and It Might Explain Why They Keep Getting Tangled in Fishing Gear New Discovery Suggests the Alphabet May Not Have Originated…
So I love to see new places. But like Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) there is no place like home. 🙂 With a little persuasion the Giant Swallowtail cat poked out their horns (osmeterium)! Oh yeah it is good to be back home! Science rewritten: Humpback whales give birth while still migrating Watch Vampire Bats Run…
We are back in North Texas. And what a trip we had! Here’s the wrap-up. Including a couple of movies that I was not able to share while we were in Alaska. On May 13th in Basket Bay the Orcas popped up! This was incredible! We had already seen the Humpbacked and Gray Whales. The…
The last day’s morning destination was the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness area to see another glacier, the Sawyer Glacier! Now we watched for the Harbor Seals that have been seen here. Check out Emily’s photos too. https://oregonbackyard.com/ DNA From the Jungle Floor Reveals Mating Mysteries of Endangered Muriquis A Mysterious Explosion of Color in Animals Has Lasted…
Lovely hike! Check out Emily’s photos too. https://oregonbackyard.com/ Fossil amphibians found in burrows where they waited for the next rainy season The Myxomycetes: Natures’s Quick Change Artists Proposed Rule: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants Let your voice be heard! Stand Up for Science! Our lives depend on it. Keep looking! The more you know, the more…
Check out Emily’s photos too. https://oregonbackyard.com/ Ancient Fossil Discovery Reveals That Early Humans Ate Elephants 300,000 Years Ago How Did Life Begin? Researchers Discover Game-Changing Clue Proposed Rule: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants Let your voice be heard! Stand Up for Science! Our lives depend on it. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you…
Lichens and mosses are so cool! Check out Emily’s photos too. https://oregonbackyard.com/ The Rise of The Dinosaurs Can Be Tracked in Their Fossilized Poop Solar superstorm in 664 BCE recorded in tree rings Proposed Rule: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants Let your voice be heard! Stand Up for Science! Our lives depend on it. Keep looking!…
More from Alaska below! It was really beautiful. And it was just us on this hike with two really talented naturalists. Check out Emily’s photos too. https://oregonbackyard.com/ Plant sex secrets: 150-million-year-old shrub unlocks flower reproductive evolution Mysterious Network of Canals From 4,000 Years Ago Predates The Maya Proposed Rule: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants…