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Thursday, 02 February 2023

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PORPOISE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: K'ULUT'A

ARCHEA [18:05:00]

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Dall's PorpoiseThese delightfully friendly and super smart fellows are Dall's porpoise. In the Kwak̓wala language of the Kwakiutl or Kwakwaka'wakw, speakers of Kwak'wala, of the Pacific Northwest, a blowhole is known as a ka̱'was, whether on a dolphin (porpoise) or whale and a porpoise is known as a k̓ulut̕a. In the Pacific Northwest, we see many of their kind — the shy, blunt-nosed

California dreaming

Ontario-geofish [17:19:00]

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About 80% that the storms start up again. Cold air is shoving down the ocean plumes. Looks like a big sequence coming

Soil organisms are cuter than penguins!

polar soils blog [17:08:00]

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Today we spent some time inspecting moss species at one of our main research sites. This is a great way to see some of the soil organisms that we study! For our experiments, we extract the organisms from the [...]

Australia's Prehistoric Giant Eggs

Geology in the West Country [13:44:00]

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Australia's Prehistoric Giant Eggs I didn't know it was a controversy, but it has now been settled! In the 1980s people started finding large eggs, and fragments of eggs in eroding sand dunes in the centre [...]

STEMEC SUNTOCUM: FOSSILS NEAR VICTORIA

ARCHEA [07:11:00]

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Stemec suntokum, Sooke FormationThe diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum, a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada.We all dream of finding new species, and new fossil species in [...]

COP27 and Its Outcomes for Kyrgyzstan

State of the Planet [15:23:55]

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A Kyrgyz journalist reflects on COP27 and its results for

Gone into Rapture

Koprolitos [12:07:00]

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Creada en 2013 por el dibujante de cómics Hugo Tamzarian, Gone Into Rapture es un webcómic de humor negro que trata temas tan diferentes y controvertidos como los personajes de Disney, la política, la [...]

Leaf Rolling Weevil Fossil

Louisville Area Fossils [06:41:00]

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The image shows a snout beetle or leaf rolling weevil insect fossil of the Order Coleoptera, Family Curculionidae found in the Florissant Formation of Teller County, Colorado, USA. It dates to the Eocene [...]