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I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the climate crisis and how it’s part of a larger collapse of ecosystems, like how insect populations in Germany have declined by 75% in the last quarter century, how populations of large predatory fish have declined by 90% in the last century, how the Amazon is nearing a tipping point where it may cease to be a jungle, and so on. Did you hear about the UK government report on ecosystem collapse? It was created not only by the environment department…

Almost five years ago, I posted a photo of this Milo tree (here). It had been planted as a shade tree and there was a picnic table beside it. However, the tree had grown with a 90° bend, a result of the strong winds that blow here. A few days ago, I went for a walk on the coast there, for the first time in ages, and this is what I saw. I’m assuming the tree was pruned like this in the hope that new growth would be in a more normal direction. I doubt that will happen, though the winds aren’t as…

Norellraptor barsboldiWe are accustomed to imagining the Mesozoic through its giants: enormous herbivores shaking the ground and predators with teeth the size of bananas. Yet some of the most revealing discoveries arrive on a much smaller scale.While I imagine it would go horribly wrong, I still cannot get over the charm of this cutie and the wonderfully disarming notion of a dinosaur small

Desert Brat 2026-10-13 hell rules

• 4-star hike • 2 mile part-loop • Easy | Gain 70 feet • Wells, ME | Maine . Wetlands at the Wells Preserve at Laudholm. The Wells Reserve at Laudholm is a National Estuarine Research Reserve on the southern Maine coast, headquartered at historic Laudholm Farm. Reserve staff maintain the trails, boardwalks, and buildings. They also manage the surrounding woodlands, wetlands, dunes, and grasslands, and they run educational and research programs. Note that dogs and bicycles are not permitted on…

Asian longhorned tick dorsal (top), from Wikimedia 13 October 2026 This morning the Post-Gazette highlighted a story by Mary Ann Thomas about a new tick in town whose method of reproduction explodes like a bomb. In late summer and early fall, each cluster of Asian longhorned eggs hatches 2000 nymphs that swarm on the nearest warm-blooded animal — cattle, deer, dogs, and you! (See Post-Gazette: As longhorned tick populations soar in Allegheny County, ‘larval bombs’ surprise residents.) I first…

a photo by G. Murray Levick of a fronting penguin, from the front of his book, via “The first Adélie penguins arrived at the Ridley Beach rookery, Cape Adare, on October 13,” Dr. G. Murray Levick recorded in his observation diary in the Southern Summer of 1911. Levick was the staff surgeon-turned-zoologist on Robert Scott’s Terra Nova British Antarctic Expedition, one of six men who stayed to study the coast. His findings were published in 1914 as Antarctic Penguins: A Study of their Social…