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cryptonature · 2 days
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Early in the process of writing my new book
about nature, awe, and mental health,
I titled the project Something in the Woods Loves You.
I honestly didn’t think that title
would survive rewrites and rounds of edits,
but it did. And I’m glad it did.
Something in the Woods Loves You.
That simple sentence is the heart
of what I feel beneath the trees
and what I want to pass on to readers.
I’m very proud of this book.
Visit the link in my bio for more details/preorder.
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hawkpartys · 13 hours
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lichenaday · 13 hours
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Xanthoria calcicola
This foliose lichen grows on calcareous rock and stone work (and occasionally dusty trees) in eutrophic, well-lit, mild-temperate and costal regions of Europe and the Mediterranean. It has a yellow-orange to dark orange foliose thallus forming pleated lobes growing in large rosettes up to 20 cm in diameter. The center of the rosettes are covered in knobbly warts and granular isidia, and it only rarely produces apothecia. The presence of these isidia and the lack of apothecia is the best way to distinguish this lichen from the very similar looking X. parietina which is a lot more common and often grows on bark.
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It's been. That's about all I can say. In the two weeks since I turned in the completed manuscript of The Everyday Naturalist to the publisher, I have been to Portland both weekends for teaching and tours, written a bunch of shorter-form pieces, AND compiled all the numbers and paperwork for my taxes, which is a very complicated process given that I'm self-employed and doing a bunch of different things for a living. And my to-do list is still super full for the next couple of weeks as I try to get everything done that needs to be done before I head out on the road for Missouri again.
But, like this stream violet (Viola glabella), I am emerging from under all of the detritus into a new spring day. I'm incredibly fortunate that the bulk of what I am busy with is made of all things that I love doing, and that there's enough of it to keep me afloat. And I have some great plans as the year continues to unfold, so keep your spring peepers on this space!
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delsolsasha · 2 months
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TS4 Herbalist LookBook
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the cold weather always inspires me to play my cozy saves🍃☕enjoy the links
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thank you to all of the very amazing cc creators | @ebonixsims | @b0t0xbrat | @charonlee | @whoopssim | @arethabee | @kikovanitysimmer | @tinasims | @gorillax3-cc | @jius-sims | ~ DelSolSasha
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wildlifetracker · 2 months
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Rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, at Monterey Bay aquarium
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afrodesiacworldwide · 28 days
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foreverher1 · 5 months
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She looks amazing!
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incivesanci · 4 months
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seviyor gibi bakmıştı.
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blueiskewl · 4 months
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Gigantic Skull of Prehistoric Sea Monster Found on England’s ‘Jurassic Coast’
The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.
Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed fossil is about 150 million years old, almost 3 million years younger than any other pliosaur find. Researchers are analyzing the specimen to determine whether it could even be a species new to science.
Originally spotted in spring 2022, the fossil, along with its complicated excavation and ongoing scientific investigation, are now detailed in the upcoming BBC documentary “Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster,” presented by legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, that will air February 14 on PBS.
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Such was the enormous size of the carnivorous marine reptile that the skull, excavated from a cliff along Dorset’s “Jurassic Coast,” is almost 2 meters (6.6 feet) long. In its fossilized form, the specimen weighs over half a metric ton. Pliosaurs species could grow to 15 meters (50 feet) in length, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The fossil was buried deep in the cliff, about 11 meters (36 feet) above the ground and 15 meters (49 feet) down the cliff, local paleontologist Steve Etches, who helped uncover it, said in a video call.
Extracting it proved a perilous task, one fraught with danger as a crew raced against the clock during a window of good weather before summer storms closed in and the cliff eroded, possibly taking the rare and significant fossil with it.
Etches first learned of the fossil’s existence when his friend Philip Jacobs called him after coming across the pliosaur’s snout on the beach. Right from the start, they were “quite excited, because its jaws closed together which indicates (the fossil) is complete,” Etches said.
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After using drones to map the cliff and identify the rest of the pliosaur’s precise position, Etches and his team embarked on a three-week operation, chiseling into the cliff while suspended in midair.
“It’s a miracle we got it out,” he said, “because we had one last day to get this thing out, which we did at 9:30 p.m.”
Etches took on the task of painstakingly restoring the skull. There was a time he found “very disillusioning” as the mud, and bone, had cracked, but “over the following days and weeks, it was a case of …, like a jigsaw, putting it all back. It took a long time but every bit of bone we got back in.”
It’s a “freak of nature” that this fossil remains in such good condition, Etches added. “It died in the right environment, there was a lot of sedimentation … so when it died and went down to the seafloor, it got buried quite quickly.”
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Fearsome top predator of the seas
The nearly intact fossil illuminates the characteristics that made the pliosaur a truly fearsome predator, hunting prey such as the dolphinlike ichthyosaur. The apex predator with huge razor-sharp teeth used a variety of senses, including sensory pits still visible on its skull that may have allowed it to detect changes in water pressure, according to the documentary.
The pliosaur had a bite twice as powerful as a saltwater crocodile, which has the world’s most powerful jaws today, according to Emily Rayfield, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who appeared in the documentary. The prehistoric marine predator would have been able to cut into a car, she said.
Andre Rowe, a postdoctoral research associate of paleobiology at the University of Bristol, added that “the animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space.”
By Issy Ronald.
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cryptonature · 2 days
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A short excerpt about making meaning from my new book: Something in the Woods Loves You.
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hawkpartys · 2 days
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i still think Haast's Eagle should have been called the Prometheus Eagle, since it was the only bird of prey that predated on humans. do you guys understand my vision
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lichenaday · 3 days
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Calicium salicinum
So we recently went on a lichen collecting trip and got some pin lichens! These little teeny-tiny guys are so hard to spot, but we found some growing on dead wood and logs used for building, and were able to gather some bits of wood that had peeled off with age. So I sat down to ID them and after nearly 2 hours, all I knew was that there were at least 2 genera of pin lichens on just one small piece of bark . . . *sigh* I love you lichens, but sometimes you exhaust me. C. salicinum can be identified by its immersed, inapparent thallus, brown pruina on the bottom of the stalked apothecial exciples, and its spores with spiral ornamentation. And I *think* it is one of the species we collected. Further testing needed. It can be found growing on deciduous trees and lignum in the montane belt to subtropics of Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
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inspectricemarlo · 4 months
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Some fishes !
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outdoor-naked-fun · 3 months
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nudismhunter · 9 months
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