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FOSSIL BIRD REMAINS FROM SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND 

Stemec suntokum, a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, BCWe all love the idea of discovering a new species—especially a fossil species lost to time. As romantic as it sounds, it happens more often than you think. I can think of more than a dozen new fossil species from my home province of British Columbia on Canada’s far western shores that have been named after people I know who

Arctic in full recharge, yet it stays cold 

 The Arctic breathes like a big Halloween monster.  In and out.  Now, it is sucking in air from all around, after it's huge party of spilling frozen air over everything.  However, we are still cold.That's because we have reached the point of zero heat energy in the north half.  That nasty pinprick hurricane has sucked out the last of Gulf ocean-water heat.