Tag Archives: wildlife
links for 2010-03-15: Red Squirrels
POV – Nutkin's Last Stand | PBS Eccentric northerners on a mission to keep the Greys at bay. Weird racist undertones. (via @bengoldacre) (tags: squirrels documentary PBS environment)
Introducing Indohyus
The land-based ancestor of whales : Nature News The teeth hint that the wading creature still preferred terrestrial plants over fish, indicating that it probably took to water to get away from predators rather than in search of food. (via … more…
Haeckel’s Problematical Phylogeny
I’ve had the beginnnings of this post hanging around backstage here since the early summer. Today, the handsome cephalopod illustration above showed up on FFFF, and so (in the absence of any compelling alternative) tonight, Ernst Haeckel, this is your … more…
links for 2007-12-05: daily coyote
The Daily Coyote Shreve Stockton and her cat are raising an orphaned baby coyote in a log cabin in Wyoming. Frequent updates and lots of pictures, many of them quite insufferably cute… (via J-Walk) (tags: coyote wildlife Wyoming)
“Mushroom Faking” by Dexter Petley
From Caught By The River, which is new to me: Seasons have become increasingly meaningless. Weather patterns within very localised habitats are the key to mushroom knowledge, and the resulting forest-craft is no different to water-craft. I learned this one … more…
Walrus on Disco Island!
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Over and out from tagged walruses Eight walruses were tagged in April, in the hope of discovering where they spent the summer months. Most of the trackers stopped working early on, and now the last … more…
The exclusion zone
Dan McMillan, Shipeliki school room, 1995 A most Ballardian photostream arising from eleven visits to the depopulated region surrounding the remains of Chernobyl. (via wood s lot) [I’ve got myself bogged down in a long post that’s still far from … more…
Red Kites at Gigrin Farm
This is not a huge distance from where I spent ten years; I was about 25 miles further west. There were red kites nesting nearby, and I used to see them all the time, but it’s exhilerating to see them … more…
Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers!
Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers! Oh yes! A handsome collection, being a side-dish of the rather wonderful and previously unsuspected (by me, at any rate) octopus blog, Octopia. This cover particularly caught my eye, despite that the perspective and scale are … more…
Caddis fly ordinaire
Pictures of Herbert Hubert Duprat’s Caddis fly jewellry have been making the rounds of the blogs again recently. Enthusiasm was onto this, ooh, years and years ago, but just this afternoon, whilst flicking idly through another volume of The Wonderland … more…