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about Natural world.
APHA Science Blog
News and updates from the Animal and Plant Health Agency on science.
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What happened at a canal in Uxbridge?
BLOG CONTAINS IMAGES OF ILL AND DECEASED BIRDS WHICH SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING In early October we were contacted by a concerned member of the Swan Support Group based in Thames Valley. An increasing …
By Hayley Wighton, 1,200 words
The Apiarist - Blog
Weekly posts on the science and practice of beekeeping. Bees, honey, swarms, bad backs, stings and just about everything else as well.
By David Evans.
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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
As I slurped my second - desperately needed - coffee on Wednesday morning I watched a covey of partridge percolate out of the field margin and delicately pick their way through the neatly drilled, shoulder-high …
By David (The Apiarist), 3,785 words
The Birdist
Birds and Birding.
By Nick Lund.
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New Book! Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works is out now!
I'm really proud to announce that my new book, Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works, is out now. This is a book that I would have devoured as a kid, as it makes critical connections …
Carnivorous Plants - Botanical Photography - aldrovanda.com
Field reports about carnivorous plants and botanical oddities in their native habitats. Photos of wild specimines of Drosera, Pinguicula, and Darlingtonia.
By Forbes Conrad.
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Stylidium debile in Cultivation
Léelo en español Years ago, I grew Stylidium debile in California. After a long period of not growing any carnivorous plants, a friend gave me this division, which just began to flower. Yes, yes, this …
By Forbes Conrad, 209 words
David Bradley
Science Communication since 1989.
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What is social media like these days?
Here’s a quick summary to explain the feels on the various social media as I see it: Twttr – Trolls, babebots, bigotry Threads – Engagement bait, passive-aggressive putdowns Facebook – Parochial whinging LinkedIn – Needy …
By David Bradley, 109 words
Fossil Huntress
Musings in natural history meant to captivate, educate & inspire. Deepen your world.
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HERMIT CRAB: REAL ESTATE TYCOONS OF THE FORESHORE
This little cutie is a hermit crab and he is wearing a temporary home borrowed from one of our mollusc friends. His body is a soft, squishy spiral that he eases into the perfect size …
By FossilHuntress, 80 words
Goat-O-Rama
Put some color in your herd!
By Nan Hassey, Phil Hassey.
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The Hazel Tree
by Jo Woolf.
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Back to the Garvellachs
Precious and fleeting, an autumn wander around these 'Isles of the Sea'
Julian Hoffman
Notes from Near and Far.
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The Theory and Practice of Rivers
This past spring, I was asked by the Society for the Protection of Prespa if I would be interested in photographing the rivers, streams and waterside forests of Prespa as part of a project called …
By julianhoffman, 69 words
Natural History Journal
Notes from a California Naturalist.
By Siera Nystrom.
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South Texas Birding: Lower Rio Grande Valley Thornscrub and Woodland
During the first week in April, Eric and I spent six amazing days birding in South Texas, starting in the McAllen area and ending on South Padre Island. One of the most famed birding destinations …
By Siera Nystrom, 1,794 words
The Panda’s Thumb
By Matt Young.
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Every Living Thing: book report
The cover is kind of "busy," but I shall try not to judge the book by its cover. The book is Every Living Thing, The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, by Jason …
By Matt Young, 1,169 words
Ramblings of a Naturalist
As an ecologist and biodiversity researcher and recorder, the author visits a wide range of rural and urban habitats mainly close to his home in Sedlescombe near Hastings, East Sussex, UK.
By Patrick Roper.
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A trip to Glen More, 1954
My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My …
By Patrick Roper, 1,563 words
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week | SV-POW!
All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access.
By Michael P. Taylor, Mathew J. Wedel, Darren Naish.
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Move over, All Yesterdays: It’s time for #MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArt, redux!
Back in 2013, John Conway was doing some paintings and Darren Naish was drawing lots of animals for a book. I chipped in to help with their artwork and some back and forth ensued. All …
By Mike Taylor, 1,126 words
Scientist Sees Squirrel
Seldom original. Often wrong. Occasionally interesting.
By Stephen Heard.
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Buffon’s eulogy, Pliny vs. Newton, and is science a big pile of facts?
A couple of months ago, I reviewed Jason Roberts’s new book Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life. It’s the story of two eighteen-century naturalists, Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis Leclerc, …
By ScientistSeesSquirrel, 69 words
Southern Rockies Nature Blog
Where Nature Meets Culture—Plus Wildfire, Dogs, Environmental News, and Writing with a Southern Rockies Perspective.
By Chas S. Clifton.
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How the Swiss Army Knife Will Hypnotise You
A few months ago, a veteran upland bird-hunter on Facebook asked people to list their favorite pocket knives. I have owned a few since I started carrying one at age 11 or whenever. Most popular …
By Chas S. Clifton, 297 words
Springwatch - BBC Blogs
Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch Blog. A place to talk UK Nature.
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Discover toads and how you can help them
Written by Cathy Robinson, nature and travel writer, for Naturehood at Earthwatch Europe Have you been lucky enough to spot a pair of copper-coloured eyes peeping out from a hidey hole this spring? If you …
By Earthwatch Europe, 833 words
Stephen Bodio
Notes from Tiger Country.
By Stephen Bodio, Libby Frishman-Bodio, John Burchard, Reid Farmer, Sea Run.
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Eagle hunters @ Altai, Mongolia.
Sept 2024 Eagle hunters @ Altai, Mongolia. Sony A1, 70-200 f4 oss ii. Julian Ngu Straight up tourist pandering bull.
Tetrapod Zoology
Discussion of all things tetrapod and vertebrate palaeontology, and many things not.
By Darren Naish.
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Post-Truthism, Brian J Ford’s Aquatic Dinosaurs, and the Fate of ‘Too Big To Walk’
Late in the afternoon of Friday November 8th, my paper ‘The response to and rejection of Brian Ford’s Too Big to Walk, a 21st century effort to reinstate the aquatic dinosaur hypothesis’ saw digital publication …
By Darren Naish, 1,171 words